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Pearl Harbor memorial service in Hawaii to move to new site

December 10, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HONOLULU (AP) — The National Park Service and the U.S. Navy plan to hold a joint memorial service Monday to mark the 74th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. The joint service is a rehearsal for what is expected to be a much bigger memorial service next year to mark the 75th anniversary of the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, KITV, Kilo Pier, National Park Service, Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, Vol 34 No 51 | December 12 - December 18, japan

Bodies retrieved from Mount Rainier: Southeast Asia Intel Managing Director Uday Marty identified

August 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Gene Johnson Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The location of the three bodies was revealed by the melting snow, but getting to them was another matter. They were high on a glacier at one of the most treacherous spots on Mount Rainier, an area pummeled by falling ice and rocks. So rangers borrowed a […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: American Express, Associated Press, Carbon Glacier, Denali National Park, Doug Uttecht, Follow Johnson, Joe Reichert, Liberty Ridge, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service, New York Uday Marty, Patti Wold, Seattle-based Alpine Ascents International, Singapore Seattle, Southeast Asia

$2.9 million will go to Japanese American confinement sites

June 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last week, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced 21 grants totaling more than $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese Americans. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned by the U.S. government following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2014, Bainbridge Island, Congressional Gold Medal, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, Japanese Americans, Kara Miyagishima, National Park Service, Panama Hotel, Pearl Harbor, Puyallup Assembly Center, Seattle Temporary Detention Facility, Vol 33 No 26 | June 21 - June 27, War Relocation Authority

New bill would ‘properly recognize’ Bainbridge memorial

June 5, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On May 28, Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced a bill to officially recognize a new name for the Bainbridge Island memorial to Japanese Americans forced from their homes during World War II. The legislation ensures the site is properly recognized as the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Bainbridge Island City Council, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial, Clarence Moriwaki, Frank Kitamoto, Japanese Americans, Jason Phelps, National Park Service, Val Tollefson, Vol 33 No 24 | June 7 - June 13

New collection of images depicts WWII Japanese internment camp Minidoka

May 16, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Signe Predmore Northwest Asian Weekly When President Bill Clinton designated the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho as a National Park in 2001, Teresa Tamura realized that although she grew up not three hours away from the site, she knew little about it.

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, Ansel Adams, Bainbridge Island, Fumiko Hayashida, Idaho State, Japanese Americans, National Park Service, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Northwest, Teresa Tamura, Vol 33 No 21 | May 17 - May 23, West Coast Japanese, attention

Battle for Vashon landmark ongoing — Appeals court allows Friends of Mukai case to continue

January 16, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz     Northwest Asian Weekly A recent Court of Appeals ruling granted a group known as Friends of Mukai the opportunity for a trial court to hear its case against the current owners of a King County landmark. The Friends of Mukai argue that the Mukai House and Garden on Vashon Island should […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Glenda Pearson, Island Landmarks, Jason Cruz, King County, Lynn Grenier, Masahiro Mukai, Mukai Farms, National Park Service, National Register, Northwest Asian Weekly, Robert Krinsky, United States, Vashon Islanders, Vol 33 No 4 | January 18 - January 24

Airport fence through Ore. internment camp opposed

August 3, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Japanese-American groups and individuals are questioning plans to build a fence around the Tulelake Airport that would cut through the site of the World War II era Tule Lake internment camp.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2013, Mike Reynolds, Mitch Crosby, Modoc County, National Park Service, Pearl Harbor, San Francisco-based Tule Lake Committee, Tule Lake Unit, Tulelake Airport, Vol 32 No 32 | August 3 - August 9

Tule Lake Committee receives grant for prison restoration

April 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

National Park Service director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced on April 6 that the NPS Japanese American Confinement Sites Program awarded the Tule Lake Committee with a $192,467 grant to begin restoration work for the concrete jail located on the Tule Lake National Historic Landmark segregation center property.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2013, Japanese Americans, National Park Service, Tule Lake Committee, Tule Lake National Historic Landmark, Vol 32 No 16 | April 13 - April 19

EDITORIAL: Hope coming in the Year of the Snake

February 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last year, during the opening of the Year of the Dragon, the Northwest Asian Weekly wished for a few things. We wished that the economy would improve. We wished that business would go up. We wished for less vacant properties in the International District.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2013, International District, Massive Monkees, National Park Service, Northwest Asian Weekly, President Obama, Union Station, Vol 32 No 8 | February 16 - February 22, Wing Luke, parking

The Wing receives distinction from National Park Service

February 14, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Deanna Duff Northwest Asian Weekly The Wing Luke Museum celebrated the Lunar New Year by embarking on a new chapter in its own future. Visiting U.S.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2013, Asian American Homelessness, Asian Pacific American, Assistant Secretary, Casey Bui, East Kong Yick Building, Interior Ken Salazar, International District, Jim McDermott, John Travis, National Park Service, Patty Murray, Rhea Suh, Senator Maria Cantwell, Senator Murray, The Wing, Vol 32 No 8 | February 16 - February 22, Wing Luke Executive Director Beth Takekawa

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