The Nation13d
One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever
Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision ...
Stars and Stripes13d
Japan Supreme Court rejects appeal by family of taxi driver beaten by Marines
The family of an Okinawan taxi driver assaulted by two Marines in 2008 has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Japan ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
Even at the time, the now-notorious decision provoked strong dissent from three justices worried about sliding into the "ugly ...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to pause law threatening TikTok ban
Trump said the court should give him time after his Jan. 20 inauguration to 'seek a negotiated resolution” of the dispute ...
Japan Today13d
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok ban case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear TikTok's appeal of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the ...
Lessons from the ugly Korematsu decision
Today marks 80 years since  the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of ...
Hayao Miyazaki criticizes Japan wartime past in award speech
Acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki, who won a Ramon Magsaysay Award known as "Asia’s Nobel Prize," used his acceptance ...
Japan's "Black Widow" death row inmate, Chisako Kakehi, dies at 78
Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...