Beloved public art exhibit featuring Japanese American history discovered defaced on MLK Jr. Day
Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the ...
Vandalism of public art in Seattle’s Japantown ‘a punch in the gut’
An art installation in Nihonmachi Alley commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was smeared with black ink over the weekend.
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Things at my Japanese school that could send Americans into a coma…
Megan and Ben from hito.bito on TikTok describe things about Japanese schools that could surprise Americans! Trump to declare ...
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Why a Japanese American lawyer wants Reparations for Black Californians
When Donald Tamaki got a call from the Governor’s Office asking him to interview for a position on California’s Reparations ...
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Oregon Swears In First Japanese American Lawmaker
Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...
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Exhibit on internment of Japanese Americans explores the trauma, tenacity in a dark moment in U.S. history
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Forty years after World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a study to examine the impact of the internment of Japanese Americans. Public hearings included ...
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The U.S. Must Allow Japanese Independence
“Keep Germans down, Americans in, and Russians out” was their German policy, and “Keep Japanese down, Americans in, and Russians (or Chinese) out” was their Japan policy. The U.S. wanted ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in WWII
To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019. This community nonprofit project was originally incubated at ...
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'Behind Barbed Wire' to highlight Japanese American WWII experience
The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande will offer a special presentation Jan. 31 by historian Jim Gregory, ...
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‘This is historic’: Oregon swears in first female Japanese American lawmaker
Oregon State Representative Mari Watanabe was sworn into office at Portland’s Japanese Garden on Sunday – making history as the state’s first Japanese American woman to join the Oregon legislature.