January 2012
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Redistricting: Bad news for J-Town
January 27, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
The latest Redistricting map for the Supervisor Districts in San Francisco is BAD news for J-Town. It places J-Town north of Geary in District 2 and south of Geary to […] READ MORE
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Redistricting to divide S.F.’s J-Town
January 27, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
What is the impact of moving the voting boundary lines by dividing the Japanese community of San Francisco? That is precisely the intent of the new redistricting lines being drawn […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Revisiting the redress days
January 27, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
The death of Gordon Hirabayashi closes the chapter on some of the heroic actions taken by three Japanese Americans during WWII. Hirabayashi, Min Yasui and Fred Korematsu were all men […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Joanne Akiko Sato
January 26, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
SATO, JOANNE AKIKO of Mill Valley peacefully passed on January 5 surrounded by her family. Born Oct. 22, 1932 to Ichiro and Shige Kataoka, Joanne Akiko was the youngest of […] READ MORE
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UCLA to sell treasured Japanese garden amid financial difficulty
January 26, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
The University of California, Los Angeles plans to sell its Hannah Carter Japanese Garden and the adjoining home to raise money for endowments, the institution announced in a statement issued […] READ MORE
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iTOUR THROUGH HISTORY: New app allows digital media to teach about the Japanese American incarceration experience
January 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Have the days when students learned about Japanese American history through textbooks gone by the wayside? As consumers latch on to the latest tech gadgets, some companies are using digital […] READ MORE
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THE KAERU KID: Go, going, Ghana (pt. 2)
January 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. We again traveled by taxi to the Accra suburb of Teshie to see coffin makers ply their trade. The coffins […] READ MORE
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Remembering Gordon Hirabayashi, from one resister to another
January 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
It was through a news report in the early nineteen forties that I first became aware of the remarkable Gordon Hirabayashi. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor he had surrendered […] READ MORE
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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Turning a new leaf
January 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Well, it’s the start of the new year, the Year of the Dragon. The Year of the Water Dragon, if you want to get technical, and it doesn’t officially start […] READ MORE
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Buying American, Japan bashing in the post-industrial
January 20, 2012 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
UPDATE: It appears I was mistaken, and this was all just a clever ruse. I rescind my offer and reactionary knee jerk reaction. What? Something wrong happened on the Internet? Well […] READ MORE
