Japanese Americans have some handy labels with which to identify ourselves. Nikkei, referring to emigrants from Japan and their descendants, works rather nicely. Yes, it does lump us in with people of other nationalities, and sure, it has probably confused its share of stockbrokers, but these minor details haven’t diminished its omnipresence in our lives.
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Alec Yoshio MacDonald’s article “Check the Label” published in Nichi Bei Times
Journalist Roxana Saberi has been released
Roxana Saberi is an Iranian/Japanese American journalist, who was arrested in Iran in February 2009 for working as a reporter without press credentials – her credentials were revoked in 2006. On April 8, 2009, the Iranian government charged Saberi with espionage, and she was subsequently sentenced to an eight-year prison term. An appeals court reduced [...]
Halvsie Ehren Watada’s case has been dismissed
Ehren Watada is a First Lieutenant of the United States Army who in June, 2006, refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit’s assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him party to war crimes. At [...]
