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Watanabe wins World Cup event GUJO, Gifu Pref. (Kyodo) American Graham Watanabe won the men's snowboard cross title in convincing fashion at a World Cup event on Friday. Watanabe, a third-generation Japanese American, placed first from the preliminary round through the final at Gujo Takasu Snowpark. ---------------------------- Preserving the Japanese-American Internment Camps [summary: The National Park Service will deliver a report to Congress on proposed ideas for the program to preserve the internment camps. $38 million has been authorized by President Bush in 2006, but the funds have not yet been appropriated. Only two of the camps are dedicated national historic sites, protected and administered by the National Park Service. The rest have been given only honorary designations as historical landmarks.] ---------------------------- Event will mark opening of internment camp in 1943 The Japanese Cultural Center and the Japanese American Citizens League will mark the 65th anniversary of the opening of the Honouliuli Internment Camp on Sunday. The event is also aimed at remembering the more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry interned during World War II on the Mainland and in Hawai'i. The Honouliuli Internment Camp in Waipahu was opened March 1, 1943, for the detention of approximately 300 Hawai'i residents. ---------------------------- Under The Needle: Japanese-American fishing club welcomes all It's funny now, the jokes about race. Masaro Tahara, 72, grins when he describes how anglers in the Tengu Club of Seattle give one another grief over claims of the superior skills of Japanese fishermen compared with Italians, or how both are better than the Filipinos -- an opinion not shared by the club's Filipinos, who know for a fact that anyone from a nation of 10,000 islands can, off a pier in a windstorm with a string, a bent pin and a stale Gummi bear, outfish any charter-booked, down-rigged descendant from the Land of the Rising Sun. The Tengu Derby takes place in Elliot Bay in West Seattle, WA Clique Iniciar Sessão ou Registar-se para colocar comentários
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