Print Issue: 2025

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Features

Seabrook Obon
Celebrates 80th Anniversary

By Rob Buscher

August 22, 2025

The annual festival highlights its meaningful purpose — it’s all about community, legacy, culture and resilience. By Rob Buscher, P.C. Contributor…
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Features

Peace Begins With Us

By Darrell Miho

August 22, 2025

Three children pray at the Cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Park on Aug. 12, 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima…
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Community

Nisei Week’s Fantastic Four

By George Toshio Johnston

August 22, 2025

Foundation’s Pioneer Spirit Award luncheon offers kansha. By George Toshio Johnston, P.C. Senior Editor The 83rd Nisei Week Japanese Festival was…
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Commentary & Opinions

Reflections: Commemorating 80 Years Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Open Letter to Japanese Canadians

By Maya Tali

August 22, 2025

‘The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe.’ — James Baldwin Japanese Canadians are…
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Community

Kansha Culmination 2025

By Amy Do

August 22, 2025

Despite challenges, JACL Chicago’s program celebrates intersectional solidarity. By Amy Do JACL Chicago’s Kansha Project held its 14th annual Culmination…
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Commentary & Opinions

Legal-Ease An Attorney’s Perspective: What Is Dehydration???

By Judd Matsunaga

August 22, 2025

You’ve probably heard that the human body is made up of over 70 percent water. Water is your body’s principal…
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Commentary & Opinions

Reflections: Brothers in Silence and Strength: Japanese American Sansei Vietnam Veterans

By David Miyoshi

August 22, 2025

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the Nisei Week Foundation recently awarded its…
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Community

Silicon Valley JACL Launches Banned Book Club

By Silicon Valley JACL

August 22, 2025

The chapter utilizes its $1,000 Legacy Fund Opportunity Grant to engage community members. By Silicon Valley JACL Silicon Valley JACL…
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JACL

JACL Denounces Border Patrol Presence at Gov. Newsom Event

By P.C. Staff

August 15, 2025

‘Outrage’ over ‘attempt to intimidate’ Calif. governor’s news conference at JANM. By P.C. Staff The Japanese American Citizens League issued…
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National

News Briefs

August 8, 2025

DOJ Announces Arrests of 2 Chinese Nationals for Illegal Chip Exports Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, Calif., and Shiwei Yang,…
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Community

JACLers Take Pilgrimage to N.M. Memorial

By P.C. Staff

August 8, 2025

Some 4,555 men of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated near Santa Fe during World War II. A group of JACLers traveled…
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Community

Rewarding Righteous Action

By P.C. Staff

August 8, 2025

Inaugural Robert Emmett Fletcher Jr. Award goes to USC’s Dr. Carol Folt. By P.C. Staff Do the right thing. Not…
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Arts & Entertainment

‘SNL’s’ Leo Yoshimura Gets Close-Up

By P.C. Staff

August 8, 2025

A revelatory Fireside Chat precedes his acceptance of the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award. By P.C. Staff To paraphrase original “Saturday…
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JACL

An Evening of ‘Enchantment’

By Allison Haramoto

August 8, 2025

JACL concludes its national convention with nods to Folt and Yoshimura; organization also recognizes New Mexico chapter. By Allison Haramoto,…
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Features

Imagine No Alien Enemies Act

By P.C. Staff

August 8, 2025

“Never Again: The Fight to Repeal the Alien Enemies Act” plenary panelists Naoko Fujii and Mike Honda (Photo: George Toshio…
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Community

‘Youth in Unity’

By P.C. Staff

August 8, 2025

The JACL’s NY/SC awards Austin Fujii with its 2025 Vision Award. By P.C. Staff JACL’s National Youth/Student Council hosted its…
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