Perspectives
Our columnists touch on all-things Japanese America. Our readers and community members share their thoughts via their letters to the editor and commentaries.
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CONFRONTING HEARTBREAK AT HEART MOUNTAIN: A family journey back to wartime incarceration site
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Nearly 80 years after his birth behind barbed wire, my father returned to Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Three generations of our family, from ages 6 weeks to 79 years old, […] READ MORE
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Statement of solidarity by Nikkei Progressives
Nikkei Progressives
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Since October 7, 2023, the Zionist state of Israel has systematically murdered over 35,000 Palestinians, more than 15,000 of whom were children.1 This genocide is not a contained event but […] READ MORE
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STOP THE TULE LAKE FENCE 2024 – Deadline April 1
Tule Lake Committee Board of Directors
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The Tule Lake Committee needs your help to stop the FAA’s and Modoc County’s decade-long effort, resumed this year, to build a massive three-mile long, eight-foot high fence on the […] READ MORE
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Fresno Day of Remembrance
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I attended the Fresno Day of Remembrance and installation of the board of directors for the Japanese American Citizens League on Feb. 10 at the Fresno County Fairgrounds. I have […] READ MORE
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Grateful Crane uplifts spirits of disaster survivors in Tohoku, Japan
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In October at a public housing facility in Fukushima, Japan, an elderly Japanese man entered the room wearing the LA Dodgers cap we gave him five years ago. No longer […] READ MORE
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UTORO: A story of survival and remembrance in a Korean ethnic community in Japan
MEGUMI TSURUOKA
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Thirty years ago, in 1993, the people of Utoro, a small ethnic Korean community in Uji City, Kyoto, published a full-page advertisement in the New York Times headlined, “An Urgent […] READ MORE
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Snow Country Prison Memorial, Bismarck, North Dakota
Satsuki Ina
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It was a warm fall day in September 2023, at United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in Bismarck, North Dakota, where thousands of Native people gathered for the college’s renowned international […] READ MORE
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Stop AAPI Hate raises alarm about escalation of hate in the U.S. and echoes calls for ceasefire in Gaza
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For the past several weeks, communities across the U.S. have faced a terrifying escalation of hate in the form of harassment, threats, and violence. Countless Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and Jewish […] READ MORE
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Support our Nichi Bei Day of Giving
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Dear Friends, The Nichi Bei Foundation will enter its 15th year as an innovative nonprofit organization in 2024. We publish the nation’s leading Japanese American community newspaper while offering engaging […] READ MORE
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Introducing … a new Japanese section
KENJI G. TAGUMA, Nichi Bei News
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Today marks a historic occasion in the legacy of the Nichi Bei News, as we take a bold leap to launch a new Japanese section. As we set out to […] READ MORE
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