March 2016
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Culture and history collide in wartime family drama
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
“I have been thinking about this subject for a long time,” said Luis Valdez in a phone conversation. Valdez, who is a world renown playwright and writer, was referring to […] READ MORE
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Prominent defense and civil rights attorney honored after his death
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
Garrick Lew, a prominent San Francisco defense attorney and co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, passed away on March 19. He was 65. San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who […] READ MORE
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Don Nakanishi, pioneer in Asian American studies, dies at 66
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition for establishing Asian American studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service and public discourse, died March […] READ MORE
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THE KAERU KID: Pollywog goes to Hawai‘i
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust One of the downsides of traveling to so many different locations is […] READ MORE
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Films to Remember: Fifth annual film fest presents fresh stories on incarceration
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
The Nichi Bei Foundation presented its fifth annual Films of Remembrance program Feb. 20 at the New People Cinema in San Francisco’s Japantown. The one-day film festival hosted a full […] READ MORE
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Trump open to Tokyo and Seoul having nuclear weapons
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON — U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he is open to the idea of both Japan and South Korea developing their own nuclear weapons and would be willing […] READ MORE
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THE HEART OF KANJI: Truth
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
真 (makoto, shin, ma) means truth. This kanji character is in the form of a person who is upside down, which indicates that the person is dead. The truth is […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Ruby Aiko Ikuta
March 31, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
IKUTA, RUBY AIKO, 90, passed away peacefully on March 14th at her home in South Lake Tahoe, with her husband, Juichi ’Jay‘ Ikuta by her side. Born July 31, 1925, […] READ MORE
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DOR recalls Executive Order 9066, decries anti-Muslim hatred
March 17, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — The incarceration experience of Japanese Americans during World War II, based on racial hatred, and its similarity to the modern day anti-Muslim animosity in America, was a […] READ MORE
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Spectators shout racial slurs at Sacramento-area high school game
March 17, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
Student spectators from Oak Ridge High School, in Northern California’s El Dorado Hills, made racial taunts and other appearance-related insults against Asian American basketball players from C.K McClatchy High School […] READ MORE
