Sakura Kato
@skatoSakura Kato es la practicante del 2014 de la Comunidad Nikkei para el Museo Nacional Americano Japonés (JANM, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Colegio de Abogados Japonés Americano (JABA, por sus siglas en inglés) que trabaja principalmente en la documentación del legado de los juristas japoneses estadounidenses. Además, es una orgullosa troyana que estudia Historia e Introducción al Derecho en la Universidad de California del Sur.
Última actualización en julio de 2014
Historias de Este Autor
The Nikkei Community Internship: Strengthening the Future of the Three Remaining Japantowns
11 de agosto de 2014 • Sakura Kato
It is incredible to imagine that there had been a staggering 43 Japantowns throughout the nation at one point in time. However, when Pearl Harbor was bombed and Executive Order 9066 was signed, the once populous Japanese American communities began to disappear. Now, only three recognized Japantowns are left in the United States—Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, Nihonmachi in San Francisco, and Japantown in San Jose. These remaining historic relics of the Japanese American community are spaces that physically capture …
Judge A. Wallace Tashima: A Judge Who Looks Like Us
6 de agosto de 2014 • Sakura Kato
Living in the bleak barracks of a WWII concentration camp, the young Judge A. Wallace Tashima could sense “a dark atmosphere [in American society], that there was something sinister about being Japanese.” Because all persons of Japanese ancestry were branded as “un-American” and “subversive,” Tashima grew up during a time when Japanese Americans like himself could not be conceived as judges. Yet in becoming the first Japanese American elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Judge Tashima has successfully proven …
Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 2
30 de julio de 2014 • Sakura Kato
Read Part 1 >>Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling Over the 17 years that he practiced as an attorney, both in the Public Defender’s Office and in private practice, he recalls being one of very few Japanese American criminal defense attorneys. “I did everything from drunk driving trials to death penalty trials. I wasn’t afraid. I would try anything. And so to me, to be able to be a criminal defense attorney was real important because it broke the stereotype of the …
Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 1
29 de julio de 2014 • Sakura Kato
On January 7, 1951, Moto Hayami held her newborn grandson in her arms and prophetically said, “Fred is going to be the lawyer of the Fujioka family.”* Indeed, Judge Fred J. Fujioka of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County has fulfilled his grandmother’s expectations in becoming not only the “lawyer of the Fujioka family,” but also the community organizer, the political activist, and last but not least, the judge of the Fujioka family. A Long Line of Japanese American Legacies …
Crecer con un nombre japonés en los Estados Unidos
22 de julio de 2014 • Sakura Kato
Mii nombre es Sakura Kato, simplemente Sakura Kato. No tengo segundo nombre ni un nombre en inglés o algo que realmente represente mi identidad como una japonesa-estadounidense. Al crecer, nunca pude encontrar mi nombre en una taza o llavero prediseñado como mis amigas que se llamaban “Ashley” o “Christine”. Las alusiones a mi nombre solo podía encontrarlas en animes como Naruto o Cardcaptor Sakura. Cuando pasaban la lista, mi corazón siempre latía rápido y mi cara se ponía roja por …
My First Court Visit: A Day in the Courtroom of Judge Holly J. Fujie
15 de julio de 2014 • Sakura Kato
At 8:30 a.m. on a Monday morning, I entered the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles for my first court visit. After passing through the metal screen detectors and making my way up to Department 87, I opened the courtroom doors plated “Judge Holly J. Fujie” and nervously checked in with the bailiff and the court clerk. Unlike many others who entered her courtroom, I arrived without counsel or a stack of paperwork to plead my case. I sat …
