サクラ・カトウさんは、全米日系人博物館および日系弁護士協会の2014年ニッケイ・コミュニティ・インターンです。インターンとして、彼女は主に、日系アメリカ人の法律専門家の遺産を記録する活動を行っています。また、彼女は誇り高きトロージャン（南カリフォルニア大学のスポーツチームの呼称。しばしば同大学生の呼称として使われる）であり、南カリフォルニア大学で歴史を学ぶ傍ら、法科大学院進学のための準備をしています。
（2014年7月 更新）
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The Nikkei Community Internship: Strengthening the Future of the Three Remaining Japantowns
2014年8月11日 • 加藤 さくら
It is incredible to imagine that there had been a staggering 43 Japantowns throughout the nation at one point in time. However, when Pearl Harbor was bombed and Executive Order 9066 was signed, the once populous Japanese American communities began to disappear. Now, only three recognized Japantowns are left in the United States—Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, Nihonmachi in San Francisco, and Japantown in San Jose. These remaining historic relics of the Japanese American community are spaces that physically capture …
Judge A. Wallace Tashima: A Judge Who Looks Like Us
2014年8月6日 • 加藤 さくら
Living in the bleak barracks of a WWII concentration camp, the young Judge A. Wallace Tashima could sense “a dark atmosphere [in American society], that there was something sinister about being Japanese.” Because all persons of Japanese ancestry were branded as “un-American” and “subversive,” Tashima grew up during a time when Japanese Americans like himself could not be conceived as judges. Yet in becoming the first Japanese American elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Judge Tashima has successfully proven …
Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 2
2014年7月30日 • 加藤 さくら
Read Part 1 >>Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling Over the 17 years that he practiced as an attorney, both in the Public Defender’s Office and in private practice, he recalls being one of very few Japanese American criminal defense attorneys. “I did everything from drunk driving trials to death penalty trials. I wasn’t afraid. I would try anything. And so to me, to be able to be a criminal defense attorney was real important because it broke the stereotype of the …
Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 1
2014年7月29日 • 加藤 さくら
On January 7, 1951, Moto Hayami held her newborn grandson in her arms and prophetically said, “Fred is going to be the lawyer of the Fujioka family.”* Indeed, Judge Fred J. Fujioka of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County has fulfilled his grandmother’s expectations in becoming not only the “lawyer of the Fujioka family,” but also the community organizer, the political activist, and last but not least, the judge of the Fujioka family. A Long Line of Japanese American Legacies …
日本名でアメリカに育つということ
2014年7月22日 • 加藤 さくら
私の名前は、サクラ・カトウです。ただのサクラ・カトウです。ミドルネームも英語名も、日系アメリカ人としてのアイデンティティがわかるような名前は付いていません。「アシュリー」や「クリスティン」といった名前の友人たちと違い、子供の頃、名前入りマグカップやキーホルダーの中に、自分の名前を見つけられたことはありませんでした。私の名前は、「NARUTO-ナルト-」や「カードキャプターさくら」といったアニメの中にのみ存在しました。学校の出席確認の時は、いつも鼓動が早くなり、顔は真っ赤にな…
My First Court Visit: A Day in the Courtroom of Judge Holly J. Fujie
2014年7月15日 • 加藤 さくら
At 8:30 a.m. on a Monday morning, I entered the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles for my first court visit. After passing through the metal screen detectors and making my way up to Department 87, I opened the courtroom doors plated “Judge Holly J. Fujie” and nervously checked in with the bailiff and the court clerk. Unlike many others who entered her courtroom, I arrived without counsel or a stack of paperwork to plead my case. I sat …
