Civil Liberties Act
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Film documents those who were forcibly removed but not incarcerated in Hawai‘i
February 15, 2024 by Nichi Bei News
The little-known World War II story of more than 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry, who were forcibly removed from their homes in Hawai‘i but not incarcerated, is movingly captured in […] READ MORE
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Japanese Americans won redress, fight for Black reparations
March 2, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
SAN FRANCISCO — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to apologize to the families it imprisoned during World War II, Black […] READ MORE
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San Jose JA political icon remembered in hometown memorial
June 23, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stuart Mineta recounted as a child becoming frustrated with his attempt to draw a model airplane, so he asked his father to draw it for him. […] READ MORE
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Calif. Civil Liberties projects, relating to JA wartime incarceration, announced
July 19, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California State Library has awarded $694,000 for 26 projects through the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, which aims “to remind Californians of the civil liberties […] READ MORE
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Mineta legacy: Film on Japanese American icon makes its debut
May 10, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
A documentary highlighting the life and career of Norman Yoshio Mineta, the legislator who achieved many firsts for Asians in American politics, will have its world premiere at the Center […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Time of remembrance
February 1, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
Last year, we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, the order that authorized the incarceration of more than 110,000 American Japanese during World War II. […] READ MORE
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SEEKING PERSONAL JUSTICE: The little-known role of Aiko and Jack Herzig after the Redress Bill was passed
January 4, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga is best known for her work during the Japanese American Redress Movement on the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians; the class action lawsuit filed by […] READ MORE
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Angus Macbeth, CWRIC special counsel, dies
February 2, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
The Japanese American Citizens League issued a statement Jan. 23 “mourn(ing) the passing of Angus Macbeth, who served as special counsel to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of […] READ MORE
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Mike Honda is our Nikkei of the Year
January 1, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
Mike Honda has had a long and storied career in public service, which started with the Peace Corps in El Salvador to his steady rise up from a teacher, principal, […] READ MORE
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‘Rare and enlightening addition’ to the ‘black hole’ of JA scholarship
January 1, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
THE LONG AFTERLIFE OF NIKKEI WARTIME INCARCERATION By Karen M. Inouye (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016, 256 pp., $55, hardcover) Karen M. Inouye, a professor of American studies at […] READ MORE
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