Denny Yasuhara, Redress Champion
No one will be surprised to learn that there was an inside and an outside
battle to secure redress, one inside JACL and another outside in Washington. The indispensable leader inside was Denny Yasuhara of Spokane. Denny carried Harry Kajihara of Oxnard to a win over the tall, physically striking …
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The Almanac in the National Media
The Washington Post: Move Over Tom Clancy.
Also, Almanac publication perils in the New York Times. After redress, what? In the Los Angeles Times. The Best Guide to America in the Chicago Tribune.
The Almanac in The New York Times.
Finalist, National Book Awards
The Washington Post
Move Over, Tom Clancy
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The Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Turning Point : Now That the Redress Issue Is Settled, Japanese-Americans Are Confronting Questions on Their Culture’s Future
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Asahi Shimbun
Reagan’s Words, September 28, 2015
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The Billings Gazette
Worland native, civil liberties activist, to receive high Japanese honor • By MARTIN KIDSTON Gazette Wyoming Bureau • Jan 25, 2013
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The Casper Tribune
Wyoming native to receive one of Japanese government’s highest honor
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The Kennedy School Study of Redress
Professor Steven Kelman examines how HR 442 once given virtually no chance to become law was enacted into law. Read More
JANM Oral History
Japanese American History Museum: Redress: Oral History Project
President Reagan’s at the Japanese-American Internment Compensation Bill
A JANM Oral History
Norm Mineta and Alex Jones
Janice and Tom
Right of Passage: Got It All Wrong
Right of Passage: No 442 In HR 442
Growing up near Heart Mountain II
Chris Cilizzall: Almanacs
It doesn’t make economic sense to publish a 1,883 page book, you say. It’s still going to be available — in full — on the web, you say. What’s the big deal, you say? To which I respond with this:
That’s my desk at the Washington Post. I have every edition of the Almanac from 1972 to 2014 with the exception of 1976, my birth year and the Almanac that has become my white whale. Some people collect coins. Some people collect guns. Some people collect Christmas ornaments. Me, I collect Almanacs. Since I started covering politics way back in 1998, the Almanac has been my constant companion — helping me to tunnel deeper and deeper into the world of politics that has become my passion and my profession.
For me the Almanac was one of the seminal works of my growing up in the world. The first was “The Indian in the Cupboard”, which, as a kid, I read into the ground. In college it was “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren. Once I entered the work world, it was the Almanac and “What It Takes” by Richard Cramer. Like a song you associate with a specific person or memory, I associate the Almanac with my discovery of a never-before-known love of politics.
I’ve made my love for the publication known lots (and lots) of times over the years.