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    The Japanese American Citizens League (日系アメリカ人市民同盟, Nikkei Amerikajin Shimin Dōmei) is an Asian American civil rights charity, headquartered in San Francisco...
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    incarceration. In the 1970s, under mounting pressure from the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and redress organizations, President Jimmy Carter appointed...
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    generation") are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America. The term is used mostly by ethnic Japanese. Issei are born in Japan; their...
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    Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities...
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  • Canada. Asian American Asian Canadian Hyphenated American Japanese American Citizens League Japanese American National Library Japanese American Internment...
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  • in Washington, DC Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California Japanese American Community and Cultural...
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    Mike Masaoka (category American military personnel of Japanese descent)
    Japanese American Citizens League for over 30 years. He was a key player in encouraging cooperation of the JACL with Japanese American internment during...
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  • Anti-Japanese sentiment against American citizens of Japanese descent in the United States would peak during World War II, when the Empire of Japan became...
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    Japanese American history is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of ethnic Japanese in the United States. People from Japan began immigrating...
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  • Organization of Chinese Americans Korean American League for Civic Action Japanese American Citizens League Japanese American National Museum Philippine...
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    nationalism and the inability to be accepted as truly American. The Japanese American Citizens League is supportive of dropping the hyphen because the non-hyphenated...
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  • In 2002, there were 6,413 people of Japanese origin, including Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans, in the Wayne-Oakland-Macomb tri-county area in...
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  • Boondocks Road (category Japanese-American culture in Texas)
    the Japanese settlers, were highly resistant to any name change. Further efforts in 1999 also met with no success. In 2004, the Japanese American Citizens...
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  • James Sakamoto (category Japanese-American internees)
    James Yoshinori Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 好徳, March 22, 1903 – December 3, 1955) was a Japanese American journalist, boxer, and community organizer. He established...
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  • The Mask of Fu Manchu (category American black-and-white films)
    reviews. On the film's theatrical re-release in 1972, the Japanese American Citizens League requested that the film be removed from circulation due to...
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    Kanagawa Cool Japan Japanese Americans Japanese American Citizens League History of Japanese Americans Internment of Japanese Americans 442nd Infantry...
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  • is a Japanese diasporic term used in countries, particularly in North America and in Latin America, to specify the great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants...
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    numerous other officials. Organizations such as ACLU of Hawaiʻi, Japanese American Citizens League, Hawai`i LGBT Legacy Foundation, Hawai'i Health & Harm Reduction...
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    by the incarceration of Japanese Americans. In addition to this mini exhibit, The Portland Japanese Citizens Americans League is known to hold Day of...
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  • The most notable collection includes the archives of the Japanese American Citizens League Legislative Education Committee (JACL-LEC), an organization...
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  • Washington, DC Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California Japanese American Community and Cultural Center...
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    requirements for Japanese citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Japan. From 2018 to 2024...
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    the Asian American Justice Center, Asian Pacific American Advocates, Japanese American Citizens League, Media Action Network for Asian Americans, National...
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    co-editor of Exiled to Motown: A History of Japanese Americans in Detroit (Detroit Japanese American Citizens League, 2015). Kurashige grew up in Los Angeles...
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    Beach, California Japanese American Citizens League Japanese American National Library Japanese American Museum of San Jose Japanese Cultural Center of...
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  • Murder of Evelyn Okubo (category American civil rights activists of Japanese descent)
    Evelyn Okubo was a Japanese-American sansei teenager killed during the 1970 convention of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) at the Palmer House...
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    The Palmer House Hilton (category Historic Hotels of America)
    murder of Evelyn Okubo, a young Japanese-American racial justice activist attending a Japanese American Citizens League convention held there. Entertainers...
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  • Ex parte Endo (category Internment of Japanese Americans)
    Japanese ancestry. Civil rights attorney and president of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Saburo Kido, working with San Francisco attorney James...
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  • The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (category 2000s American films)
    On August 17, the Japanese American Citizens League demanded an apology due to a scene depicting the mob beating of an Asian American man, as well as the...
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    Granite Falls. It closed in 2023. The Japanese American Citizens League, the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization in the United...
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