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No consensus about legality of Trump’s idea of Muslim ban

December 20, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the high court would react to Republican […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Associated Press, Donald Trump, Eric Posner, First Amendment, Kathleen Hennessey, Pearl Harbor, Peter Spiro, San Bernardino, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Suzanna Sherry, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Temple University, United States, Vanderbilt University, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Japanese-American WWII war hero Ben Kuroki dies

September 10, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Ben Kuroki, who overcame the American military’s discriminatory policies to become the only Japanese American to fly over Japan during World War II, has died. He was 98. Kuroki died Tuesday at his Camarillo, California, home, where he was under hospice care, his daughter Julie Kuroki told the Los Angeles Times […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: Army Air Forces, Army Distinguished Service Medal, Ben Kuroki, CAMARILLO, Distinguished Flying Cross, England, Europe, Japanese Americans, Julie Kuroki, Los Angeles Times, Morocco, North Africa, Pearl Harbor, Vol 34 No 38| September 12 - September 18, War Department, West Coast

COMMENTARY: My wish for the Japanese American community

January 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Louise Kashino Takisaki Northwest Asian Weekly My dedication to support the Nisei Veterans Committee is because of the importance of preserving our history, especially during WWII. Our mission at NVC is to “Honor the Past; Educate the Future.” The history books have included very little on the Japanese incarceration during WWII, so it is […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Asian Community, Bainbridge Island Japanese, Europe, Executive Order, Japanese American, NVC, Nisei Veterans Committee, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pearl Harbor, Regimental Combat, Shiro Kashino, Top Contributor, United States, Vol 34 No 5 | January 24 - January 30, WWII

Top Contributors honored

December 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Minal Singh Northwest  Asian Weekly Every year, the Northwest Asian Weekly and Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation hold a banquet in honor of the Top Contributors to the Asian Community in the past year. These honorees are passionate about improving their communities in such areas as education, health, activism, and politics.

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2014, API, Asian Community, Cornerstone Medical, Fred Yee, Frieda Takamura, Hong Restaurant, Korean, NAAAP, Nisei Veterans Club, Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation, Pearl Harbor, Sherwin Tsao, Top Contributors 2014, Vol 33 No 51 | December 13 - December 19, WWII, Washington State Senator-elect, top contributors

No textbooks! — Books you will actually want to read

September 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Nisei Daughter By Monica Sone University of Washington Press, 2014 Growing up in Seattle in the 1920s and 1930s, Monica Sone constantly battled with her Japanese heritage and her American home. From the time she was 5 and told by her parents that she and her older brother Henry […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, Aman Sethi, Beggars Court, China, Lu Hsiu-lien, Meet Mohammad Ashraf, Monica Sone, Nationalist Party, Nisei Daughter, Northwest Asian Weekly, Norton Company, Old Delhi Railway Station, Pearl Harbor, Seattle, Taiwan, United States, Vol 33 No 38 | September 13 - September 19, Washington Press

China gives a rare glimpse at Naval ships

July 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Marco Garcia Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) – China gave Western journalists a rare look aboard two People’s Liberation Army vessels on July 5 during the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises in Hawaii, showcasing a hospital ship with complex medical facilities and a destroyer flying U.S. and Chinese flags.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Ark Peace, Associated Press, China, Chinese, Colombia, Japan Maritime Self Defense, Liberation Army, New Zealand, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, United States, Vol 33 No 29 | July 12 - July 18

Graduation heals Calif. man’s World War II internment wounds

June 28, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, California (AP) – A California man who missed his 1942 high school graduation because he was locked in an internment camp for Japanese Americans finally walked in a cap and gown this June, more than seven decades after he was pulled out of class just a month shy of his […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Don Miyada, Europe, Japanese Americans, Los Angeles Times, Memorial Day, Michigan State University, Newport Harbor High School, Pearl Harbor, Sean Boulton, Vol 33 No 27 | June 28 - July 4, letter

$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

The Layup Drill — Racism in NFL, baseball is back, and good news for UW golfer

March 28, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Racism alive and well in the NFL? Former University of Missouri football player Michael Sam made waves with his

Filed Under: Sports, The Layup Drill Tagged With: 2014, American League Cy Young Award, British Open, Derek Jeter, Jonathan Martin, Leslie Chow, Miami Dolphins, Michael Sam, NFL, New England Patriots, Pearl Harbor, Richie Incognito, Rob Gronkowski, UW, Vol 33 No 14 | March 29 - April 4, World Amateur Rankings, Yankee Hideki Matsui, jersey

Admiral Nimitz’s WWII diary is posted online

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Michelle R. Smith ASSOCIATED PRESS PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The U.S. Naval War College released a trove of World War II information Monday by posting online the operational diary kept by the Pacific commander, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, during the war against Japan. The 4,000-page multivolume collection includes a running summary of the situation […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Admiral Nimitz, John Hattendorf, Naval War College Foundation, PROVIDENCE, Pearl Harbor, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7, WWII

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