President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...

Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the ...

Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...

When Sonoko Sakai’s mother snuck a little miso into her lasagna, she wasn’t thinking of the kind of Japanese fusion that ...

Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day ...

When Donald Tamaki got a call from the Governor’s Office asking him to interview for a position on California’s Reparations ...

Susan Hayase and Tom Izu fell in love while fighting for Japanese American reparations. “Tom was giving a speech, and he’s clutching the lectern and talking really fast,” Hayase recalled with a laugh.

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Forty years after World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a study to examine the impact of the internment of Japanese Americans. Public hearings included ...

To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019. This community nonprofit project was originally incubated at ...

The Oshogatsu Family Festival ushered in 2025 on Sunday at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. A variety of cultural performances for the new year included a traditional ...

When Stephen Nelson joined the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast team in 2023, he became the only Japanese American (or Asian American) hired as a play-by-play announcer by an MLB club, according ...

Ichiro Suzuki is the Japanese Zen master who was so dedicated to baseball that he carried his bats in a moisture-proof case and apologised to their creator when he broke one.