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Let’s not whitewash the racism from American history | Opinion Original
by Capital-Star Guest Contributor, Pennsylvania Capital-Star December 11, 2022 By Shirley Ann Higuchi My father grew up on a farm in San Jose that my grandfather had to put in the names of his two oldest sons, because California banned migrants from owning land. The reason behind the state’s Alien Land Law was racism.
Let’s not whitewash the racism from American history
by Guest Column, Virginia Mercury December 6, 2022 By Shirley Ann Higuchi My father grew up on a farm in San Jose that my grandfather had to put in the names of his two oldest sons, because California banned migrants from owning land. The reason behind the state’s Alien Land Law was racism.
Lummis helps recover Heart Mountain donation from potential mail theft
Submitted by Shirley Ann Higuchi and Aura Sunada Newlin Posted 11/17/22 Dear Editor: The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation depends on the support of our members, generous private donors and the government to tell the history of the Japanese American incarceration … This item is available in full to subscribers. Attention readers The Powell Tribune has expanded its online content. To continue reading, you will need to either log in to your subscriber account, or purchase a subscription.
Norman Mineta inspired a community and a nation
In 1986, as I investigated the mysterious death of my brother who worked for a federal contractor, I reached out to then-Rep. Norman Mineta of California for help. At the time, I didn't know that Norm, as I came to realize everyone called him, had been incarcerated with my parents as children in the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, prison camp for Japanese Americans forced from their homes after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Books Bans and Censored Curricula Won't Change History – or the Racism We Still Live With
Editors’ note: This is part of our series on the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, signed on Feb. 19, 1942. Within hours of the Japanese empire’s attack on Pearl Harbor, my grandmother Chiye Higuchi scoured her family’s farmhouse in San Jose searching for anything that smacked of her native Japan. Pictures of Emperor Hirohito, old newspapers with Japanese writing, and knick-knacks were cast into the fireplace to avoid creating suspicion. It wasn’t enough.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Stopping the cruel practice of profiting from human suffering
Art created by Japanese Americans while they were unjustly imprisoned should not be up for sale. (Brian Melley | AP file photo) This Oct. 22, 2019, photo photo shows a gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, Calif., that commemorates the death of Giichi Matsumura, who died in the Sierra Nevada while he was at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar. A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California's second-highest peak was identified Friday, Jan.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Bring the power of apology to help African Americans
The experience of Japanese Americans can help resolve question of reparations. (AP Photo/File) This March 23, 1942, photo shows the first arrivals at the Japanese evacuee community established in Owens Valley in Manzanar, Calif.
Setsuko's Secret
Setsuko's Secret Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration Shirley Ann Higuchi Foreword by Tom Brokaw Afterword by Irene Hirano Inouye “A rich and original story. Shirley Higuchi captures the sweeping narrative of incarceration through the lens of a single camp and ties it to our present reality.
Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
Main navigation Setsuko's Secret (Hardcover) Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration By Shirley Ann Higuchi University of Wisconsin Press, 9780299327804, 336pp. Publication Date: September 15, 2020 List Price: 29.95* * Individual store prices may vary. Description As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming.
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Shirley Ann Higuchi: Black Americans helped Asian Americans find their voice
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Black Lives Matter protesters march down Center Street, to the City and County Building in Provo, Wednesday July 1, 2020. In the summer of 1942, as he rode in a darkened train with his family from California to a remote corner of Wyoming, 16-year-old Takashi Hoshizaki felt sympathy from one group that was traveling with them — the African American Pullman porters who worked on the U.S. railroads.
Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration|Hardcover
English 0299327809 Overview As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Fight back in the war against expertise
Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Topaz Museum Board Member Rick Okabe speaks about the history of Japanese internment and how it began in 1942 with Executive Order 9066, during the Topaz Museum Dinner and Reception at the Sheraton Hotel in Salt Lake City, Friday, July 7, 2017.
COVID-19: When is it OK to provide more in-person services?
Millions of providers and their patients have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Here are some factors to consider before cutting back on telehealth and offering more in-person services. By Connie Galietti, JD, C.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Racist claims about Asians and virus perpetuate false and dangerous stereotypes
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Museum of Fine Art hosts "Chiura Obata: An American Modern," major touring retrospective of Japanese-American artist (1885-1975), whose work captured Western landscapes and his time at the Topaz War Relocation Center (internment camp) during World War II. Exhibit opens Friday, May 25. Pictured is Arrivals Welcomed to Topaz, October 1, 10:10 a.m, 1942, Ink on paper.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Treatment of Iranians at U.S. border shows we have not learned our lesson
(Elaine Thompson | AP file photo) In this Oct. 9, 2019 photo, traffic enters Canada from the United States at the Peace Arch Border Crossing, in Blaine, Wash. The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says more than 60 Iranians and Iranian-Americans were detained and questioned at the border crossing over the weekend. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman, however, said no Iranian-Americans were detained or refused entry because of their country of origin.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Japanese American Citizens League is launching a new activism
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Raymond Sonji Uno, who spent his young life in a Japanese internment camp and went on to earn a law degree and become a judge in the Salt Lake City court, is given an honorary degree during University of Utah's commencement ceremonies on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
A travesty then and now: Don’t reopen Japanese American internment camps to hold Central American refugees
In the hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the FBI swooped down on Japanese Americans on the West Coast and whisked more than 5,000 of them into a series of camps around the country. Without trial, they remained imprisoned for the duration of World War II, often because of unfounded claims of national security. About 700 of these individuals of Japanese descent were sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, an Army base and artillery training center.
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Administration’s census case is built on a foundation of lies
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Museum of Fine Art hosts "Chiura Obata: An American Modern," major touring retrospective of Japanese-American artist (1885-1975), whose work captured Western landscapes and his time at the Topaz War Relocation Center (internment camp) during World War II. Exhibit opens Friday, May 25. Pictured is Arrivals Welcomed to Topaz, October 1, 10:10 a.m, 1942, Ink on paper. After President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb.
Commentary: Japanese American wartime incarceration sites faced with potential budget cuts
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Museum of Fine Art hosts "Chiura Obata: An American Modern," major touring retrospective of Japanese-American artist (1885-1975), whose work captured Western landscapes and his time at the Topaz War Relocation Center (internment camp) during World War II. Exhibit opens Friday, May 25. Pictured is Untitled (UC Berkeley students), ca 1930s, Ink on paper.
Guest opinion: Border separation policy risks causing long-term mental health problems
Each day a child is removed from his or her family at the southern border with Mexico, the U.S. government risks contributing to a growing mental health crisis that will last for generations. Child-parent bonding is critical at young ages. The younger the child, the greater the risk posed by separation. Yet the Trump administration continues to separate families seeking asylum at the border, often dispatching the children to for-profit detention centers rife with the threat of sexual abuse.
Commentary: Immigrants have long fought bravely for the United States
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Museum of Fine Art hosts "Chiura Obata: An American Modern," major touring retrospective of Japanese-American artist (1885-1975), whose work captured Western landscapes and his time at the Topaz War Relocation Center (internment camp) during World War II. Pictured is "Arrivals Welcomed to Topaz, October 1, 10:10 a.m.," 1942, Ink on paper. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Capt.
Guest opinion: Bush helped right wrongs of Heart Mountain camp
For the former prisoners at the War Relocation Authority camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, former Sen. Simpson’s moving eulogy for the late President George H.W. Bush represented a happy convergence of two men who helped shape the redress for the Japanese-American incarceration during World War II.
Guest opinion: Bush helped right wrongs of Heart Mountain camp
For the former prisoners at the War Relocation Authority camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, former Sen. Simpson’s moving eulogy for the late President George H.W. Bush represented a happy convergence of two men who helped shape the redress for the Japanese-American incarceration during World War II.
Japanese Americans know well the dangers of misused census data
If the question of national origin is reinstated on the 2020 Census, immigrants could be targeted and many could be deprived of the government services they need. My grandparents dutifully filled out their census forms in 1940, recording their residences, number of children and countries of origin and sending them back to the government.
Commentary: There is no test to becoming American
Once again, with his mistaken claim about his ability to end birthright citizenship with an executive order, President Donald Trump has waded into the miasma of xenophobia and racism aimed at excluding immigrants from the rights enjoyed by all Americans. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution has been interpreted since its inception to allow the right of citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil.
Commentary: For-profit immigrant detention centers are an echo of a sad past
Then, as now, overly hyped claims of national security gave rise to our baser communal emotions. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r Japanese-Americans retired Judge Ray Uno, Jeanette Misaka and Jeff E. Itami lived at interment camps. Uno and Misaka lived at Heart Mountain, WY and Itami lived at the Minidoka, ID interment camp.
Parenting Coordination in Postseparation Disputes:
Shirley Ann Higuchi, Esq., is the associate executive director of legal and regulatory affairs for APA. In this role, Ms. Higuchi manages all aspects of a complex agenda focused on developing and implementing legal and regulatory strategies to achieve optimal psychologist participation in the health care field.
Japanese American internment scar still pains families and descendants
The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center looks like any large hospital complex, but because my family’s farm once thrived on that land, it holds special significance for me. Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. Three months later my uncles James Higuchi, a U.S. Army medical doctor, and Kiyoshi Higuchi, a San Jose State College student, sold the 14.25-acre farm for pennies on the dollar to their neighbors, Joe and Millie Curci.
What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Newly Relevant
We can’t rely on ethnic or religious tests for citizenship or admission to our country. It’s the kind of racism that ripped families apart during World War II. This post first appeared at History News Network. In May 1942, just six months into World War II, a medical doctor in the US Army went to a notary in Fort Smith, Arkansas and signed over the sale of his family farm in San Jose, California.
Opinion: Japanese American internment scar still pains families and descendants
The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center looks like any large hospital complex, but because my family’s farm once thrived on that land, it holds special significance for me. Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. Three months later my uncles James Higuchi, a U.S. Army medical doctor, and Kiyoshi Higuchi, a San Jose State College student, sold the 14.25-acre farm for pennies on the dollar to their neighbors, Joe and Millie Curci.
Suddenly What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Newly Relevant
Shirley Ann Higuchi is a Washington attorney and past president of the District of Columbia. Bar. She chairs the board of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, which runs an interpretive center at the site of the camp where her parents were imprisoned. Follow Shirley on Twitter at @HiguchiJD. In May 1942, just six months into World War II, a medical doctor in the U.S. Army went to a notary in Fort Smith, Arkansas and signed over the sale of his family farm in San Jose, California.
Trump needs to visit internment camp
Visalia Published 12:03 a.m. PT Nov. 21, 2016 My parents, Dr. William Higuchi and Setsuko Saito, first met in sixth grade at school. It wasn’t as normal as it sounds. The school was at Heart Mountain, Wyo., one of the Japanese American internment camps created by Executive Order 9066 signed in 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt. For almost 75 years, Japanese Americans have struggled with this legacy. Families lost livelihoods to a wartime hysteria.
OPINION: Trump should visit Japanese internment camp
My parents, Dr. William Higuchi and Setsuko Saito, first met in sixth grade at school. It wasn't as normal as it sounds. The school was at Heart Mountain, Wyo., one of the Japanese American internment camps created by Executive Order 9066 signed in 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt. For almost 75 years, Japanese Americans have struggled with this legacy. Families lost livelihoods to a wartime hysteria.
OPINION: Trump should visit Japanese internment camp
My parents, Dr. William Higuchi and Setsuko Saito, first met in sixth grade at school. It wasn't as normal as it sounds. The school was at Heart Mountain, Wyo., one of the Japanese American internment camps created by Executive Order 9066 signed in 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt. For almost 75 years, Japanese Americans have struggled with this legacy. Families lost livelihoods to a wartime hysteria.
Trump needs to visit a Japanese American internment camp: Column
There is no racial or religious test for being an American. We should not start one now. My parents, Dr. William Higuchi and Setsuko Saito, first met in sixth grade at school. It wasn't as normal as it sounds. The school was at Heart Mountain, Wyo., one of the Japanese American internment camps created by Executive Order 9066 signed in 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt. For almost 75 years, Japanese Americans have struggled with this legacy. Families lost livelihoods to a wartime hysteria.
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