2015
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Topaz Museum presents proposed exhibits to S.F. Nikkei for comment
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Following more than two decades of planning and work, the Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah is hoping to open its permanent exhibit sometime in 2016. Despite initial issues regarding the […] READ MORE
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Fred Hoshiyama, YMCA and Japanese American community leader, dies at 100
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Fred Hoshiyama, a longtime leader of the YMCA who became an active leader in many Japanese American community organizations, died Nov. 30, 2015 in Southern California, one week shy of […] READ MORE
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Obama urges fight against bigotry, cites wartime Japanese American incarceration
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama called Dec. 15 for a continued fight against discrimination and bigotry, citing the country’s unfair past treatment of some Europeans and Chinese, as well […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Kei (Hasegawa) Noguchi
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
NOGUCHI, KEI (HASEGAWA), 93, died on November 24, 2015. She was predeceased by her husband, Nike Noguchi, in 2007. Kei was born October 20, 1922, in San Francisco, the only […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Kaoru “Kirk” Shibata
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
SHIBATA, KAORU “KIRK,” 82, died November 13th, suddenly of natural causes. A celebration of life service will be held at Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church in Sacramento on Dec. 19, […] READ MORE
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New Sterling Library exhibit provides window into Japanese American incarceration
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Yonekazu Satoda was confined at an assembly center in Fresno awaiting transfer to the Jerome Relocation Center, a swampy and barren incarceration camp in Arkansas, when he noted a missed […] READ MORE
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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Are you nuts?
December 17, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
For the record, I only act that way, but what I’m referring to here is the cornerstone of mankind’s earliest diet. Along with the occasional captured rodent and harvested fruits, […] READ MORE
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THE HEART OF KANJI: Visiting Japan
December 3, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Last October, Alice and I visited Japan. We left San Francisco on Oct. 21 via All Nippon Airways. An Australian stewardess who spoke fluent Japanese served us on the airplane. […] READ MORE
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Politicians link wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans in Syrian refugee crisis
December 3, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Following the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks, American lawmakers expressed concerns about admitting Syrian refugees into the United States. In response to the possibility of terrorists posing as refugees, the […] READ MORE
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LETTERS: How to claim your unclaimed funds
December 3, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Dear Editor: My son likes to peruse the Internet, and he told me that I could ask for money that the state of California was holding for an utility overpayment I had […] READ MORE
