During World War II, Fred Korematsu, one of the 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans incarcerated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, refused to be moved ...
Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the ...
When Donald Tamaki got a call from the Governor’s Office asking him to interview for a position on California’s Reparations ...
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 ...
Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...
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 ...
The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande will offer a special presentation Jan. 31 by historian Jim Gregory, ...
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 ...
When Stephen Nelson joined the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast team in 2023, he became the only Japanese American (or Asian American) hired as a play-by-play announcer by an MLB club, according ...
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.