Japanese Americans

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• SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
  2/14/2022
  

  Shirley Ann Higuchi: Sen. Lee is Obstructing Establishment of National Historic Site for former Internment Center

  The Utah Senator is blocking unanimous consent rules for a bill that would establish a historic site commemorating the internment of 8,000 Japanese Americans at Camp Amache in Colorado. 

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• SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
  9/19/2021
  

  Local Professor Building History of San Diego's Japanese Americans

  San Diego City College professor Susan Hasegawa describes a public history project detailing the story of San Diego's Japanese Americans before and after internment, and a librarian who supported interned children with books and messages of support.

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• SOURCE: Hawaii Public Radio
  6/7/2021
  

  USPS Unveils Stamp Honoring Japanese American WWII Veterans

  “A picture is worth a thousand words,” said Lynn Heirakuji, president of the Nisei Veterans Legacy and co-chair of the Stamp Our Story Hawaii Organizing Committee.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/27/2021
  

  Japanese American Soldiers in World War II Fought the Axis Abroad and Racial Prejudice at Home

  by Susan H. Kamei

  The USPS has just released a stamp commemorating the service of the Japanese-American 100th/442nd combat unit in Europe during World War II. It's equally important to remember the way that veterans of that unit fought remaining racial prejudice after the war. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/18/2020
  

  Patsy Takemoto Mink Blazed The Trail For Kamala Harris – Not Susan B. Anthony

  by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

  Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1972 as the first woman of color in Congress, deserves recognition as a pioneering advocate for gender equity and the rights of Americans Caribbean and Pacific territories, and for preparing a path for Kamala Harris's election as Vice President. 

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/24/2020
  

  The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations

  The fight for Japanese American reparations came with significant resistance—not just from the American public at large, but from the Japanese American community itself, as John Tateishi writes in his new book. 

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  3/2/2020
  

  Bellevue College President, Vice President Out after Mural on Japanese American Incarceration was Altered

  The deletion was condemned by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which called the act “tantamount to agreement with the hate speech of decades past.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-3-18
  

  Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII

  In papers presented in 2000 and 2007, historian Margo J. Anderson of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and statistician William Seltzer of Fordham University found evidence that census officials cooperated with the government, providing data to target Japanese Americans.

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• 2/25/18
  

  Along with Rosie the Riveter You Should Think of This When You Conjure Up the Home Front in World War II

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  Incarcerated Japanese Americans working on factory lines in the war effort.

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• 2-5-17
  

  Suddenly What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Newly Relevant

  by Shirley Ann Higuchi

  This is one family’s story.