March 28, 2024 by Nichi Bei Japanese Section
第2次世界大戦中の1942年2月19日、フランクリン・ルーズベルト大統領は日系人約12万人の強制収容を指示する大統領令9066号に署名した。毎年2月19日前後には全米各地で日系人強制収容に思いをはせる「追憶の日」のイベントが行われる。 READ MORE
August 30, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Aug. 27, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, in Sacramento, issued an 18-page order denying, without prejudice, the Tule Lake Committee’s motion […] READ MORE
August 16, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, who passed away on July 18, 2018, was not a household name, even among Japanese Americans. Yet her place in history as “godmother of Japanese American redress” […] READ MORE
July 19, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
REBEL LAWYER: WAYNE COLLINS AND THE DEFENSE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN RIGHTS By Charles Wollenberg (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2018, 160 pp., $20, hardcover) Representing unpopular clients is a lawyer’s highest […] READ MORE
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