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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 opened...
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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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    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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  • in Washington, DC Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California Japanese American Community and Cultural...
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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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    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 country of Japan became...
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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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  • Canada. Asian American Asian Canadian Hyphenated American Japanese American Citizens League Japanese American National Library Japanese American Internment...
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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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  • Alliance Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action I Wor Kuen Japanese American Citizens League League of Revolutionary Struggle Red Guard Party United Farm Workers...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Frank S. Emi (category American people of Japanese descent)
    resisters were condemned as troublemakers by the Japanese American Citizens League and the larger Japanese American community, but his legacy has more recently...
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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 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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    The J1 League (Japanese: J1リーグ, Hepburn: Jē-wan Rīgu), a.k.a. the J.League or the Meiji Yasuda J1 League (Japanese: 明治安田J1リーグ, Hepburn: Meiji Yasuda Jē-wan...
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    Cherry Kinoshita (category American civil rights activists of Japanese descent)
    October 13, 1923 – July 29, 2008) was a Japanese American activist and leader in the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). She helped found the Seattle...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Aki Kurose (category American civil rights activists of Japanese descent)
    and a peace garden in Seattle, and the local chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League awards the Aki Kurose Memorial Scholarship each year. Born...
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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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    Beach, California Japanese American Citizens League Japanese American National Library Japanese American Museum of San Jose Japanese Cultural Center of...
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    Daniels, incoming president Mung Chiang, and Keon himself. The Japanese American Citizens League also released a statement calling for the removal of Keon...
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  • John Tateishi (category American civil rights activists of Japanese descent)
    director of the Japanese American Citizens League and was a key figure in the campaign for reparations for the Internment of Japanese Americans. Tateishi was...
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