Effort to Resurrect Japanese America’s ‘Plymouth Rock’ Underway

(The following is a slightly modified story that originally appeared in the April 26 to May 2, 2007 edition of the Nichi Bei Times Weekly)

By KENJI G. TAGUMA
Nichi Bei Times

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — There is a relative calmness in these El Dorado Hills. It is far removed from the pandemonium of the Gold Rush that swamped the area a century and-a-half earlier, and a world away from the daily hustle and bustle of San Francisco’s Japantown.

By ALEC YOSHIO MacDONALD
Nichi Bei Times Contributor

Earlier this month, talk show host Don Imus made racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, and CBS Radio fired him eight days later.

Now the Organization for Chinese Americans (OCA) is waiting to see if CBS Radio will take equivalent measures against two more of their on-air personalities who crossed a similar line.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The John Edwards for President campaign announced on April 19 that Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) leaders from across the country have endorsed the former U.S. senator for president.

A search for former internees of the Tanforan Assembly Center is currently underway to help commemorate and dedicate the former assembly center.

Nichi Bei Times Report

Sawako Sonoyama made no secret of her penchant for Cal football. She somehow even managed to sneak in a “Go Bears!” during an onstage interview segment during the 2007 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Program.

By JEFF ASAI
Nichi Bei Times Columnist

Recently, I went to India with the volunteer organization Habitat for Humanity. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do much sightseeing since we spent a lot of time building houses, but the experience was well worth it.