Japan Tanabata Festival are provided courtesy of sponsor Shiramatsuga Monaka.

The Justice Department held my grandfather without due process and without medication to treat his Type 1 diabetes.and we encourage you to help us by getting involved.

that Japanese Americans boarded buses to incarceration camps in 1942.just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.CBP (Customs and Border Protection) raided Little Tokyo and invaded this immigrant community … The past came roaring back into our present.

jingoistic and chauvinistic view of American heritage.Nikkei Progressives has been working in Little Tokyo and beyond to support our immigrant brothers and sisters.

who was born at the Minidoka camp in Idaho on Aug.

but now they call them detention camps.25-year-old Kimi Look was crowned Nisei Week Queen.

Mika Fumiyo Megumi Dyo is fitted with the Miss Tomodachi tiara by Amy Kubo.By EMIKO ESSMILLERSpecial to The RafuNisei Week is something that has always meant a lot to my family.

who held the title for the past 12 months.representing the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center.