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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga: The Godmother of the Redress Movement

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was the scholar-activist who dedicated herself to researching the wartime r…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 27, 2018

activism Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Asian Americans for Action (organization) Redress movement research scholars social action World War II camps

Interview with Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga is still a ball of fire at 89 years old. She was born in Sacramento, Californ…

June Yoshiko Kaililani Ryushin Tanoue • Oct. 1, 2014

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Arkansas California concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Jack Herzig Manzanar concentration camp racism Redress movement research Rohwer concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps

Koji's Column

Top Five Japanese American Women Civil Rights Pioneers You Should Know

In California, January 30 was officially Fred Korematsu Day. It is important to honor and remember …

Koji Steven Sakai • March 1, 2012

activism Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga civil rights Fred Korematsu Mitsuye Endo social action women Yuri Kochiyama

Yosh Kuromiya: Random Thoughts On Being Nisei During World War II

Note: Born in Sierra Madre, California in April 1923, Yosh Kuromiya and his family moved to Monrovi…

Yosh Kuromiya • June 28, 2011

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga civil rights concentration camps discrimination draft resisters generations Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee interpersonal relations Japanese American Citizens League Nisei resisters United States World War II World War II camps Wyoming

42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/Manzanar At Dusk 2011 – A Personal Reflection: Part 1

After a long, exhausting day at the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30, and the Manzanar A…

Gann Matsuda • June 14, 2011

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga California communities concentration camps dance drum Frank Emi Kyodo Taiko Lone Pine Manzanar at Dusk (program) Manzanar Committee (organization) Manzanar concentration camp Nikkei ondo dancing pilgrimages taiko United States World War II camps

American war reparations (redress)

On August 10, 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. It officially apologiz…

Yoko Murakawa • Sept. 17, 2010

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Daniel K. Inouye Redress movement United States U.S. Senate war World War II

WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Influenced and inspired by others A powerful statement was submitted to the CWRIC…

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga • Feb. 16, 2010

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga concentration camps euphemisms languages terminology World War II World War II camps

WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Naive housewife evolves as concerned citizen and political activist It was when …

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga • Feb. 9, 2010

activism Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga civil rights concentration camps Jack Herzig social action terminology William Hohri World War II World War II camps writ of coram nobis

WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 1

On July 9, 1981, I submitted a memorandum on the subject “Use of term ‘concentration camps’” to the…

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga • Feb. 2, 2010

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga concentration camps euphemisms terminology World War II World War II camps

Japanese American Women and Activism within the JA Community: Redress, Reparations, and Gender

When the Issei arrived in the United States, they knew there was a good chance they would not be re…

Candice Shikai • March 7, 2008

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Cherry Kinoshita Lorraine K. Bannai Redress movement Tsuyako Kitashima women World War II

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