Print Issue: 2019

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Commentary & Opinions

From the Executive Director: Better Americans for a Greater America

By David Inoue

November 8, 2019

If there is one thing that all Americans today can agree upon in these especially divisive times, it is the…
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Military & Veterans

JAVA to Sponsor Day of Affirmation for Nisei Soldiers

By Gerald Yamada

November 8, 2019

July 15 will forever commemorate the legacy created by Japanese American who served in the U.S. military World War II.…
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Community

We Are Not Alone: NY/SC @ COPANI 2019

By Kota Mizutani

October 25, 2019

JACL participates in the 20th biennial conference that welcomed participants from 13 different countries throughout North and South America, as…
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Community

From the Beginning

By Patti Hirahara

October 25, 2019

How a call for minority family scrapbooks turned into a full-scale telling of the Anaheim Japanese pioneer story By Patti…
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Arts & Entertainment

‘And Then They Came for Us’ Screens at the Pangea World Theater

By Cheryl Hirata-Dulas

October 25, 2019

By Cheryl Hirata-Dulas Pangea World Theater and JACL’s Twin Cities chapter partnered to screen Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider’s timely…
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Features

‘I Am an American’

By Patti Hirahara

October 25, 2019

O.K. Grocery in Anaheim (Photo: Courtesy of Patti Hirahara) The ‘I Am an American: Japanese Incarceration in a Time of…
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Commentary & Opinions

Legal-Ease: An Attorney’s Perspective: Illegal Nursing Home Evictions

By Judd Matsunaga

October 25, 2019

This is a follow-up article to the “Getting Old Is Not for Sissies” article (Pacific Citizen, June 28-July 11, 2019)…
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Aizumi

A Mother’s Take: A Buddhist Mother Finds Her Light

By Marsha Aizumi

October 25, 2019

Sometimes the stories in my head are so consuming that I can’t hear a perspective different than what is rattling…
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Incarceration & Redress

Rep. Jared Huffman Introduces Bill to Rename California Courthouse in Honor of Judge Louis Goodman, Supporter of Japanese Americans in WWII

By JACL National

October 25, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Jared Huffman of California’s 2nd District, introduced a bill Oct. 21 to rename federal courthouse in…
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Community

JACL Welcomes New Membership Coordinator Phillip Ozaki

By JACL National

October 25, 2019

Phillip Ozaki has rejoined JACL as its membership coordinator in the organization’s San Francisco headquarters office, effective immediately. Ozaki is…
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AARP

Reimagine Everything: Retail Drug Prices Have Increased Faster Than Inflation for at Least 12 Straight Years

By Ron Mori

October 11, 2019

A recently released AARP Public Policy Institute report shows that retail prices for a combined set of 754 widely used…
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Hold These Truths’ to Make Its International Debut

October 11, 2019

The acclaimed play is making its debut in Vancouver, B.C. Compelling, powerful and undeniably moving, Jeanne Sakata’s “Hold These Truths”…
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Features

JACL Lauds Takei — and Vice Versa — at San Diego Banquet

By P.C. Staff

October 11, 2019

The chapter also celebrates JACL’s 90th anniversary. By P.C. Staff On the evening that the San Diego chapter of the…
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Commentary & Opinions

Reflections: Resilience, Remembrance, Resolve, Resistance … and Even Reconciliation?

By Laurie Shigekuni

October 11, 2019

My family has deep roots with the JACL. In fact, my great-grand uncle, Tom Okawara, was one of the founding…
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National

Census Bureau Urges Asian American Communities to Shape Their Future

October 11, 2019

A new campaign is launched to ensure that Asian Americans respond and are counted in 2020. SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. —…
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Community

JACCC Appoints Patricia M. Wyatt as New President and CEO

October 11, 2019

Following an extensive national search, the management and development executive assumed her position on Sept. 23. LOS ANGELES — The…
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