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PPACIFIC JACL Marks the 20Th Anniversary of Redress · ~CITIZEN with an Ongoing Series Redress Celebration· PPACIFIC JACL marks the 20th anniversary of Redress · ~CITIZEN with an ongoing series . highlighting the key players of the campaign Protestors and supporters greet Olympic torch-PG 3 The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League NATIONAL l'AGE: 3 01. 146, No.7 ISSN: 0030-8579 www.pacificcitizen.org APR. 18-MAY 1, 2008 A Hometown Remembering ·Her Parents' Illinois Votes to Support Honor for Sadao Nisei WWII Vets Stamp Munemori? Fight to Do What was Right Bill Yoshino, JACL Midwest regional director, provides .A Los Angeles freeway testimony in support of the House resolution. interchange is already named after the Medal of By Pacific Citizen Staff . Honor recipient. Now groups hope the WWII The' grassroots cam­ hero's hometown of paign for a Nisei World War II veterans commem­ Glendale, Calif. will Bainbridge Island orative stamp just got consider naming an Review inspired another boost of support, overpass in his honor. Mary (top) to write a this time from the state of book. lllinois. By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MARY WOC>fJNARD COLLECT1ON I The lllinois House of Executive Editor , Mary Woodward's new her native Bainbridge Island, Representatives adopted book about her parents' Washington. HR 850 on April 9, a res- Janet Nakakihawa, 73, was just a "I have the Woodward name, olution urging the U.S. child when· she last saw her uncle defense of JAs during which is revered on Bainbridge Postal Service's Citizens Sadao Munemori, a decorated World WWII needs help with funding to complete its Island," said Mary, 62, about her Stamp Advisory STAMP TESTIMONY: (L -r) 442nd Vet Sam War II veteran and Medal of Honor parents Walt and Milly Woodward, Committee to issue a Ozaki, Rep. Howard, and Bill Yoshino. recipient. One clear memory she still publication. one. of the few newspaper publishers I c01llIIlemorative stamp - holds onto is of her uncle helping her d~g World W~ II that t~k an edi- honoring the Nisei veterans. The resolution was spearheaded by Rep. make Japanese paper doll clothes. It By LYNDA LIN tonal stance agamst the mtemment Constance Howard. would be her last contact with him Assistant Editor of Japanese Americans. 'The incredi~le acts of sacrifice and valor exhibited by these men are wor­ before his untimely death in 1945. M~ was not born yet when her thy of the greatest respect and admiration and must not be forgotten by sub­ "He really was a very special per­ Mary Woodward has always been parents worked all night on Dec. 7, sequent generations," reads part of the resolution text. son. Now that I'm old and remember a history buff. She majored in it in 1941 - after the Japanese bombed The Japanese American-soldiers of the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat reading letters he wrote to his moth­ college and taught the subject for a Pearl Harbor - on a special edition Team are the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in U.S. mil­ er while he was overseas, he was few yearS afterwards. But she also of their Bainbridge Islarul Review to itary history. The men of the Military Intelligence Service are credited with such a caring person," said the La I knows her family is an intricate part Palma, Calif. resident. I of American history, especially in See WOODWARDIPage 11 :. helping to shorten the length ofWWll See VETS STAMPIPage 10 Munemori's legacy will always be ~AT'L DIR.'$ REPORT a part of his family history but today, With the Calif. Supreme Court's Decision, Nakakihawa is the only living Membership descendant who ever had a chance to Marriage Equality May Become a Reality meet him. Now a group of individu- Goal: 50,000? Back then it was race. Now they have to deal with a . als and organizations hope to help By FLOYD MORI it's sexual orientation. fickle govemment and keep his story alive by naming an changing laws. Does it sound like we harp too Supporters of same-sex overpass in his hometown of "It's funny you call it much on membership? It is marriage hope history will Glendale, c3lif. in his honor. ·a struggle," said extremely important for the sur~ repeat itself 60 years after "Given the climate at the time, the Pauline. "It really is a vival of JACL that we maintain and the court ruled against anti­ mood against Japanese Americans, struggle." increase membership. Tun Koide, miscegenation laws. They met almost a See MUNEMORVPage 16 who was previously an intern in the decade ago as friends, Waslimgton, D.C. JACL office, has By LYNDA LIN but then romance lead .~" 'been hired as the JACL member­ Assistant Editor g:rn~ to marriage and kids. ship coordinator. Larry Grant from FAMILY: .The Guillermo-Togawas want legal Jill and Pauline are reg­ i~ the Wasatch Front North chapter Domestic partnership is becoming recognition for Carmel's (center) sake. cn_ istered as domestic part­ ~ has taken over the position of vice more complex for Jill and Pauline ....... ners under California family code same-sex couples. cn_ president of membership to replace Guillermo-Togawa. Aside from the section 297, which give them almost They're used to the red tape. iilnw Edwin Endow, who had to step daily struggle to balance responsibil­ all of the rights of other married cou­ But in February 2004, Jill and ~n ities as working spouses and parents, r-_ ples, Almost. Pauline got a glimpse of the good ~-I See 50,OOOlPage 12 »- This year, the Bay Area couple life. They along with thousands of ~N received a letter from the state telling other same-sex couples lined up in ::;;1"11 ~Z them to file their taxes jointly. That's front of San Francisco City Hall in » great, but the Internal Revenue the rain to legally marry. For the first U> C> ~ Service still does not recognize See MARRIAGE/Page 13 N ....~ ----~~--~~~ .. Darvish Mania No More White Castle Letters .......... .............. 2 John Cho returns to the big The half Japanese, half National ......................3-5 screen in the 'Harold of Iranian 21-year-old phe­ Community ......; ............ 6-7 Kumar'sequel. nom is creating a buzz in Calendar ..................... 14 both Japan and the U.S. ~its ........................ 15 ·ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 9 SPORTS I'AGE 10 2 APR. lS-MAY 1, 200S LElTERS/SPRING CAMPAIGN PACIfiC B CmzEN ~QPACIFIC ~.""CITIZEN Letters to the Editor 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, Los Angeles, CA. 90012 Tel: 213/620-1767, 66 Years After E.O. 9066, Where DQ We Stand? .. ing them available to local historians. Second, one of these historians . 800/966-6157 Though we were only children living at the Tule Lake made the headman's writings ·public by publishing reproductions Fax: 213/620-1768 Concentration Camp. because ' of Executive Oider 9066, the intem- accompanied by transcriptions in modem Japanese with coromen- E-mail: [email protected] www.pacificcitizen.org ment experience remains the most fQrmati.ve event in our lives. taries. The internment had a severe impact and changed the nature ' of During the course of my stay, the innkeeper's daughter, Mayumi Executive Editor: Japanese Americans forever. It changed the way Nikkei viewed Endo, asked me if 1 knew any Endos in the U.s., for many had left Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom Assistant Editor: America; it Changed the way every N.ikkei views justice Or injustice. Milio in Meiji (Issei) time to seek their fortUnes. I later found that one Lynda Lin After Camp everyone wanted to get on with the pressing job of can pick up their story in Kazuo Ito's now out-of-print "Issei," which Office Manager: rebuilding their lives and the future. There was little time, energy, or describes many ending up in Salt Lake City. Brian Tanaka resources for recording the history of E.O. 9066 For the full text of the headman's account, along with period maps Circulation:.Eva Lau-Ting With the recent passing of Bill Hosokawa, we no longer have a of Milio and a photo of one of the Miho Endos, download the Miho Publisher: Japanese American Nisei journalist to report the actiVities of the concentration camps. chapter of 'The Orphan Tsunami of 1700" at http://pubs. Citizens League (founded 1929) 1765 Soon there will be no survivors or perpetrators left. The next genera- usgs.gov/pp/pp 1707/. Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA tion will read aboutE.O. 9066 in books, and hear distant stories. It is 94115, tel: 4151921-5225 fax: 4151931- DAVID K. YAMAGUCHI 4671, www.jacl,org essential the true story be preserved, that everyone understand the Seattle JACL PresIdent: Larry Oda Nikkei Were not simply another group who e!perienced some hard­ Nat'l Director: Floyd Mori ships in the course of a terrible war. Pacific Citizen Board of Directors: Appreciating Re.'s Coverage of Inland Northwest Gil Asakawa, chairperson; Margie The great challenge confronting our next generation of Nikkel lead­ Yamamoto, EDC; Lisa Hanasono, ers is to define a new common core of civil rights values capable of Thanks for covering the beating here in Pullman, WA, of Korean MDC; Kathy Ishimoto, CCDC; Judith embracing a diversifying array of Nikkei attitudes and conditions ere_American student Kyle Descher (Pacific Citizen, March 7 - 20). We Aono, NCWNPDC; Justine Kondo, ated by lack of infonnation about the true experiences of the Nisei ~ in the inland Northwest live 300 miles from Seattle, but we may as PNWDC; Jeff Itami, IDC; Ted Namba, generation from E.O. 9066. well be centuries behind in racial awareness. PSWDC; Naomi Oren, Youth.
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