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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

“Flower Drum Song” lead James Shigeta dies at 85

August 10, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Shigeta, who played the lead in the 1961 movie musical

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Asian Americans, Beverly Hills, Die Hard, Ellie Shigeta, Flower Drum Song, James Shigeta, Los Angeles Times, TV, Vol 33 No 33 | August 9 - August 15

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

Alex Tizon: One Asian man in search of self

June 26, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Daria Kroupoderova Northwest Asian Weekly In the dimly lit basement of Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company on the evening of June 18, Alex Tizon, author of “Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self,” told his audience to turn to one another and say “You’re fat!” with a genuine smile.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2014, Alex Tizon One Asian, Big Little Man, Chinese, Daria Kroupoderova, Everything Tizon, Ferdinand Magellan, Filipino, Los Angeles Times, Northwest Asian Weekly, Philippines, Pulitzer Prize, Seattle Elliott Bay Book Company, Spain, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 33 No 27 | June 28 - July 4

Investigation in Vietnamese woman’s L.A. beating death stymied by silence

February 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SANTA ANA (AP) – Police detectives are having trouble unraveling a nightclub brawl that left a 23-year-old Vietnamese American woman dead because they can’t identify many of the victim’s friends and others won’t talk to them.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Chapman University, Huntington Beach, Ken Nguyen, Kim Pham, Los Angeles Times, Orange County, Police Commander Tim Vu, Santa Ana, United States, Vietnam War, Vietnamese Americans, Vol 33 No 6 | February 1 - February 7

Sriracha hot sauce maker sued for plant’s strong odor

November 2, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press IRWINDALE (AP) — City of Irwindale, Calif., files lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, says plant is public nuisance. The maker of Sriracha hot sauce is under fire for allegedly fouling the air around its Southern California factory. The city of Irwindale filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, David Tran, Huy Fong Foods, Irwindale City Attorney Fred Galante, Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, Los Angeles Times, Southern California, Sriracha Festival, Vol 32 No 45 | November 2 - November 8

Bruce Lee statue debuts in LA Chinatown

June 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A bronze statue of martial arts star Bruce Lee has been unveiled in Los Angeles’ Chinatown to mark the neighborhood’s 75th anniversary.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2013, Bruce Lee, Chinese Americans, Green Hornet, Larry Jung, Los Angeles Chinatown Corporation, Los Angeles Times, TV, United States, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28

Little Saigon gets first Vietnamese American mayor

November 17, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — The first Vietnamese-American mayor of Westminster will earn just $900 a month, and the authority he holds in this Southern California city is limited. But as the incoming leader of a city in the heart of Little Saigon — the largest Vietnamese district outside Vietnam — Tri Ta’s […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, Australia, Europe, Little Saigon, Los Angeles Times, Madison Nguyen, New York, Northern California, Orange County, Radio Free Asia, San Jose, Southern California, Two Vietnamese Americans, Van Tran, Vietnam Tri Ta, Vol 31 No 47 | November 17 - November 23, WESTMINSTER

Vietnamese Poet Du Tu Le exhibited at Renton restaurant

November 5, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Oil paintings of Vietnamese poet Lê Cự Phách, better known by his pen name Du Tử Lê, were exhibited at Spring Taste restaurant in Renton on Saturday, Oct. 20. The event was sponsored by Seabeez and Comcast.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Du Tu Le, Garden Grove, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Risa Janzen, Ruta Publisher Mohamud Yssuf, South Vietnam, Spring Taste, Vietnamese, Vol 31 No 45 | November 3 - November 9

School district flooded with thousands of records requests

September 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of illegal immigrants have inundated the nation’s second-largest school district with requests for copies of records that might qualify them for the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the district said Monday, Sept. 17.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, Bell High School Principal Rafael Balderas, Education, El Salvador, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lydia Ramos, Obama, Saul Berrera, Superintendent John Deasy, United States, Vol 31 No 39 | September 22 - September 28

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