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Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe and "The Jap", was an American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant who ran Asian gambling operations for the organization.
Evelyn Okubo was 18 years old and hailed from the Japanese community of Stockton, California. [3] She and Ranko Carol Yamada had traveled to Chicago as representatives of the Japanese-American youth organization Yellow Seed to the national convention of the JACL, which was then focused on fighting for racial justice and against the Vietnam War. [3]
Some 5,500 Issei men arrested by the FBI immediately after Pearl Harbor were already in Justice Department or Army custody, [1] and 5,000 were able to "voluntarily" relocate outside the exclusion zone; [2] the remaining Japanese Americans were "evacuated" from their homes and placed in isolated concentration camps over the spring of 1942. Two ...
Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during ...
A 1993 article called "Racial Change to the Suburbs" quoted Japanese Americans as being experts on the Asian Americans moving to the suburbs. Jacalyn D. Harden, author of Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago, wrote that it was "seen by many" as "privileging" the "Japanese Americans over other Asian groups." [11]
TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo.
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Farmer who robbed and killed people who traversed his land. Beheaded. [18] Gilles Garnier: France 1572 4 Hermit known as "The Werewolf of Dole." Confessed to strangling four children and eating their flesh. [19] Garnier was caught attacking a young boy and burned at the stake in 1573. [20] Jan Philopon Dambrovský: Kingdom of Bohemia: 1572 ...