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DIAMOND BAR — Orange County Supervisor Lisa A. Bartlett was sworn in March 1 as the newest member of the South Coast Air Quality...

Panelists (from left): Lisa Okamoto, Amritpal Kaur, Leticia Bustamante, Reshma Shamasunder and Brian Niiya (moderator). (MARIO G....

Above and below: Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts carried banners representing the War Relocation Authority and Justice Department camps where...

A march in Jeff Adachi’s memory began at the Public Defender’s Office and ended at City Hall on Wednesday night. A memorial was planned...

President Jimmy Carter signs the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Act into law on July 31, 1980. Standing...

Friends and admirers placed flowers at a makeshift memorial for Jeff Adachi at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. (KPIX)...

Rafu Staff Report SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the city’s highest-ranking Japanese American official and...

The board of the Asian American Action Fund congratulates and celebrates the historic hiring of Roger Lau to helm Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Rep. Mark Takano WASHINGTON – In advance of this week’s Day of Remembrance recognizing the...

State Sen. Kevin de Leon in his Silver Lake office, May 2015. (MARIO G. REYES, Rafu Shimpo) Former State Sen. Kevin de Leon announced...

WASHINGTON — The Japanese American Citizens League issued the following statement on Feb. 15. =*= Following congressional passage of a...

WASHINGTON — Sens. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.), along with 23 Senate colleagues, re-introduced legislation to...

Day of Remembrance commemorates the Feb. 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066, which forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese and...

“Behind Barbed Wire: Keeping Children Safe and Families Together” is theme for the Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) 2019, a program...

Rep. Mark Takano (D-Riverside), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Takano’s State of the Union guest, Shyan Lasater-Bailey, an...

From right: Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu and founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute; Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii; and...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Jan. 17 announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to be members of the President’s...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Jan. 23 announced the appointment of Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard of Los Angeles and the...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s transgender military ban to go into effect as the appeals process...