Prince William County [VA] has had an immigration law similar to Arizona’s S.B. 1070. Similar to the S.B. 1070, Prince William County’s ordinance required police to check the immigration status of those they had “probable cause” to suspect were undocumented immigrants.

This year’s annual JapanTown’s Cool Japan Festival will start on July 17^th, 2010 in the East Village. JapanTown will bring Japanese culture, heritage, food, festival vendors, entertainment and even robots to the streets of New York.

9066 to 9/11: America’s Concentration Camps Then ...And Now? Is a twenty minute documentary film that addresses the chilling similarities between the Japanese Internment Camps of 1942 and the current treatment of many Arab Americans due to the attacks of 9/11. My first encounter with the documentary was at the Advancing Justice Conference, where the director, Akira Boch, personally introduced the documentary to the audience himself.

The Advancing Justice Conference is a national civil rights and social justice conference that works to bring together AAPI leaders from across the country to address a broad range of issues facing the AAPI community.

Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, the first Japanese-American to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, is now in line to become the president Pro-Tempore of the Senate, a position that ranks third in line to the presidency after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.