Sakura Kato

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Sakura Kato é a Estagiária da Comunidade Nikkei de 2014 no Museu Nacional Japonês Americano (JANM) e na Associação de Advogados Nipo-Americanos (JABA), trabalhando principalmente na documentação do legado dos juristas nipo-americanos. Ela também é uma orgulhosa Trojan [estudante da USC], estudando História e o curso preparatório de Direito na University of Southern California.

Atualizado em julho de 2014

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The Nikkei Community Internship: Strengthening the Future of the Three Remaining Japantowns

Por Sakura Kato
11 Ago 2014

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 the hopes of the immigrant generation, the injustices of the war period, a…

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The JABA Legacy Project: Two Generations of Pioneering Judges in the Nikkei Community

Judge A. Wallace Tashima: A Judge Who Looks Like Us

Por Sakura Kato
6 Ago 2014

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 otherwise and now upholds the promises of t…

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The JABA Legacy Project: Two Generations of Pioneering Judges in the Nikkei Community

Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 2

Por Sakura Kato
30 Jul 2014

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 quiet Asian,” Fujioka said. Yet in being one of the few Japanese American criminal defense attorneys …

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The JABA Legacy Project: Two Generations of Pioneering Judges in the Nikkei Community

Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 1

Por Sakura Kato
29 Jul 2014

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 Judge Fujioka hails from a long line of Japanese American legacies that he p…

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Crônicas Nikkeis #3—Nomes Nikkeis: Taro, John, Juan, João?

Crescendo com um nome japonês nos Estados Unidos

Por Sakura Kato
22 Jul 2014

O meu nome é Sakura Kato, e apenas Sakura Kato. Eu não tenho nenhum nome do meio ou nome inglês ou qualquer outra coisa indicando a minha identidade como nipo-americana. Na minha infância, eu nunca me deparei com o meu nome numa caneca ou chaveiro pré-fabricado – ao contrário das minhas amigas que se chamavam “Ashley” ou “Christine” – e referências ao meu nome só podiam ser encontradas em animes como Naruto ou CardCaptor Sakura. Na hora da chamada, o meu coração sempre batia rápido e …