involves writing wishes and messages of thanks on thin strips of paper and hanging them on bamboo

symbols and caricatures as well as the unpaid labor force many Nisei women played in prior times.Sansei women can be anything they want to be.

But the Nisei woman is disappearing and the JA community is diminished.being polite and self-controlled were not why she was a good daughter.published in the May 4 edition of The Rafu Shimpo.

My Nisei mother grew up in a very paternalistic culture and generation and had to overcome significant hardships as a result.a good wife and a good mother when incarcerated in 1942.

a good wife and a good mother.

Matsunagas column does not honor my Nisei mother or the hardships she overcame in her paternalistic generation.As Slocum was among one of the founding members of the American Legion.

remarked positively about Sugis trip: There is no denying the fact that a representative of JACL had gone to Washington and pleaded successfully for a bill of special interests to the organization.letting the merits of her cause do the talking.

They were plain citizens who had a message to present to Congress.Suma Yokotake penned an article decrying the inability of several qualified Nisei women to find jobs as teachers in the Los Angeles school system.