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Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert
September 11, 2025 by Associated Press
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what […] READ MORE
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Public outcry over NPS’ call for public input
July 17, 2025 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
As summer began, members of the public saw flyers posted at all National Park Service sites across the nation. The one-page notice, posted by order of the Secretary of the […] READ MORE
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NEW SUPERINTENDENT Christine Ogura: Honouliuli National Historic Site has important message for all
April 10, 2025 by Kevin Y. Kawamoto
Christine Ogura has an important story to tell, and she has a major platform from which to tell it. As the permanent superintendent of the Honouliuli National Historic Site, she […] READ MORE
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14th annual Films of Remembrance to expand to Southern California venues
February 13, 2025 by Nichi Bei News
A record class of 19 films — including exclusive presentations in the last remaining Japantowns of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose, as well as Gardena, Calif. — will […] READ MORE
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of landmark book ‘Farewell to Manzanar,’ dies at 90
January 16, 2025 by Nichi Bei News
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose pioneering book “Farewell to Manzanar” and its subsequent film introduced much of America to the story of the wartime incarceration of a people, died Dec. 21, […] READ MORE
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CONFRONTING HEARTBREAK AT HEART MOUNTAIN: A family journey back to wartime incarceration site
August 15, 2024 by Ellen Kamei
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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アマチ強制収容所へ巡礼の旅 今年３月、国定史跡に正式認定
June 20, 2024 by Nichi Bei Japanese Section
コロラド州南東部、グラナダ郊外にある第二次世界大戦時の日系人強制収容所、アマチへの巡礼が５月18日に行われた。今年3月、アマチは国立公園として正式に認定され、 READ MORE
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FOLLOWING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: Florin’s annual Manzanar Pilgrimage supports solidarity
May 23, 2024 by Gregory Wada
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On April 26, 51 pilgrims boarded a bus at the Florin Buddhist Church in Sacramento to participate in the Manzanar Pilgrimage. Their three-day journey would follow in […] READ MORE
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Ancestry Website cataloguing names of JAs incarcerated during WWII
April 25, 2024 by Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry […] READ MORE
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13th annual Films of Remembrance Feb. 24-25 in S.F., San Jose Japantowns
February 1, 2024 by Nichi Bei News
Films of Remembrance, a showcase of films on the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II, will be held Feb. 24 at the AMC […] READ MORE
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