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Congress Reflects on an Important History Lesson
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill today to preserve the historic Japanese Internment camps where the U.S. government wrongly held approximately 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II...

Dept. Of Archives: Photos From Japanese Internment Camps
Eric Muller points us to a small but compelling collection of high resolution photos from the camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. You can find them directly here...

Kitchens named chief of Leavenworth PD
From the City of Leavenworth: City Manager J. Scott Miller announced today that he has filled the position of Chief of Police. As of May 1, Patrick Kitchens will formally begin his duties as Chief of Police for the City...

Japan-U.S. Beef Talks Set
Japan and the United States will begin talks this week on easing Tokyo's strict import restrictions on American beef. The Japanese government announced on Monday that experts from the two countries will meet on Wednesday and Thursday in Tokyo to discuss the safety of American beef...

Godzilla v. the Japanese Monster Parent Japanese Experts Report a New Giant Mutation
Okay, there’s no Godzilla in this story. But there are Monster Japanese Parents. Japanese educators are reporting the rise of what they call “monster parents” who relentlessly demand recognitions and opportunities of their child...

What Al Qaeda Believes about American Muslims
A passage in Curtis Bradley's and Jack Goldsmith's foreign relations casebook created a concern for Stephen Griffin and Eric Muller that the book unintentionally "endorse[s] a false, revisionist, and partisan history of the Japanese American internment," by suggesting that there was a fact-based fear of Japanese-Americans' becoming fifth columnists traitors who would assist Japan's invasion of the U...

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