February 2021
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The unique case of Bainbridge Island’s JA community in ‘Bearing the Unbearable’
February 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
A little over a month after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the infamous Executive Order 9066, military orders by Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt began forcibly removing people of Japanese […] READ MORE
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Furor over Tokyo Olympics chief’s sexism proved too big to defuse
February 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — The global uproar over Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori’s remarks accusing women of talking too much proved too big in the end to be defused with an apology. […] READ MORE
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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Green onion or scallion?
February 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
In the 50th, we normally refer to the top of Allium chinense as green onions, though the rest of the United States refers to them as scallions. Their culinary preparations […] READ MORE
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Sally Sumiye Osaki
February 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
OSAKI, SALLY SUMIYE passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 30, 2021. She was 88 years old. She was born the youngest of six siblings to Tadahiko and Chika Noda on […] READ MORE
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10th annual Films of Remembrance to feature some old, new, and a bit of old school
February 4, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Special presentation of 45th anniversary of “Farewell to Manzanar” at the drive-in to feature reunion of cast and crew, with partial proceeds benefitting Yu-Ai Kai senior service The 10th annual […] READ MORE
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Sansei artists emerge from ‘Shadows from the Past’
February 4, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Bay Area artist Na Omi Judy Shintani remembers the day several years ago when her Nisei father walked up to a barrack just like the one that once housed him […] READ MORE
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Health registry centers AAPIs
February 4, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Asian and Pacific Islander community members from California gathered for an online presentation by the Collaborative Approach for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Research and Education the morning of Jan. […] READ MORE
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Corky Lee, known for photographing Asian America, dies at 73
February 4, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Corky Lee, a photojournalist who spent five decades spotlighting the often ignored Asian and Pacific Islander American communities, has died. He was 73. Lee died Jan. 27 in New York […] READ MORE
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Filmmaker seeks bone marrow donor after leukemia relapse
February 4, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
In 2016, Paul Goodman was diagnosed with leukemia. The 25-year-old Yonsei filmmaker had gone to the doctor to take some blood tests and was quickly ushered to the ER the […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: In praise of the cook: Remembrance of Jack Shirai, A Nikkei antifascist fighter
February 4, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
(Editor’s note: The following article was co-written with Jonathan Van Harmelen.) Traditionally, discussion of the Nikkei combat experience starts with World War II and centers on the exploits of the […] READ MORE
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