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Wednesday bullets

December 11, 2008 · No Comments

For Japanese companies, it’s important to invest in themselves - even in tough economic times.

Big news for the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Here’s a hint: it involves the words National Historic Monument.

After school taiko drumming classes inspire State Island youths.

William “Mo” Marumoto, a former internee and White House aide to President Richard M. Nixon, passes away at the age of 73.

Categories: Business · Japanese American internment · Music
Tagged: taiko, tule lake, japanese businesses, william marumoto

Monday bullets

December 1, 2008 · No Comments

Do you like the origins of words? Here’s an interesting look into the relationship between Japanese and English.

Junichi Tazawa, a talented 22-year-old Japanese pitcher, takes less money to join the Boston Red Sox.

Bits of Paradise, a play based on letters sent between women in internment camps and Japanese American soldiers, debuts today in San Francisco.

Brenda Cronin from the Wall Street Journal writes that Japan might not be the best example to follow when trying to get out of a recession.

I.J. Singh, a professor at NYU and a guest blogger for the Washington Post, remembers a special Japanese American Thanksgiving.

Categories: Entertainment · Japanese American internment · Politics · Sports
Tagged: bits of paradise, red sox, thanksgiving

Friday bullets

November 21, 2008 · No Comments

Japanese Americans celebrate the hiring of new Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu, Major League Baseball’s first Asian American manager.

FoxNews.com relives the bloody World War II battle for the tiny atoll, Tarawa.

Leslie Kitashima-Gray’s The Pink Dress, a play about the internment experience, returns to the Japanese American National Museum in December.

Jazz music flourishes in Japanese cafes.

The Japanese American experience is honored at San Francisco’s Presidio.

Decades later, the stigma of Japanese American internment lives on.

Categories: Japan news · Japanese American internment · Japanese Americans · Sports
Tagged: don wakamatsu, internment, jazz in japan

Tuesday bullets

August 12, 2008 · No Comments

It’s never too late to go to college or to start learning English. In some cases, it’s never too late to do both, even if you are in your 70s. Says Elizabeth Davies from the Rockford Register Star:

The Japanese retirees have been coming to Rockford every summer since 2000 for intensive English lessons at Rockford College. Unlike many who enroll in English as a Second Language courses, the Toyoshimas aren’t trying to advance their careers or fit in with the American culture. Rather, they simply appreciate the challenge.

If you are a Japanese Delegate from Awaji, there’s nothing better than spending some time at a hog farm in St. Marys, OH. Or is there?

The Anti-Defamation League has started a new online curriculum designed to teach the problems associated with stereotyping, racial profiling and prejudice. The curriculum centers around the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Heather Knight from the San Francisco Chronicle describes a gathering of Japanese Americans this weekend, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s internment apology.

Choose your favorite American Ninja Warrior. Seriously. This is not a joke.

Categories: Entertainment · Japanese American internment
Tagged: hog farm, internment, ninja

Wednesday bullets

August 6, 2008 · No Comments

Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Let’s all do our best to ensure that there is peace in this world and that tragedies like the one in 1945 never happen again.

Speaking of which, a ceremony in Oak Ridge held a ceremony for that very purpose. Be sure to check out the next issue of the Hawaii Herald to read about the Hiroshima Commemoration and Peace Service at the Izumo Taishakyo Mission here in Honolulu.

High school students from Ohio and Japan blend their cultures as part of the Saitama-Ohio sister-state relationship. Click here to find out how Bruce Springsteen was involved.

Are you an American male? Are you older than 18 and younger than 30? Shorter than 6-feet-2? Well, you could be an extra in a new movie about the final days of World War II.

Haley Ishimatsu is a fourth-generation Japanese-American who’s grandparents were interned during World War II. On August 12, she will compete for America in the Olympics. David Woods of the Indy Star writes this interesting story.

Photos: From today’s Hiroshima Commemoration and Peace Service at the Izumo Taishakyo Mission in Honolulu.

Categories: Japanese American internment · Updates
Tagged: hiroshima anniversary

Wednesday bullets

July 30, 2008 · No Comments

Despite high levels of smoking, Japanese hearts are staying healthy thanks to fish.

Former internees in San Jose preserve their history through oral histories.

“Big Dreams, Little Tokyo,” a movie about a Japanese American sumo wrestler, is starting to make waves in film festivals.

442nd soldiers are the inspiration for a DC comics mini-series called Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion.

Categories: 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team · Food · Japanese American internment
Tagged: 442, fish, the lost battalion

Big JACL event this weekend

July 10, 2008 · No Comments

The JACL is holding a special event this weekend. They are honoring three important individuals with their Distinguished Service Award: Robert K. Bratt, Betsy Young and Jane Kurahara.

During World War II, over 2,400 Japanese Americans in Hawaii were interned in camps. Two of the largest internment camps in Hawaii were on Oahu: Honouliuli and Sand Island. Over 1,500 Japanese Americans statewide were also evacuated and displaced from their homes. There were 23 evacuation areas (Artillery Battery - Pauoa Valley, Dillingham Airfield, Dillingham and Oahu Railroad, Haiku, Haleiwa, Hilo, Iwilei, Kahuku, Koloa, Kualoa Park, Kuicha, Kunia, Lualualei, Makalii Valley, Maunawili, Mokapu Peninsula, Pearl City, Pearl Harbor areas [West Loch, Pueuloa, McGrew Point], Wahiawa, Waialua, Waiau, Waiawa, and Waipio Base). In 1988, the United States government issued an apology and reparations of $20,000 to surviving internees and evacuees.

Bratt was the first director of the Office of Redress Administration after Congress passed the landmark reparations bill. He demonstrated great compassion and a tireless commitment to ensure that all Hawaii internees and evacuees received justice and an apology from the President of the United States and $20,000 redress.

Young and Kurahara are long time volunteers of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii and co-managed the Resource Center. Their pioneering vision and dedication to preserving the Honouliuli site and educating the community about Hawaii’s internment story culminated in the historic Honouliuli pilgrimage and summit on March 2, 2008.

The event takes place this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii’s 5th Floor Manoa Ballroom. Tickets are $30 for JACL members/seniors and $40 for non-members. Table sponsorships are available. For more information, call Shawn Benton at 808-523-8464, email slmbenton@gmail.com or go to http://www.jaclhawaii.org

Categories: Japanese American internment · Updates
Tagged: jacl