regional/national
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Gulf shrimpers still worry about spill, Vietnamese way of life
November 25, 2010 by Nichi Bei News
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Vietnamese American shrimpers are slowly returning to their boats after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but many are anxious about their futures working in […] READ MORE
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MTA Board Selects Connector Rail Route through Little Tokyo: Construction for the two-mile fully-underground project could begin in 2014 and be completed in 2019
November 25, 2010 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — An underground railroad route through Little Tokyo moved one step closer to reality when the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) board of directors on Oct. […] READ MORE
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Japanese American WWII students at City College of SF sought for diploma project
September 30, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
The California Nisei College Diploma Project (CA Nisei Project) is seeking to locate those Japanese Americans whose studies at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) were halted due to […] READ MORE
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UC Berkeley’s Honorary Degree Ceremony a Time to Reflect
December 17, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
For most of the approximately 400 students who participated in the University of California Berkeley’s Dec. 13 winter graduation ceremony, the day represented the beginning of an exciting future as […] READ MORE
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Honored: 67 Years Late, UCSF Awards Nikkei with Diplomas
December 10, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
On Dec. 4, Edith Oto received a degree from the School of Nursing at the University of California San Francisco. She also turned 90. The Napa native was one of […] READ MORE
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Military Service and Legal Challenges: Martial Law in Hawaii
October 8, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
(Note: The following is an excerpt from the book “A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America,” published by Columbia University Press) Intimately connected to the confinement of U.S. […] READ MORE
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A-Bomb Survivors in America Examined by Hiroshima Doctors
September 24, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) — Atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now living in North America, received health checks from a group of Japanese doctors Sept. 19 at a suburban Los […] READ MORE
