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Our Arts & Culture Critics Recommend These 60 Events This Week
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Noir City, Akio Takamori's Apology Series, A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment, And More Picks For Feb 13-19 by Stranger Things To Do Staff This week, our arts and culture critics have picked the best events in every genre, and we've compiled them below...
Barack Obama Has Handed a Lethal Deportation Machine to Trump's Gang of White Nationalists
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Click here for reuse options! Forced expulsions. Family incarceration. Border militarization. Democrats provided precedent for Trump's draconian agenda. On January 18, Barack Obama used his final press conference as president to pledge to the public...
Saburo and Ann Sasaki, Manzanar volunteers, receive national recognition
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Press release Each year, more than 440,000 people volunteer for the National Park Service (NPS). This year, from among them, the NPS recognized Manzanar Volunteers Saburo and Ann Sasaki with the prestigious Hartzog Enduring Service Award. NPS Director...
SLJ’s August Popular Picks
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SLJ‘s August 2016 Popular Picks feature some great titles that your kids and teens will be clamoring for. This month, check out the latest from Nicola Yoon; Dan Santat’s newest early reader, part of Mo Willems’s “Elephant and Piggie Like Reading” series...
Rep. Mike Honda, Who Lived Through Japanese Internment Camp, Condemns Immigrant Registry
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Congressman Mike Honda, who was forced into a Japanese-American internment camp as an infant during the World War II era, condemned recent remarks by a Donald Trump supporter who cited the camps as a “precedent” for an immigrant registry. Honda, 75...

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Naomi Ostwald Kawamura: Building Community and Connection that Transcends Borders

In early March, I had the opportunity to be part of the 2024 Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD), a program jointly supported by the US-Japan Council and Japan’s Ministry of... The post Naomi Ostwald Kawamura: Building Community and Connection...
The Densho Legacy Archive Offers a Glimpse into Hard Work and Passion That Built Densho

Densho Project Archivist Will Allen has been helping to create Densho’s Legacy Archive, an archive of Densho’s organizational records since its founding in 1996. Will shares some highlights from this... The post The Densho Legacy Archive Offers a Glimpse...
“Little Benedict Arnolds in Skirts”: The Shitara Sisters’ Scandalous WWII Treason Trial

In late 1943, three Japanese American sisters helped two German prisoners of war escape from a southern Colorado POW camp. The men were soon caught and sensationalized stories of “Japanazi... The post “Little Benedict Arnolds in Skirts”: The Shitara...
Take Action to Stop the Fence at Tule Lake!

Tule Lake is under threat AGAIN. Despite more than a decade of strong opposition from camp survivors and descendants, the Federal Aviation Administration and Modoc County are renewing their attempts... The post Take Action to Stop the Fence at Tule...
Seattle’s Japantown Was Once Part of a Bustling Red Light District — Until Its “Troublesome” Residents Were Pushed Out

In Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City historian Megan Asaka examines the erased histories of the communities who built Seattle. In this... The post Seattle’s Japantown Was Once Part of a Bustling Red...

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Densho Teach-In - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

[Update, March 14, 2016: Due to the overwhelming popularity of our first Digital Teach-In, we’ve scheduled a second one to be held May 1-6, 2016. Sign up here and please...
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8 Lessons in Resistance from Tule Lake

8 Lessons in Resistance from Tule Lake August 9, 2018 “Kodomo no tame ni. They’re our children, set them free.” In a protest at the site of the old Tule Lake jail earlier this month, survivors ...