TOKYO — Students, mothers and other protesters staged rallies at more than 200 locations across Japan on Aug. 30, calling for the scrapping of controversial security legislation that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to enact to strengthen the role of Japanese forces abroad. A major rally in front of the Diet building in central Tokyo […]
Protesters rally across Japan against controversial security bills
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Facing the horror of war and violence
February 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It has been a while since the terrible shootings at that elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and we’ve all wrung our hands and carried on about the horror of it, the murders of 20 young school children and the six teachers by a disturbed young man. We live in a country that more or less […]
Petition launched to rename Arizona park to commemorate wartime incarceration
October 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
CHANDLER, Ariz. — The city of Chandler, Ariz. drafted plans for “Nozomi Park†in 2005, but has since suspended indefinitely its plans due to budgeting shortfalls. The 70-acre park was meant to honor those of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in the state during World War II. The park’s name, which means “hope†in Japanese, […]
IN REMEMBRANCE: Website documents wartime incarceration, one photo at a time
August 12, 2011 by 1 Comment
Inspired by the accounts of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II, photographer Andy Frazer now shares their stories through profiles on his Website, Kioku: Portraits of Japanese-American Internment. Kioku means remembrance in Japanese. Frazer interviews the former inmates and shoots black-and-white images that he then displays online at www.gorillasites.com/kioku/default.htm. “The original goal […]
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Agent Orange Studies Overlook Vietnamese Americans
A few years ago, my father, a former naval officer in the South Vietnamese Army, developed liver cancer. The diagnosis followed decades of struggle with Hepatitis C, a viral infection he contracted through a blood transfusion during the war. A liver transplant saved his life. More than two years since the operation, and my father’s […]