His exploits — and the discrimination his family in California continued to face despite them — received a great deal of publicity at the time and led to his Distinguished Service Cross being personally awarded to the family by Gen.

the family operated the Mikawaya Confectionary Store.most of whom are bilingual-bicultural in Japanese.

Little Tokyo restaurants were paid $10 per meal to provide bento to Little Tokyo seniors for $3 a meal.she worked as secretary to Mountain Plains JACL Director Min Yasui.are dedicated leaders and outstanding members of the greater Los Angeles Japanese American community.

Watanabe established her law practice after seeing how the efforts of just a few students could influence the policies of a large institution.Barbara Shirota – Nominated by East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community CenterBarbara ShirotaIn 1961.

she has ensured that all stories of the Japanese American community.

She also organized and coordinated the ballroom dances held at the ESGVJCC and hosted the annual Scholarship Tea.The West Coast premiere of Nikah.

Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066.Zaynah Waseems work uplifts the diverse stories of South Asian Muslim communities through ethnographic film.

Japanese American National Museum (JANM).but is revealed as low-income housing for the Deltas poor; a Japanese American farmer talks about the pressures of the large agribusiness on small farmers.