日系コミュニティー・インターンシップ・プログラムの一環として、ローレンスは今夏、全米日系人博物館（JANM）のディスカバー・ニッケイ・インターンとしてディスカバー・ニッケイ・ウェブサイトに寄稿する予定です。また、日系アメリカ人弁護士会（JABA）と協力し、コミュニティーの著名な日系人法曹の功績を保存することにも取り組みます。
2012年6月更新
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運動と記憶をつなぐ：カレン・イシズカの『Serve The People』とアジア系アメリカ人運動の形成と意味について
2016年6月17日 • ローレンス・ラン
「変化し続けなければなりません。なぜなら、過去に起こったことや自分が関わったことはもう存在しないからです。私たちが生み出したアイデアは頭の中に残ります。ですから、私たちの課題は常に過去から学び、また過去に縛られないことです。」 —グレース・リー・ボッグス1故政治思想家で活動家であったグレース・リー・ボッグスの言葉は、個人的および集団的な変革を目指す闘いにおいて、私たちは過去から学び、また私たち自身の経験における変化する物質的条件に適応しなければならないことをよく思い出させて…
Investing in the People
2012年8月8日 • ローレンス・ラン
As part of the Nikkei Community Internship (NCI) program, I have spent the past eight weeks not only working with the Japanese American Bar Association (JABA) and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) but also learning more about the non-profit community work being done throughout California’s three Japantowns—Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, San Jose’s Japantown, and San Francisco’s Nihonmachi. It’s been an eye-opening experience. I’d like to begin by thanking my supervisor from the Japanese American Bar Association, Alex Fukui, for …
Judge Jon Mayeda: The Right Place at the Right Time
2012年8月7日 • ローレンス・ラン
Judge Jon Mayeda—a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who currently works with JAMS, an Irvine-based dispute resolution and arbitration company—was always in the right places at the right times…or so he claims when he says, “It felt like the right thing to do.” But luck and serendipity can only go so far before passion and vision come into play. As a pioneering jurist in the Japanese American community, Mayeda was instrumental in the founding of several organizations, including …
Judge Vincent Okamoto: Fighting for Justice - Part 2
2012年8月4日 • ローレンス・ラン
Rear Part 1 >> Law School It was in Vietnam that Okamoto first started thinking about the rule of law, and the lack thereof around him at the time. “I really did say to myself—and it sounds kind of corny—that if I am fortunate enough to live through this experience, then when I get back to the world—to America—I’d like to go through something that has rules, where people don’t throw grenades at each other and shoot at each other,” Okamoto …
Judge Vincent Okamoto: Fighting for Justice - Part 1
2012年8月3日 • ローレンス・ラン
“I was in a position in Vietnam—to be in an arena where men with guns made the rules. And there really wasn’t anything called the rule of law. Those on the battlefield prevailed not because of better argument or because the facts were on their side. They prevailed because they had superior firepower.” So says Judge Vincent Okamoto who sits on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench as he begins to explain just how the most highly-decorated Japanese American …
Judge Ernest Hiroshige: Forging Community
2012年7月31日 • ローレンス・ラン
Anyone who has ever met Judge Ernest Hiroshige, who sits on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, knows about his signature bow tie. There’s no huge story behind it—“I just like bow ties,” he said. The influence of his bow tie reaches far beyond the walls of Department 54 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. In fact, the 32-year-old veteran of the bench tells a story about Clyde Kusatsu, a friend and actor who wore a bow tie—in honor of …
Justice Kathryn Doi Todd: Redefining Possibilities
2012年7月24日 • ローレンス・ラン
“Are you related to Mia Doi Todd?”So asks Akira Boch, one of the Japanese American National Museum’s videographers, as he and Jenni Nakamura set up the media equipment for the interview in the chambers of the Honorable Kathryn Doi Todd, Justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal. The answer is yes, and Justice Todd lets us quickly ooh and aah over the pictures of her daughter, Mia—a prominent singer-songwriter—with her newborn child. Justice Todd is certainly used to her …
Kizuna’s Youth CAN Program: Investing in the Future of Little Tokyo
2012年7月13日 • ローレンス・ラン
On a summer evening in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, the yelling and antics of 27-year-old Craig Ishii and 24-year-old Kristin Fukushima fill the courtyard of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. For what it’s worth, their silliness has a purpose. They are tasked with breaking the icy awkwardness that has settled upon nearly 70 high school students from throughout Southern California. Fortunately, though, Craig and Kristin have done this before. By the end of the half-hour-long icebreaker session, names …
“It’s not fair!”: Remembering Vincent Chin, Thirty Years Later
2012年6月28日 • ローレンス・ラン
Thirty years ago from this past Saturday, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four nights earlier, on June 19th, Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party in a Detroit, Michigan strip club when he got tangled up with two white autoworkers who mistook Chin (who was Chinese American) for Japanese and blamed him for the rise of Japanese auto industries and the loss of their own jobs. The brief fight was broken up, and Chin and his friends left …
