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Park Service to hold hearings on Japanese American internment camps
The National Park Service has scheduled a series of public "listening sessions" for next week to take comments about improving its grant program for preserving historic sites where thousands of Japanese Americans were held against their will during World War II.
Film archivists save history through careful preservation
Inside the Tivoli Theatre , a couple of hundred people sat in the dark, watching an oddball smattering of movies: a tottery, fuzzed-up video of a blues singer playing guitar, footage from the 1940s of Japanese-Americans being released from an Arkansas internment camp, a home movie of a woman sweeping the front steps of her wrecked house after ...
Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts.
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Fort Hood massacre was clearly an act of terror
Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:03 a.m. "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates" - Samuel Johnson.
Col. Keegan lead Japanese-American troops in WWII
Retired Army Col. Chris Keegan, a shoe salesman for a Cincinnati department store when drafted in 1941, helped lead the most highly decorated unit for its size and length of service during combat in World War II.
Yemeni tribesmen kidnap Japanese engineer near capital Sana'a
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Japanese Attracted to Indoor Shooting Ranges in Korea
Many Korean travel agencies include visits to indoor shooting ranges on the itinerary of Japanese tourists.
10 die in fire at S. Korea shooting range
Ten people died and six were injured in a fire at an indoor shooting range in the South Korean port city of Busan on Saturday, according to local police.
Western coverage of the murder of Lindsay Hawker has peddled an ugly strand of uninformed stereotyping Tatsuya Ichihashi, the prime suspect in the murder of Lindsay Hawker, has been caught .
Montel Williams Suggests Ft. Hood Shooting Could Cause Massive Internment, Like Japanese Under FDR
The Radio Equalizer blog is hot on the trail of left-wing talk radio bringing out the weirdest scenarios to shift the blame for the Fort Hood shooting onto the Islamophobic prejudice of the American people.
Japanese women still hitting a glass and bamboo ceiling in the boardroom
Japan ranks 31st out of 35 countries in terms of the percentage of female board of directors, falling below Jordan, Oman and Kuwait, a U.S.-based nonprofit group said Tuesday.
Silence enabled Ft. Hood murders
November 09, 2009, 3:00AM To the Editor: I was not surprised when I heard about the killing of innocent people at Fort Hood, Texas, by a Muslim soldier.
Analysis: US Muslims fear reprisals in wake of Fort Hood attack
By Chris Stephen THE KILLING of the Fort Hood soldiers by Major Nidal Hasan has set people in America's six-million strong Muslim community on edge, fearing a possible backlash against them.
Son of Japanese-American WWII soldier pieces together clues to understand his fathera s life
Sgt. Gene Kumagai in the streets of Nagoya, Japan in November, 1945, several months after the city had been bombed.
Honorary degrees will be given to Japanese-American internees
It's considered a dark chapter in American history. More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II.
the Rise of Japan's 'Girlie Man' Generation
Forget the salarymen, Japan's new 'herbivore' generation of males believe that life is far more important than work Yasuo Takeuchi makes an improbable radical.
SDSU seeks ex-internee studentsMore than 120,000 Japanese-Americans...
The front page of the April 10, 1942 issue of the San Diego State College student newspaper contained a story about the school's Japanese-Americans being sent to internment camps.
Ironman to woo Japanese women to Australia
World champion ironman Shannon Eckstein is on his way to Tokyo, spearheading a promotion to entice more young Japanese women to visit Australia.
Mullen Praises World War II Japanese-American Troops
For three days in October 1944, a Japanese-American military unit fought in dense woods, heavy fog and freezing temperatures in the mountains of France, answering the prayers of an American battalion pinned down by German forces.
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