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A petition was circulated on the University of Washington camopus asking for the reinstatement of the Japanese American women officer clerks who were forced to resign their positions after protests arose from mothers of students at a West Seattle…

Seattle sportswear companies like Pacific Trail and REI are outsourcing manufacturing to Asian countries. Roffe is one of the few companies that still manufactures locally.

The national board of the Japanese American Citizens League opposed the reopening of the Japanese language schools as they could cause suspicion and misunderstanding and the pupils might be subject to violence.

Plans were being made to hold the eighth annual Ameica-Japan Student Conference at the University of Washington. Fifty or 60 students from Japan were to meet with about 100 students from American colleges and universities to discuss matters of mutual…

Redress for perople of Japanese ancestry, mostly from Peru, who were brought to the U.S. and held during World War II.

The Battle of Midway stopped the expansion to the east and an end to Japanese offensive action.

Addittional Japanese residents of Los Angeles County were being removed from their homes as federal officials met with Western governors to prepare for the movement of the evacuees into those states.

Hearings were to begin on the West Coast to determine what should be done with the Japanese on the Pacific Coast. The hearings were to begin in San Francisco, followed by Portland, then Seattle.