Issei

The earliest wave of Japanese immigrants, the Issei (first generation), had a strong sense of their ethnic identity and retained the values and traditions of their country of birth. Most came to the United States as sojourners and planned to return to Japan after earning their fortunes. In addition, discriminatory laws forbade them from becoming American citizens and from exercising other basic rights, such as owning or leasing land. Since they were thus prevented from fully taking part in American life, it is not surprising that many still identified strongly with the culture of their homeland.

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 18, (May 11, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-18)

Select article titles: "New York to Host Next EDC Session May 19 with Inaugural" (p.1); "United Methodist Agency Steps Up Aid for Ethnic Projects, 2 in L.A. Cited" (p.1); "Manzanar Dust Swirling" (p.2); "Self Help Housing for Farm Workers Explained by Sac'to Nisei Recruiter" (p.5); "JARP Plans Issei Pictorial" (p.5); "Housing Needs of New York's Aged …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 08, (August 24, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-33)

Select article titles: "Inouye Copy in Nation's Press Continues to Score" (p.1); "Bob Hope Slips in 'Jap' Joke at Jamboree: Scout Chief Apologizes to Sansei" (p.1); "All WRA Camps Sites Should Be Posted as 'Historic Landmarks'" (p.3); "U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Chinese Student Case against School" (p.3); "Urban Redevelopment May Squeeze Life Out of …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol.76, No. 04, (February 2, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-4)

Select article titles: "JACL Law Unit Seeks Outside Funding" (p.1); "Mitchell and Chuman Make Up in Public" (p.1); "Nixon 'Freeze' on Low-Rent, Federally Subsidized Housing Affects Little Tokyo" (p.1); "Hot-Meal Kitchen Serves 100 Issei" (p.4); "Sac'to Official Fears Return of Gov't Camps" (p.4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol.76, No. 02, (January 19, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-2)

Select article titles: "Minority Task Force Accuses County Personnel Tests Replete with Bias" (p.1); "Sen. Inouye Calls Massive Raids on Vietnam Radically Oriented" (p.1); "Nisei Evacuee Recalls Life in 'Concentration Camp'" (p.1); "Japan Student Slain in N.Y." (p.1).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 22, (June 8, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-22)

Select article titles: "San Mateo City Council Anti-Nikkei Bias Festering" (p.1); "Aged Issei Seen as Target of Pressure from Nikkei Groups, Says Utah Savant" (p.1); "Bannai Looms as First Nisei to Sit in Assembly" (p.1); "Jobless Sac'to Asian Teachers Protest Hawaii Recruitment"(p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 02, (July 13, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-27)

Select article titles: "Watergate Hearing: Inouye's Hopes Revealed" (p.1); "JACL Mail Poll Underway for $250,000 Bldg." (p.1); "Straightening out Japanese on Nikkei in U.S." (p.3); "Eight New Records Set in 21st S.F. JACL Olympics" (p.4); "WW2 Drawings of Life for Teenager in Poston Camp Basis of New Book" (p.5).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 20 (May 24, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-20)

Selected article titles: "Priorities: Issei History" (p. 1), "Public Protest Made in Sentencing of Asian Youth, 16, to State Prison" (p. 1), and "Washington Newsletter: Mineta's Bid for Congress" (pp. 2-3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Supplement to 1974 Holiday Issue (December 20-27, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-51)

Supplement to 1974 holiday issue. Selected article titles: "Issei as Technical Advisers to Japan" (pp. 1, 10), "'42 Hysteria Led to Concentration Camps" (pp. 1, 3), "U.S.-Canada Nikkei Alliance Urged" (pp. 1, 11), and "National Constitution Japanese American Citizens League" (pp. 8-9).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 89, No. 2072 (December 7, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-48)

Selected article titles: "Commission-Approach Ideally Suited for Internment Experience" (pp. 1, 3), "Federal Ombudsman Proposed for All Iranians" (p. 1), "Useful Function of S 1649/HR 5499" (p. 4), and "West Wind: 'Hito Hata: Raise the Banner' a Surprise Hit" (pp. 5, 7).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2031 (February 23, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-7)

Selected article titles: "S.I. Would Back Efforts to Undo Curfew Rulings" (p. 1), "'College Nisei' Update Calling on Evacuees Not Questioned Before" (p. 2), "Calif. Legislature Condemns EO 9066" (p. 3), and "From the Frying Pan: Florida's Issei Colony" (p. 5).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 89, No. 2056 (August 17, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-32)

Selected article titles: "Issei Naturalization Class Reactivating" (p. 1), "Job Bias Cases by Japanese Firms in U.S. Viewed" (p. 1), "Assemblyman Mori's Day of Remembrance Bill Signed" (p. 1), and "Question and Answer Fact Sheet: Didn't Pearl Harbor Justify Your Detention?" (pp. 5, 7).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 89, No. 2066 (October 26, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-42)

Selected article titles: "Seattle Calls Off Pilgrimage to Minidoka Campsite" (p. 1), "Issei Had Ventured into Yukon Before '98 Klondike Gold Rush" (p. 1), "Peppermint Whirl: Factors in Aging" (pp. 4, 7), and "PNWDC Urges Japanese Americans Be Named to Redress Commission" (p. 6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No.2036 (March 30, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-12)

Selected article titles: "Mineta at Univ. of Michigan: New Generation of Americans Need to Be Told" (p. 1), "Dr. Makio Murayama: Study on Oral Intake of Urea Urged for Sickle Cell Treatment" (p. 3), "East Wind: Divorce: Issei Style (None)" (pp. 5, 8), and "Judge Acquits Suspect in Nishizaki Murder" (p. 8).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2028 (February 2, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-4)

Selected article titles: "Tight-Spending Pressure Still Straps JACL Programming" (pp. 1-2 ), "First Friday Feature: Moving Day, 1918" (pp. 3, 10), "Chiaroscuro: Politics: A Matter of Heritage" (p. 6), and "Japan Decorates Issei Master Teaching Ikebana for 57 Years" (p. 8).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 88, No. 2042 (May 11, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-18)

Selected article titles: "JACL Hosts Congressional Reception on Heritage Week" (pp. 1, 11), "$9,000 Raised for Washington Post Ad Addressed to Sen. Hayakawa" (pp. 1, 11), "Hiroshima Medical Team Back in U.S. to Check on Hibakusha" (p. 3), and "Substance Determining Sex in Embryo Discovered by Ohno" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 89, No. 2069 (November 16, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-45)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Know 'First Hand' Agonies of Hostages in Iran" (p. 1), "NHK 'Story of America' Tells Drama of Issei-Nisei-Sansei" (p. 1), "A Background Report: Japan-U.S. Friendship Act: Continued from Last Week" (p. 4), and "YE Editor's Desk: Mexican Nikkei" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 94, No. 8 (February 26, 1982) (ddr-pc-54-8)

Selected article titles: "'Reagan's Raids': People or Numbers" (pp. 1, 8), "JACL Now Preparing for 3-Year Redress Campaign" (pp. 1, 10), "East Wind: Issei Principles" (p. 5), and "Moshi-Moshi: Samrai Without Mystique--Kabu" (p. 12).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 95, No. 10 (September 3, 1982) (ddr-pc-54-35)

Selected article titles: "Revised WW2 History Becomes Japanese Foreign Policy Issue" (pp. 1, 8), "Lobbying Effort Sought to Keep 5th Preference in Immigrant Law" (pp. 1, 8), "After 40 Yrs., Fresno Bee Takes New Stand on WW2 Evacuation" (p. 2), and "From Happy Valley: In Praise of Issei Women" (p. 4).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 95, No. 16 (October 15, 1982) (ddr-pc-54-41)

Selected article titles: "Honda Plant in Ohio Town Getting Unfriendly Welcome" (pp. 1, 6-7), "JA Population Had Low Growth in California During 1970-1980" (p. 1), "'Survivors' Film Gets High PBS Ratings, Good Reviews" (p. 5), and "East Wind: The Ethic of 'More for Less'" (p. 7).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 4 (February 2, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-4)

Select article titles: "Chinese Immigration Relief Act Veto Sustained; Bush's Executive Order Rules"(p.1); "Study of JACL's Actions During WWII Due for April Presentation"(p.1); "Sen Nishiyama Compares Heritage and Human Rights in U.S.-Japan Relations at Selanoco Fete"(p.3); "Issei History of U.S. in Agriculture"(p.6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 7 (February 23, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-7)

Select article titles: "Mineta Keynotes Chicago's Lunar New Year Banquet"(p.1); "Gubernatorial Candidate Asked to Apologize"(p.1); "Carlos Kasuga Urges PANA-USA Nikkei to Keep Faith with Issei Spirit and Values"(p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 13 (April 6, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-13)

Select article titles: "U.S. Census Hears Asian Concerns"(p.1);"JACL Calls for Repeal of Discriminatory Employer Sanctions in Immigration Law"(p.1); "San Jose Japantown Seizes Unique Opportunity for Revitalization of Businesses & Community Life"(p.2); "Common Memorial to Restore Pioneer Issei History on Vancouver Island Planned for 1991"(p.3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 6 (February 16, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-6)

Select article titles: "NBC Sportscaster Apologizes for Racial Slurs in S.F. Talk Show"(p.1);"Spokane Spokesman Review, Nikkei Elders to Be Honored; Nakagawa, Ujifusa to Speak"(p.1);"Hate Crimes Stats Bill Passes Senate"(p.3); "Texas Issei Farms in Rio Grande Valley Succeed Except the 'Yamato Colony'"(p.5).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 122, No. 11 (June 7-20, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-11)

Selected article titles: "Board-Approved Budget Places Priority on District Allocations" (p. 1), "From JACL: PSW Condemns California Civil Rights Initiative as 'Deceptive'" (p. 3), "ORA Reports on Redress Payments, Eligibility Requirements" (p. 4), and "East Wind: Nisei Military Service: WWII" (pp. 8, 11).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 123, No. 11 (December, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-23)

Holiday issue organized into sections A 1-18, B 1-80, and A 19-40. Selected article titles: "Comfort in the Changing Face of Asian America" (pp. A8, A15), "Bleaching the Issei and Nisei: Threats to Identity and Memory in the Third Millennium" (pp. A12, A15), "Towards a New Millennium Without Colonies" (B2-B3, B6), and "The Millennium: A History …

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