\\ \\'\\.I'ACIFlCClTlZEl\.ORG Proving [nnocence torlno a006 Name for the Times Jessica Sanders followed Q~ 9 Utah's natural monument her instincts to make a to railroad workers gets a documentary about the respectful name. wrongfullyly convicted. PAGE 3 , ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 9 A Street for Mine sinceI929PACIFIC CITIZEN Artist Mine Okubo is honored posthumously., The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League PAGES #3052/ Vol. 142, No.4 ISSN: 0030-8579 MAR. 3-16, 2006 Notice: Japantown for Sale With two malls, two hotels, that several properties in Japantown 11,000 signatures, some from as far and a theatre up for sale in are up for sale - including two away as England. San Francisco's Japantown, malls, two hotels, and a theatre - "We're losing three-quarters of many worry about the his­ Kitashima, a 22-year-old San Japantown, it's a real eye-opener," toric area's survival. Francisco State University student, said Kitashima, who is the grandson worries about the survival of of local icon Sox Kitashima who Japantown. The timing couldn't be recently passed away. "If [my By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM more ironic: this year Japantown is grandmother] was still here, she Executive Editor celebrating its 100th year anniver­ would do practically the same When Aaron Kitashima thinks of sary. thing." "We're trying to preserve the her­ "home" he doesn't talk about a Refusing to sit back and stay silent, Kitashima has launched a itage and culture of Japantown for house or the city where he lives. For The AMC Kabuki Theatre and the Radisson Miyako Hotel are some petition drive to protest the sale of all Japanese Americans," he added. Kitashima, home is San Francisco's of the properties currently up for sale in San Francisco's Japantown. Japantown, an historic area where the properties and "possible destruc­ "We need to make sure the later he grew up and where his family has tion of San Francisco's Japantown" generations remember the history of the company to sell its properties in Theatre, the home of several events deep roots in the local Japanese (http://www.PetitionOnline.com/jto Japantown." Japantown which include the including the San Francisco American community. wn/petition.html.), one of only three In late December Kintetsu of Miyako and Kintetsu Malls, and the International Asian American Film With the recent announcement Japantowns left in the country. So America Corporation announced Miyako Hotel and the Miyako Inn far the petition has collected over that fmancial difficulties had forced Best Western. The AMC Kabuki See JAPANTOWNlPage 12 Groups Hope to Raise Preservation Tule Lake, Granadal Maritime Museum Criticized lor Funds lor Historic Harada House Amache Are One-Sided Telling 01 WWII History The Harada House, badly ernment and its anti-Asian Alien Officially Named damaged in the recent rains, Land Laws of the time. Although National Landmarks is the historic site where a Jukichi, a restauranteur, as a .oneering battle .a ai st Japanese immigrant could not own By P.e. Staff and Associated Press racist Alien Land Laws took land, he bequeathed the Riverside place. home to three of his'children, U.S.­ Part of Tule Lake Segregation born citizens. Center and the Granada!Amache Jukichi's actions in 1915 would Relocation Center have been offi­ By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM encounter the wrath of his White cially designated a National Executive Editor neighbors and would eventually Historical Landmark. land him in court in the landmark U.S. Secretary of the Interior Naomi Harada can still remember The USS Yorktown and a poster of the WWII film the museum plays. case California vs. Harada. The Gale A. Norton signed the designa­ the change in her father Harold's case was unprecedented and in 1918 tions just days before Day of virtual enemies who looked like his voice every time he would speak ' The program includes a the Riverside County Superior Remembrance events commemo­ father. He quietly ingested these about the two-story house located wartime documentary and Court would side with Jukichi, rated across the nation. The images and listened to his friends on the quiet, pepper tree-lined street flight simulator, which allowing his children ownership of National Historic Landmark desig­ joke about the "enemies" until he in Riverside, Calif. encourages children to shoot nation is the highest such recogni­ returned to his Atlanta, Georgia For the Harada fami­ down Japanese enemies. tion for historic properties. Fewer home where the tears flowed freely. ly, the house repre­ than 2,500 historic places carry the By LYNDA LIN "When he got back from the trip, sents so many mem­ title. Assistant Editor it looked like he was run over by a ories; stories that Tule Lake's 42-acre landmark truck!" said Elizabeth Tanaka about span a century of For Kenji Tanaka, 9, a weekend area includes the former stockade, her son. "Kenji didn't do the simula­ Japanese American field trip to a maritime museum in the motor pool and portions of the tor because he.said it's like shooting history. South Carolina became a test of former military pOlice compound. his dad. He said 'I feel like people This is the house character. Along with his peers, he No public lands are included. The hate me.' My son was crying for where Naomi's watched a World War n documen­ Granada!Amache camp currently half an hour." grandfather Jukichi tary with images of American pilots includes a system of historic road­ Elizabeth couldn't believe her Harada fought for a getting ready to fight the Japanese ways and barrack foundations as ears - the Tanakas like to instill better life for his wife The historic Harada House sits on a residential and then watched his friends climb and six children, tak- street in Riverside, California. See TUlE LAKE/Page 2 into a flight simulator to shoot down See MUSEUMlPage 4 ing on a historic bat- tle with the U.S. gov- See HARADA/Page 6 Woman's Miscarriage May Point Phoenix :Qjsin&: Leadership for a New to Failures in Immigration Law genera:bon Critics say the government violated the woman's civil rights with immediate deporta­ ·tion efforts. A bill being considered by ,Congress could increase these types of removals. By LYNDA LIN , Assistant Editor JACL National Convention . Zhenxing Jiang suffered the miscarriage, but her commu­ June 21-24, 2006 nity shares in the pain and outrage. Asian Pacific American' and human rights groups are rallying for justice for the 32- Chandler, Arizona year-old Philadelphia resident who lost twin babies while government officials were trying to deport her. Jiang, who was 13 and one-half weeks pregnant, immi­ Zhenxing Jiang recovers at a hospital shortly grated illegally to the United States with her husband 10 15 after her miscarriage. WEEIiS PHOTO: Jacky Tik Wong, Sing Tao Daily See IMMIGRATlONIPage 11 2 LEITERS/NATIONAL PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAR. 3-16,2006 COMMENTARY f' PACIAC CmZEN ~ 2005 WINNEal ~~u~Editor The Home Stretch for Minidoka #i- HEW AMERICA 'YJMEDIA By JOHN TATEISm tion. ~ Awards In Writing .A Looking for SRHS Donations Needed for JACL Executive Director Two weeks later, Bill Clinton Graduates Japanese Cemetery signed a presidential order designat­ In December 2003, in the week ing' among other things, Minidoka The Japanese Ancestral Society of I am writing to ask for your between Christmas and New Year's, as protected ·land under the PACIFIC CITIZEN Portland is appealing to former help in locating the' following ·I got a call from Dan Sakura, a Antiquities Act. And that eventually 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, . Japanese American students who Portlanders to send contributions for Sansei who worked in the Clinton authorized the National Park Service Los Angeles, CA. 90012 were interred in the Spring of the maintenance of their Japanese White House to launch an administrative study to Tel: 213/620-1767, 1942 from Santa Rosa High cemetery. This appeal is especially to in the office of plan the preservation of Minidoka 800/966-6157 School in Santa Rosa, California. those wh.o have family buried at the environmental for the future. Fax: 213/620-1768 cemetery. affairs. Dan is now with the Conservation E-mail: [email protected] SRHS is in search of these past With only a Fund as the Director of Government www.pacificcitizen.org students for the purpose of issuing Contributions may be sent Mr. few days left in Relations and still working on pre­ to them the high school diplomas Kay Endo, Cemetery Fund the year, Dan serving Minidoka as a tribute to Executive Editor: that they were denied so many Treasurer, 4423 SE Railroad Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom had what I those who spent the war years there. years ago. Avt<nue, Milwaukie, Oregon, 97222. Assistant Editor: thought was a The Conservation Fund has raised or Lynda Lin Asano Kasai, Fred Kasai, Tokie ~r/~ crazy thought, given that Bill committed funds to the purchase of Office Manager: Kasai, Jack Kimura, Manabu Chair, Cemetery Committee Clinton was about to leave office and lands adjacent to Minidoka, but there Brian Tanaka Kimura, Suea Kimura, Hazine o hand the government over to George is unfinished business there. ,. Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting Mayeda, Shigato Mayeda, Mary Bush. Dan's idea was to find a way March 17, just days away, is the . Publisher:Japanese American Morikawa, Mae Murakami, Mary Memorial Should · to designate one of the World War II deadline for raisillg the remaining Citizens League (founded 1929) Otsuka, Yukio Sameshima . Include Mitsuye Endo internment camps as a historic land­ $250,000 to purchase the 120 acres , mark and preserve it forever.