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A lesson from the past, for our future

April 7, 2016 By Andrew Hamlin

Japanese American Fred Korematsu (1919–2005), a Nisei, made American legal history in 1942. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, he fought against his government-mandated internment in a camp.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, Feature stories Tagged With: 2016, American Civil Liberties Union, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese American Fred Korematsu, Japanese Americans, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Korematsu Center, Lorraine Bannai, Mexican American Studies, Middle Eastern, Min Yasui, Northwest Asian Weekly, Peter Irons, Presidential Medal, Professor Lorraine Bannai, San Leandro, Seattle University, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Tucson Unified School District, United States, VOL 35 NO 15 | APRIL 9 – APRIL 15, West Coast

Robert Shimabukuro featured speaker for Day of Remembrance

March 14, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Feb. 18, South Seattle College hosted noted author and historian Robert Shimabukuro as the featured speaker for the annual Day of Remembrance. This annual event marks the anniversary that President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the evacuation and incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, living on the West Coast, most of whom were U.S. […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, Camp Minidoka, Executive Order, Robert Shimabukuro, South Seattle College, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, West Coast

Hawaii plantation to stop growing sugar

January 16, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s last sugar plantation is getting out of the sugar-growing business, signaling the end of an industry that once powered the local economy and lured thousands of immigrants to the islands.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Alexander Baldwin Inc, Associated Press, Brian Schatz, CEO, China, Christopher Benjamin, Hawaiian Commercial Sugar, Hawaiian Kingdom, Korea, Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa, Philippines, Portugal, United States, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, West Coast

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

First Chinese private development firm breaks ground on Bellevue project

August 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Create World America and Daniels Real Estate Company announced Aug. 17 that they have broken ground on the Mirador in downtown Bellevue.  Located at 1019- 103rd street, it will be a contemporary, six-story, 162 unit apartment home located in the retail district of Bellevue.  The Mirador apartment is the first phase of a residential project […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Business, Community News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Beijing, China, Chinn Construction, Councilmember Conrad Lee, Create World America, Daniels Real Estate Company, First Chinese, Greater Seattle, Kevin Daniels, Lease Crutcher Lewis, Tom Yang, United States, Vol 34 No 35 | August 22 - August 28, West Coast, culture

Confused about the Seattle minimum wage changes? — Here’s how it works

April 10, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Donna Gordon Blankinship Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s new $15 minimum wage law began going into effect last Wednesday, nearly a year after this pricey West Coast city was celebrated by activists as the first metropolis to push employers into providing higher wages. The fast food workers who staged walkouts to advance the […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Nick Hanauer, President Barack Obama, San Francisco, Several Seattle, Vol 34 No 16 | April 11 - April 17, West Coast

Diversity at the top: Don’t wind up in court! — Advice from Judge Ketu Shah

October 16, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Peggy Chapman Northwest Asian Weekly Ketu Shah never imagined he would be a judge. He visualized himself as an engineer, and took the practical classes in school—physics and <!–more–>calculus—and then, since he didn’t have much interest, he took an interest in philosophy. Shah is the first Indian American judge to serve for the King […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Diversity at the Top 2014, Indian American, Judge Ketu Shah, Ketu Shah, King County District Court, Nigeria, Northwest Asian Weekly, Peggy Chapman, Seattle, Vol 33 No 43 | October 18 - October 24, West Coast, Whitman College, culture

Deco-dense

August 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Xiaojin Wu, curator at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, shows me a Japanese piece that’s been first lacquered, then carved. The artist, she explains, put several layers of lacquer on first, then slowly, steadily, and taking great care for symmetry, carved the Art Deco designs into the lacquer. Many […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Art Deco, California State University, Europe, Kanto Earthquake, Kirin Ornaments Kirin, Long Beach, Machine Age, Noguchi Tsurukichi, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 32 | August 2 - August 8, West Coast, Xiaojin Wu, attention, japan

1-man-show tells story of Gordon Hirabayashi

July 11, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Joel de la Fuente stars in Jeanne Sakata’s one-man show, “Hold These Truths,” inspired by the true story of University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi as he fought the U.S. government’s forcible and unconstitutional removal and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast during World War II.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, ACT, Asian Pacific American Experience, Frank Abe, Gordon Hirabayashi, Jeanne Sakata, Seattle, Stephen Sumida, Union Street, Vol 33 No 29 | July 12 - July 18, West Coast, Wing Luke Museum

China ends ban on West Coast geoducks

May 30, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press SEATTLE – China has lifted a five-month-long ban on live shellfish from U.S. West Coast waters.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Asia, China, Derek Kilmer, Hong Kong, Northern California, Puget Sound, Vietnam, West Coast

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