Dear Erin Yasuda Soto, Thank you for your continued support for our work at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. Your article, “Labor of Love” (Jan. 5-11, 2012) described our farming exhibit reception and the artifacts beautifully. Aggie Idemoto, Ed.D., President, Japanese American Museum of San Jose
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LETTERS: Nikkei ‘enduring’ life in Louisiana
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Note: This letter was sent in response to the article entitled “The astonishing history of Japanese Americans in Louisiana,” which ran in two parts in November. Dear Editor, I was sent copies of the Nichi Bei Weekly, dated Nov. 3-9, part 1 and Nov. 10-16, 2011, part 2, to our Gardens in Louisiana. I really [...]
LETTERS: Greetings from the Koharas
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Note: This letter was sent in response to the article entitled “The astonishing history of Japanese Americans in Louisiana,” which ran in two parts in November. Dear Editor, Thank you for including our Kohara clan in this article. We are all proud of our family in Louisiana. JD Sparks (Kohara) Pewee Valley, KY
COMMENTARY: What IS the future of SF’s Japantown?
September 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor: San Francisco’s Japantown is one of three recognized Japantowns left in the United States. San Francisco’s Japantown in the Western Addition area of the City was decimated twice — first during WWII when Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals were sent to concentration camps; and second in the 1960s when the Redevelopment Agency declared [...]
LETTERS: Grayce Uyehara in acrylic
September 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, Grayce Uyehara is prominently featured in artist Alfred J. Smith’s acrylic painting “Crossings” (1986), which is hung in the [Walter E. Washington Convention Center] lobby area across from Room 140 on Level 1. The painting depicts community leaders crossing the street at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and M Street NW, Washington, D.C. [...]
LETTERS: ‘American concentration camp’
September 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor: We were recently made aware that the American Jewish Committee (AJC) had requested that the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) disapprove a proposal to utilize the term “American concentration camp” to describe the World War II incarceration of over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry. In a June 30, 2011, e-mail to the JACL, [...]
LETTERS: Remembering the ‘real Senate redress hero,’ Spark Matsunaga
September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor: In the run-up to the Heart Mountain [Interpretive Learning Center] opening, [former Senator] Alan Simpson said to a Wyoming reporter that redress couldn’t have been done without me. This was all very nice, but on the Senate floor in the spring of 1988, Simpson voted for an amendment offered by Jesse Helms to [...]
LETTERS: The ‘joy, challenges and essence of being a hapa’
June 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Note: The following letter was sent in response to the “In Mixed Company: Multiracial academics, advocates and artists gather for Hapa Japan Conference” article that was published in the May 26 – June 1, 2011 issue of the Nichi Bei Weekly. Thank you, Alec, for your excellent article on the Hapa Japan Conference held at [...]
LETTERS: CNBC editor tries to dissuade people from aiding victims in Japan
March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor: This morning when I logged onto CNBC’s Website, I came across a poorly-written, insensitively-timed article with the “Do Not Donate Money To Japan” teaser written by Mr. John Carney, just days after the horrific earthquake and tsunami. www.cnbc.com/id/42076147 This is blanket discouragement against donating to Japan disguised as concern over allocation of charitable [...]
LETTERS: Kudos for Korematsu Day coverage
February 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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