Biden Admin Blocks Japanese Company’s $15 Billion Takeover Of US Steel
The Biden administration on Friday blocked Nippon Steel’s $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. The National Security Review referred the decision to the President in December. We’re screwed To reach an agreement in which the President chooses to maintain domestic ownership of U.S. Steel, According to Go to the White House press release. “As we […]
Japanese Police Arrest American Tourist For Defacing Meiji Shrine’s Gate: REPORT
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 65-year-old American tourist on Wednesday on suspicion of desecrating the gates of the famous Meiji Shrine. Authorities named the suspect as Steve Lee Hayes and claimed he had confessed to the crime of vandalizing the gate, Japan Times. reported. “I wrote the names of my family members,” Hayes reportedly […]
Japanese Phenom Yoshinobu Yamamoto Puts Up Dominant Performance In MLB Debut
Oh my god, the Dodgers are going to be so good this year. The Los Angeles Dodgers have a deep roster, there's no doubt about that, but all egos also seem to have team chemistry, which is evident by which superstars Shohei Otani did. Although he did not play in Wednesday's game, Ohtani 30 minute […]
WHITLEY: US Should Tell Japanese Investors ‘Welcome To The Party, Pal’ — But Japanophobia Dies Hard
In the 1980s, Americans were concerned about Japan's growing economic power. The conflict in the Pacific Theater remained in the collective memory of the American people, and many feared that we were feeding our mortal enemy. This sentiment was captured in films such as Gung Ho (1986), Karate Kid II (1986), teenage mutant ninja turtles […]
‘The Wrong Message’: Zero Percent Japanese Woman Wins Miss Japan
A Ukrainian-born woman won the “Miss Japan” contest on Monday, despite having no Japanese in her genes. Carolina Shiino won the Miss Japan Grand Prix and was chosen as “Miss Japan'' as the first naturalized Japanese citizen. BBC report. Shiino moved to Japan at the age of five and was raised by foreign parents in […]
Companies Must Allow Men To Use Women’s Restrooms At Work, Japanese High Court Rules
Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it was illegal for a company to ban men from using women’s restrooms at work, according to Bloomberg. In Japan’s first ruling on LGBTQ rights in the workplace, Japan’s Supreme Court seeks to use women’s restrooms at work after use of upstairs restrooms is ‘restricted’, transgenders who are biologically […]
Imperial Valley Japanese- Americans, Our Forgotten Pioneers » Holtville Tribune
WRA evacuees Japanese Americans in camp. | Photo provided Within days of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the FBI over 100 Japanese men The Imperial Valley has undergone a series of large-scale sweeps that have separated families from health care providers. In the weeks that follow, a wave of terror […]
We must acknowledge the injustice committed upon Imperial Valley Japanese families
Within days of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the FBI would make arrests. Over 100 Japanese men A series of large-scale sweeps took place in the Imperial Valley, separating families from their donors. In the weeks that follow, a wave of terror will sweep through our country, with federal, state […]
How Eleanor Roosevelt Opposed Japanese Internment
February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack Attack on Pearl Harbor— President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing internment, or incarceration, of Japanese Americans. This is because less than two weeks after Pearl Harbor, Eleanor urged non-Japanese Americans not to turn their backs on Japanese Americans in her syndicated column “My […]
Japanese taken from San Diego to Santa Anita racetrack, then Arizona
by David Helvarg reader Donald Estes Collection Internees in San Diego, Poston, Arizona, mostly old and young. During World War II, the Japanese escaped from San Diego by rail. “There are still some. I saw people I went to school with in Coronado before the war working. They still don’t talk to me. has been […]
