Tetsujiro “Tex†Nakamura, a civil rights advocate who became involved in redevelopment issues in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo after World War II and an attorney who worked closely with attorney Wayne Collins on the World War II Japanese American renunciation cases, the Tokyo Rose Iva Toguri d’Aquino case and the Japanese Latin American cases, passed […]
‘Tex’ Nakamura, civil rights advocate who worked with Wayne Collins, dies
September 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
JA org honors those who paved a path home
May 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The National Japanese American Historical Society held its annual awards dinner May 3 at its Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center (Building 640) in the San Francisco Presidio. The program, entitled “Journey: Paving Our Way Home,†focused on Japanese Americans whose work helped rebuild post-war lives in both America and Japan. “In the course of […]
STORIES OF RESISTANCE: A centennial of civil liberties and American patriotism
February 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This year is the centennial of a remarkable year for civil liberties in American history. In 1913, Harriet Tubman (the Moses of her people and abolitionist heroine of the Underground Railroad, who led slaves in the south to freedom in the north) died, and Rosa Parks (civil rights activist who challenged the segregated public bus […]
Korematsu Day event honors Asian Pacific American civil rights ‘heroes’
February 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
San Francisco celebrated its third annual Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, the first day named after an Asian American in the United States, on Jan. 27 at Herbst Theater in San Francisco. The event celebrates Fred T. Korematsu, who resisted unconstitutional laws that incarcerated nearly 120,000 people of Japanese decent during […]
No-nos, renunciants speak out about stigma over wartime actions
November 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
TORRANCE, Calif. — The “No-No Boys†and renunciants, Nikkei prisoners who protested the injustice of having to answer a “loyalty questionnaire†while incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II, were the focus of a forum held on Oct. 27 at the Katy Geissert Civic Center Library Community Room in Torrance. Although 70 years […]
Hundreds journey back to long-stigmatized Tule Lake Segregation Center
July 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. The 2012 Tule Lake Pilgrimage, held from June 30 through July 3, not only received a huge response of close to 400 attendees, but it also attracted a large number of first timers. Former Tulean Hiroshi Kashiwagi experienced the early Tule Lake Pilgrimage back in […]
Untold stories of Tule Lake Segregation Center unveiled at pilgrimage
July 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The 2010 Tule Lake Pilgrimage had the apt theme of “Sharing the Untold Stories of Tule Lake,†as more former Tuleans participated in the four-day pilgrimage, many for the first time. Close to 330 people participated in this year’s pilgrimage on the Fourth of July weekend, with more than 60 of them over the age […]
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Remembering Roger
The first book I read about Japanese American history was Roger Daniels’ book, “The Politics of Prejudice.” It was 1966, and in my research as a college freshman, it was the rare book on Japanese American history, one that began Roger’s long and illustrious career as a historian documenting the story of Japanese Americans and […]