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JACL apologizes to Tule Lake incarcerees
November 7, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
The new generation of JACL leaders and members should be congratulated for acknowledging and understanding the need for voting in favor of the resolution offering a sincere apology to Tule […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Dear JAVA, where is your sense of compassion and understanding?
October 24, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Some of you probably know that the Japanese American Citizens League made a historic move at their last convention, which was held earlier this summer. They presented a resolution of […] READ MORE
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JACL votes to apologize to ‘Tule Lake resisters’
August 29, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
The Japanese American Citizens League voted Aug. 3 at its 50th National Convention in Salt Lake City to offer an apology to the “Tule Lake resisters” for its past ostracism […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Hoping for an apology
August 1, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
By the time this column is published, the 2019 Japanese American Citizens League National Convention will be just underway, so I write this not knowing what happened. I am concerned […] READ MORE
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Japanese American Citizens League considers apology to Tule Lake resisters
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Nearly two decades after passing a resolution addressing its past skeletons, a national Japanese American organization is once again set to confront its controversial actions during the war. The National […] READ MORE
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An ‘immersion’ into Terminal Island Nikkei lives
January 1, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
TERMINAL ISLAND: LOST COMMUNITIES OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR By Naomi Hirahara and Geraldine Knatz (Santa Monica, Calif.: Angel City Press, 2015, 288 pp., $35, paperback) As an oral historian, I […] READ MORE
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Suyama Project seeks stories of WWII protests
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — United States residents of Japanese ancestry, who reportedly endured without protest the forced relocation from their West Coast homes and incarceration in U.S.-style concentration camps after Japan’s […] READ MORE
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF INFAMY: Nikkei resistance during World War II
January 1, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Contrary to the stereotype that Japanese Americans during World War II never questioned the constitutionality of the United States concentration camps and willingly went in to the camps and even […] READ MORE
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‘Tim’ Nomiyama, a Nisei military resister, dies
December 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Tetsuo “Tim” Nomiyama, a Kibei Nisei military resister, passed away on Dec. 10, 2012 at the age of 96. Nomiyama was born on Jan. 20, 1916 in Alameda, Calif. Around […] READ MORE
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Setting the record straight on ‘Allegiance’
November 1, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
The play “Allegiance” attempts to promote sympathy for those who answered no to loyalty questionnaire questions or refused induction into the U.S. Army (aka “resisters”) by seeking to taint the […] READ MORE
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