COMMENTARY: Democracy Trumped by the JANM Board of Trustees!
What Happened at the Day of Remembrance, 2020 On Saturday, Feb. 15, the 41st annual…
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COMMENTARY: Omission of Hirono Statement Puts Democracy in Jeopardy
By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor The theme for this year’s Day of Remembrance in Los…
VOX POPULI: An Open Letter
By MIKE MURASE Dear Secretary Norman Mineta and Trustees of Japanese American National Museum (JANM):…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thoughts on Hirono Video and 501(c) Tax Status
Editor: As an attendee of the JANM sponsored program, Day of Remembrance, I was surprised…
J-TOWN BEAT: What’s Good for Little Tokyo
By GWEN MURANAKA Published Feb. 15, 2020 What’s good for Little Tokyo? That was the…
VOX POPULI: Fond Farewell to ‘Fresh Off the Boat’
By GUY AOKI It’s really difficult knowing “Fresh Off the Boat” will leave the airwaves…
J-TOWN BEAT: Marking Life and Death in Kobe Time
By GWEN MURANAKA Surreal. Shocking. It can’t be true. It was a ripple of shock,…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Seeking First-Grade Manzanar Classmates
Dear Editor, Each year three classmates of the Manzanar internment camp first-grade class of 1944-1945…
J-TOWN BEAT: Ready, Set, Go 2020!
By GWEN MURANAKA, Rafu Senior Editor 2019 was a year of anticipation. At the JACCC,…
J-TOWN BEAT: When the Shooter Is Nikkei
By GWEN MURANAKA Nathaniel Berhow joins a growing list of young men who have turned…
THROUGH THE FIRE: Crystal City Camp-u, Crystal City Camp-u yo
By SHARON YAMATO No one knew the lyrics of the Crystal City song at first,…
RAMBLINGS FROM THE SON OF A PAPER SON: Uncle Hiro
By WILLIAM YEE Recently the last of the Nisei generation in the Morimizu clan passed…