Why all the fuss over language?
“At what point are we, as Americans of Japanese ancestry, going to resist having our history written for us by others?” asked Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, a Nisei survivor of the World War II incarceration....
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Dear Ms. Brown: I read with sadness and a bit of nostalgia regarding your article about the Mukai historical site in The North American Post’s July 11 edition. As a former close friend of the...
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I’ve waited a long time to see comics “Seattle Tomodachi” in the North American Post. The stories remind me of when I was a kid in Japan, from making mochi to the respect students show their teachers....
View ArticleReflections on My North American Post Days
By Travis Suzaka For the North American Post During my junior year of college at the University of Washington, I enrolled in a Japanese American History and Culture course taught by Dr. Tetsuden...
View ArticleEthnic Business Community Finally Raises Voice and Says “No” to $15 Minimum...
Although Seattle’s proposed $15/hr minimum wage increase has been publicly debated since last fall, we local ethnic and immigrant small business owners have just begun to realize the negative impact...
View ArticleFirst Meeting for Japanese Nursing Home Project to Be Held on July 19, 1972
Original Issue Date: July 7, 1972 Translated by Shota Fukuhara / The North American Post Staff A letter to the editor from Rev. Kenneth Miyake from the Brain Memorial United Methodist Church,...
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