Nisei Veterans’ Descendant Visits Where They Fought Nazis
Author Hayley Tsukayama shares her account of the Sept. 2-10 Nisei Legacy Tour in Italy, where she visited sites where…
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Go for Broke National Education Center Holds 25th Evening of Aloha
After 37 years of existence as an organization, the Go for Broke National Education Center used its 25th Evening of…
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New Documentary Tells How Nisei Soldiers Planted ‘Seeds of Aloha’
Test screenings for director Steve Sue’s new documentary “The 100th: Seeds of Aloha” will take place throughout California in November.
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Retired Maj. Gen. William Chen Discusses Career That Spanned Cuban Missile Crisis to the First Gulf War
Retired Maj. Gen. William Chen discusses with military historian Montgomery Hom his 32-year-long Army career that began with the Cuban…
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During WWII, Fort Snelling’s MIS Language School Turned Nisei Into America’s Secret Weapon
Military Intelligence Service graduates served in the Pacific and occupied Japan, and about a third of the soldiers were recruited…
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Last Step of Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial’s Journey Is Completed
Twelve survivors cut the ribbon Oct. 11 on the $6.5 million center, which tells how Japanese American incarceration began with…
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Orange County Black Chamber Honors Ken Inouye
Alison Edwards, left, CEO of Groundswell (formerly the Orange County Human Relations Council), presents Kenneth Inouye with the 2026 Distinguished…
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Sam Mihara Brings His Show North to Alaska
Sam Mihara, 92, spoke in Homer and Anchorage on Oct. 9 about his childhood at Heart Mountain and Executive Order…
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Sansei Discuss Generational Trauma and the Camps
Far left, Wendy Tokuda moderates a discussion on intergenerational trauma in the Japanese American community on Sept. 27 at the…
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Little Tokyo Nutritional Services Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
Pictured (from left) are Darlene Kuba, Rep. Judy Chu, Setsuko Nakama, Beverly Ito and Don Tahara. (Photos: Alex Luu) The…
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Checking History: JACL Remembers Oct. 9
In 1990, first redress funds were disbursed to living incarceration survivors. Exactly 36 years after the United States government first…
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Filmmaker Dave Boyle explores J-horror in his new thriller ‘Never After Dark.’
Filmmaker Dave Boyle’s new thriller “Never After Dark,” released in U.S. theaters Sept. 25, follows a Japanese medium who confronts…
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APIAHiP Spotlight Focus: Colorado
APIAHiP Executive Director Huy Pham offers opening remarks. (Photos: Gil Asakawa) The biennial forum pays tribute to the state’s deep…
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Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz Star at San Diego JACL Gala
The award-winning “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order” received yet another accolade for its trophy shelf on Sept. 12 when the…
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Thai Heavy Metal Guitarist Nene Royal, 16, Wins America’s Got Talent
Guitarist Nene Royal of Phuket, Thailand, won NBC’s America’s Got Talent Season 21 on Sept. 23 and received a $1…
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Heart Mountain Receives Two Key National Park Service Grants
Hitoshi “Moe” Yonemura (right) is one of the 15 soldiers from Heart Mountain who will be honored in the upcoming…
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How JACL Passed the Resolution in Support of Immigrant Communities Targeted by ICE
(Editor’s note: The following is a personal essay about the behind-the-scenes actions that went into the passage of R-1, Resolution…
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‘California Roll’ documents history of the dish that opened America to sushi
Bill Sharp and Sam Epstein trace chef Ichiro Mashita’s mid-1960s Tokyo Kaikan roll, with former JANM curator Emily Anderson. It…