Thursday 22nd June 2017,
Tule Lake
In 1943, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was sent to a Japanese incarceration camp in California at the age of 17—right before her graduation from Vashon Island High School, reports K5. On Saturday, 74 years later, the high school finally issued her a diploma.
Matsuda Gruenewald was a high achieving student and a member … Read more
File photo of Filipino American veterans
KING-TV reports Julian Nichols will be honored for his role in helping to free 500 American prisoners from the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines in 1945.
Nichols … Read more
The traumatic experience of being incarcerated behind barbed wire for simply being Japanese is still a tough subject to talk about for some who lived through it .
200 Japanese Americans held a reunion at the Santa Anita Racetrack this past weekend to renew friendships and relive memories.
They were imprisoned there before being transferred … Read more
Half-Chinese author Jamie Ford has signed on to work with film producers to turn his bestselling novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet into a movie, reports KRTV. Ford has even agreed to write the screenplay adaptation himself, something that not many authors choose to do.
The historical fiction novel is a … Read more
This picture, captured from the Japanese, shows American prisoners using improvised litters to carry those of their comrades who, from the lack of food or water on the march from Bataan, fell along the road. Philippines, May 1942
Despite rainy skies, dozens took part in a military wreath laying ceremony in San Francisco’s Presidio to … Read more
Jamie Ford
Best-selling Chinese American author Jamie Ford took to Facebook and his personal website to report how he was treated at Highland Park High School on Thursday as keynote speaker of the town’s literary festival, reports Dallas News. Ford, who debuted in 2009 with Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, … Read more
By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent
The timing couldn’t be better.
Asian American civil rights icon Fred Korematsu is being honored today with a Google Doodle.
Anyone who goes to Google.com will see a Doodle of Korematsu, on what would have been his 98th birthday.
The Oakland native refused to comply with President Roosevelt’s Executive … Read more
Katy Perry
With the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump coming this Friday, the discussion surrounding his upcoming term only intensifies, along with the fear among many minority groups.
The xenophobic nature of Trump’s campaign and public behavior in general, along with the slew of hate crimes across the country, has fueled people to speak out … Read more
The Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, seen here in the Huntington, Calif. parade, will be be part of the
Tournament of Roses Parade for the first time.
By Ed Diokno
Greg Louganis will be one of the grand marshals for the 128th Tournament of Roses Parade on Monday, Jan. 2. He is the first American of … Read more
On Feb. 18, 1946, the Rescission Act was signed taking away the rights, benefits and honors promised to 250,000 Filipino WWII veterans who fought with the American soldiers against the invading Japanese military.
By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent.
President Obama has signed a bill into law that awards the Congressional Gold Medal to … Read more
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Kim Parker said:
RE: Sports Talk Host Stunned to Learn Oriental is Offensive: Yes, I have the same experience. I did not learn that the term w ...
Joe said:
RE: Sports Talk Host Stunned to Learn Oriental is Offensive: Not saying it justifies it, just meant to say I'm not surprised. ...
Steve S said:
RE: Sports Talk host stunned to Learn Oriental is Offensive: I think they also have no idea that the vast majority, if not al ...
Steve S said:
RE: Sports talk host stunned to learn Oriental is offensive: I don't know if this is supposed to justify it, but it doesn't ...
Joe said:
RE: Sports talk host Stunned to Learn Oriental is Offensive: Every white person that I've met around his age has no idea the ...
Tom said:
RE: The Slants win huge U.S. Supreme Court First Amendment Case: Nobody really knows if this is a good or bad thing for the A ...
Joe said:
RE: Sandra Oh Snags Starring Role in New TV Series: What are the odds that all of her love interests on the show will be whit ...
Ally said:
RE: Asian Americans Push back Against Asian Privilege: Glad more young people are speaking up. ...