January 2017
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OBITUARY: Kikuyo Sekino
January 19, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
SEKINO, KIKUYO, 102, passed peacefully in her sleep after visiting with and surrounded by her children on December 16, 2016. She was preceded in death by husband, Yukio Sekino. She […] READ MORE
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Wartime sex-slave memorial’s inscription finalized
January 19, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
The San Francisco Arts Commission’s Visual Arts Committee at its Jan. 18 meeting unanimously approved — with amendments — the proposed inscription for the “comfort women” memorial statue, which will […] READ MORE
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Wife of Florida nightclub shooter appears in court on federal terrorism charges
January 19, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
OAKLAND, Calif. — The wife of a man who killed 49 people in a Florida nightclub and then died in a gunfight with police in June made a brief appearance […] READ MORE
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Toyota to invest $10 bil. in U.S. over 5 years
January 19, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
DETROIT — Toyota Motor Corp. will spend $10 billion in U.S. capital investments over the next five years, President Akio Toyoda announced Jan. 9, under an arrangement the automaker says […] READ MORE
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Japan hails Obama’s achievements, sounds optimism over Trump era
January 19, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Japan hailed Jan. 11 progress made between the administrations of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama and expressed confidence bilateral relations will continue to […] READ MORE
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Not fit for print (Apparently in the white media establishment)
January 19, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
First it was letters to the Travel Section of the Los Angeles Times, followed by an op-ed piece in The New York Times. These opinion pieces distorted the real experiences […] READ MORE
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A ‘delectable’ though perhaps ‘paradoxical’ tribute to a civil rights icon
January 10, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
FRED KOREMATSU SPEAKS UP By Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi, Illustrated by Yutaka Houlette. (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2017, 112 pp., $18, hardcover) As indulgent friend/relative and indefatigable book advocate, […] READ MORE
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People of Color and the poor will be hardest hit by ACA repeal
January 5, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to repeal and replace Obamacare is bad news for millions of Americans, but the poor and people of color are going to be hit hardest, say […] READ MORE
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Couple’s exhaustive search for documents led to truth behind WWll incarceration camps: Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga donates historic papers to UCLA Library Special Collections
January 5, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born an American citizen in Sacramento. She grew up in Los Angeles. But none of these facts prevented the U.S. government from incarcerating her […] READ MORE
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Abe offers condolences, hails reconciliation at Pearl Harbor
January 5, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
HONOLULU — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered his “sincere and everlasting condolences” Dec. 27 at Pearl Harbor for those who died in the Japanese attack there in 1941, while […] READ MORE
