mass incarceration
-
Japanese Americans gather in Texas to protest family detention at border
April 11, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
CRYSTAL CITY, Texas — More than 60 people from across the United States participated in a historical pilgrimage to Texas from March 29 to April 1 that included a memorial […] READ MORE
-
President Obama needs to stop repeating FDR’s worst mistake and end family detention now
August 20, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
(Editor’s note: This blog was originally published on ACLU.org) The Obama administration has repeatedly characterized its newly constructed family detention camps as “an effective and humane” way to keep families […] READ MORE
-
THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Sen. Sanji Abe’s ‘tragic’ story, and the ‘hollow’ case for the wartime incarceration
August 22, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
This week’s chapter covers the tragic story of Sen. Sanji Abe as a way of understanding the plight of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i during World War II. People who study […] READ MORE
-
THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Deciphering the truth behind the JACL’s ‘800-pound gorilla’
August 8, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
This week’s column revisits a bit of “unknown history” and tries to determine whether it is true. Let me explain. On March 18, 2011, former Japanese American Citizens League Executive […] READ MORE
-
The importance of Japanese American baseball
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues By Samuel O. Regalado (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2013, 208 pp., $80, cloth, $25, paperback) […] READ MORE
-
THE KAERU KID: Manzanar and more in Lone Pine
August 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
The annual pilgrimage to the Manzanar National Historic Site takes place during the last weekend of April. This coincides with the opening of trout season that so many Nikkei look […] READ MORE
-
Tule Lake, the consequences
August 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: On Aug. 2, the National Park Service (NPS) held a meeting at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo with community stakeholders about planning the Tule Lake […] READ MORE
-
President Obama hails Hirabayashi’s courage in defying wartime incarceration
May 31, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) — U.S. President Barack Obama on May 29 hailed the courage of Gordon Hirabayashi for defying the incarceration order for Japanese Americans during World War II as he […] READ MORE
-
Stockton tolerance garden honors WWII-era educator
April 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
STOCKTON, Calif. — Bone-chilling morning breezes didn’t cool the warm feelings of some 125 supporters who gathered at a garden dedication at the San Joaquin Delta College on April 14 to […] READ MORE
MOST POPULAR
