Japanese-American News

These men will be honored tomorrow at Memorial Day ceremonies along with nearly a million of their soldier, sailor, marine, coast guard and air force compatriots who gave their lives in military service.

Japanese Peruvians en route to U.S. Internment Camps. April 2, 1942. And then a student in a quiet voice walked by me slowly and muttered, "I think something really bad is happening to them." My students at Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon - one of the state's most racially diverse schools - studied each black and white photo posted around ... (more)

Nearly 30 Nisei veterans of World War II accepted Congressional Gold Medals today from Rep.

Senator Daniel Inouye reflected on his World War II military service with the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-volunteer unit made up entirely of second-generation Japanese Americans.

Fort Campbell's 4th Brigade Combat Team "Currahees" is the first Air Assault Unit to except Women into select Direct Combat Positions Austin Peay Governors Baseball defeats the Jacksonville State Gamecocks in 11 innings 7-6 to advance in the OVC Baseball Tournament Dallas, TX - Japanese-American men who did not eat foods rich in vitamin D had a ... (more)

Almost exactly 37 years ago, on the morning of May 16, 1975, then 35-year-old Junko Tabei and her Sherpa guide Ang Tshering reached the 8,763-meter South Summit of Mount Everest - their final halt before pushing on to the 8,848-meter peak itself.

Good morning, it's Saturday, May 26, the 147th day of 2012. There are 219 days left in the year.

That same day, Radio Tokyo boasted of recent victories in the Pacific War and declared "the Japanese people can look forward to a triumphal march into London and a victory march in New York." The Tule Lake Segregation Center, which held Japanese-American wartime internees, opened in northern California.

The Belarussian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection has addressed the Lithuanian Environment Ministry with a proposal for holding consultations on plans for building the Visaginas nuclear power plant.

This Memorial Day , as we honor the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who risk their lives in combat at this very writing, it's fitting and proper to remember the many Hispanics among them.

Monday marks Memorial Day here in the United States. Cities and towns across the country will hold parades and ceremonies to honor the men and women who served and died in the U.S. armed forces.

The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in Park County - the site of a World War II Japanese American internment camp - has been recognized with an "Eloquent Presentation of Topic" award from the American Association of Museums.

The fourth Friday of every month admission to the Pacific Asia Museum is free . Take advantage of this freebie and explore the current exhibitions: A A A A A A Masterpieces of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi , perhaps the most important Japanese print artist of the late 19th century.

Two Japanese Wrestlers Arrested For Marijuana Possession Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 05.24.2012 They were picked up at the airport... - Kazushige Nosawa and his girlfriend Masami Odate have been arrested for marijuana possession.

TOKYO: Japan is facing a queer problem - men are getting fatter by the year while women are getting thinner.

Japanese-American men who did not eat foods rich in vitamin D had a higher risk of stroke later in life, according to results of a 34-year study reported in Stroke , an American Heart Association journal.

Carolyn Sugiyama Classen was a 2008 Tucson Citizen My Tucson columnist. She was born and raised in a sugar plantation community on Hawai'i Island, then belonged to a Jesuit "koinonia" at the Paulist Center in Boston.

IT IS easy for outsiders to admire those in Japan who sport tattoos. First, think of the pain.

Nikkei refers to someone of Japanese descent and the foundation works to preserve the history, culture and traditions of Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest.

Parents of children born from donated ova are worried about telling their children the circumstances of their birth, while an increasing number of Japanese women are receiving ova donations overseas.