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Elsie Taniguchi — Spreading love in response to war-time internment experience

November 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yiqin Weng Northwest Asian Weekly Elsie Taniguchi, a 79-year-old Japanese American, describes herself as a volunteer. She has been the president of the Puyallup Valley Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) for 17 years. Taniguchi and her colleagues in JACL are now focusing on a subcommittee called “Camp Harmony Committee” to tell the next generation […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Bill Tashima, Camp Harmony Committee, Choichi Shimizu, Elsie Taniguchi, Elsie Taniguchi Spreading, Executive Order, JACL, Japanese Americans, Northwest Asian Weekly, Obon Odori, President Roosevelt, United States, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20, Washington State Fairgrounds, Yiqin Weng, culture

JACL collaborates with the Smithsonian

May 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Executive Director Priscilla Ouchida met with Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History John Gray to sign an agreement for JACL to collaborate with the Museum on a 2017 exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066. Signed by President Roosevelt in 1942, Executive Order 9066 led […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Executive Order, JACL, Japanese Americans, National Museum, President Roosevelt, Priscilla Ouchida, Small Documents Gallery, Vol 34 No 19 | May 2 - May 8

Hasegawa, lawmakers, commemorate the Day of Remembrance

March 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

  Legislators commemorated the anniversary of Executive Order 9066 in Olympia which was acknowledged on Feb. 23.  The order was a  wartime measure that sent 120,000 Japanese-Americans to concentration camps. A Senate Resolution honoring what is now called the Day of Remembrance, was offered by Sen. Bob Hasegawa, D-Beacon Hill. “My whole family was sent […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Bob Hasegawa, Boy Scout Troop, Executive Order, President Roosevelt, Puyallup Fairgrounds, Vol 34 No 10 | February 28 - March 6

President Obama meets Japanese American World War II veterans

February 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Feb. 18, President Obama met with seven surviving Japanese American World War II veterans, all in their 90s, to thank them in person for their service.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2014, Congressional Gold Medal, Executive Order, Infantry Battalion, Military Intelligence Service, Oval Office, Pearl Harbor, President Obama, President Roosevelt, Regimental Combat Team, United States Army, Vol 33 No 9 | February 22 - February 28

Blog: Why is business so slow in the ID this summer?

September 2, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Get rid of the drug addicts and panhandlers, and we will visit here more often,” said a white couple at the recent ID Summer Seafair Festival.

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2010, CIDBIA, Chinatown, Don Blakeney, Lake Union, Night Market, President Roosevelt, Publisher Ng's blog, Union Station, Vol 29 No 36 | September 4 - September 10, WFIB, parking

Interned Japanese students receive honorary degrees

June 11, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

For Kimiko Mukai’s 90th birthday, she received an honorary degree. Mukai, a Japanese American who was a sophmore at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) in 1942 (then called Seattle Pacific College), had to suddenly leave school due to an order issued by President Roosevelt. Her education was stopped due to Japanese American internment during WWII.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: Education, Interned Japanese, Japanese American, President Roosevelt, WWII, vol 28 no 25 | June 13 - June 19

Editorial: Why is it important to learn history?

May 7, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Many will say that we learn history so that we won’t repeat our missteps. It’s an easy statement to make but is hard to back up with action …

Filed Under: Opinion, Editorials Tagged With: Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Executive Order, Fred Korematsu, Iraq, Japanese Americans, Justice Hugo Black, Manifest Destiny, President Roosevelt, Seattle University, Supreme Court, United States, WWII

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