Wednesday 23rd August 2017,
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An appointee of President Trump is apologizing for a series of offensive tweets including one which supported the incarceration camps for Japanese Americans in World War II.
William Bradford leads the Energy Department’s office of Indian Energy Policy and programs.
The tweet was just one of several deleted by Bradford, but uncovered by the Washington … Read more
By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent
Racist sentiments die hard, and now a veteran award winning journalist is out of a job because of it.
Unfortunately a moment of pure joy and ecstasy has been dampened by by an unfortunate and inexcusable tweet from a journalist Terry Frei of the Denver Post.
It was … 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
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
By Dorothea Lange Credit: National Archives and Records Administration [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Asian Americans are expressing outrage at the recent publication in the LA Times newspaper of letters condoning the World War II wartime act of Japanese American incarceration, reports NextShark.
Issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt … Read more
#FilAmVets bill now goes to @POTUS for his signature. Thinking of all the vets & families I’ve met throughout this journey pic.twitter.com/YNiWr5l9Ap
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) November 30, 2016
Awesome and overdue news https://t.co/xg3VcjGjsM
— AsAmNews (@AsAmNews) November 30, 2016
By Ed Diokno
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 30, the House passed … Read more
The White Supremacists who Refused to Be Treated by An Asian American Doctor 
Chao criticized after Trump’s Charlottesville remarks 
Leader of Group Attacked as Racist and Hateful Identifies as Japanese American 
Asian American Helped Neo-Nazi Site Get Back Online, but Not for Long 
Asian Man Seen in Video with White Supremacists 
Garrett Kam said:
RE: Asian Nab Seen in Video with White Supremacists:And you are missing the main point, in that anyone of any color should no ...
The other said:
RE: Asian American Helped Neo-Nazi Site Get Back Online, but Not for Long: I'm in two minds about this. Otoh, I support free ...
Ally said:
RE: #Asian American Helped Neo-Nazi Get Back On-line, but Not for Long: What a shame! Hope he enjoyed his 50 pieces of silver ...
Ally said:
RE: Star Football Player and 4.1 GPA Student Breaks Asian Stereotypes: Awesome for him! He is such a well rounded all America ...
Audrey said:
RE:Asian man seen seen in video with White Supremacists:This article and the 2 comments are just more internet bullying. Call ...
Ally said:
RE: Discussion on Being Hslf-Hapa in Japsn: Great article. Thanks ...
jennifer said:
RE: Discussion of Being Half-Black in Japan: That's fantastic you support her BUT she a product of black man and
Japanese w ...
Romeo Valerio said:
RE: The White Supremacists who Refused to be Treated by an Asian American Doctor: if he's happens to also be in the Philippin ...