The JACL is a national organization whose
ongoing mission is to secure and maintain the civil rights of
Japanese Americans and all others who are victimized by injustice
and bigotry.
Project: Community! Completes its Pilot Year
The JACL has successfully completed the first year of Project: Community! in Chicago. Started in Los Angeles in 2008, Project: Community! is a national JACL youth development program aimed at empowering the future leaders of the Japanese American community. In Chicago, the program had two components: a 3-month program for high school students, and a two-week day camp program for 7 to 9 year olds.
Congratulations to this year's Scholarship Winners!
Dara Oda, Michael Nitahara, Anna Takada, Remy Hidaka, Alexander Ozawa (Not pictured: Jacqueline Mac and Kenji Morimoto)
For full profiles on each of our scholarship recipients, please visit our scholarship page.
Congratulations to the Chicago Chapter on a Successful Convention!
Pictures from the convention are available online! (Photos are courtesy of Floyd Mori.) Gallery 1 Gallery 2
Northwestern Professor Richard Morimoto Honored with JA of the Biennium Award
July 2010 - Dr. Richard Morimoto, a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , was honored at the JACL National Convention with the Japanese American of the Biennium Award. The JA of the Biennium Award is the highest public award of the National JACL. The National JACL has presented this recognition to an American of Japanese ancestry at each biennial convention since 1950. This honor is presented to individuals whose outstanding achievements in different fields of endeavor have received regional and national recognition and whose contributions have added to the sum of human knowledge and/or enhanced the quality of life in our society.
(Video provided by Dan Izui.)
For more information on Dr. Morimoto, please click here.
Dara Oda, Michael Nitahara, Anna Takada, Remy Hidaka, Alexander Ozawa (Not pictured: Jacqueline Mac and Kenji Morimoto)
