一日の画像 - Picture of the Day

おめでとうございます! US Ambassador to Japan John Roo's seen here with happy Tokyo High School Students celebrating the US Election results re-electing incumbent President Barrack Obama. すごいねReposted from Japan Today.

First Isei Elected to US Senate!

Oh what a night! President Obama won re-election and then in his home state of Hawaii the people have elected their first woman senator to represent the Aloha State. はい そ です! Sure, other people of Japanese descent such as Senior Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye (Seen pictured with Hirono) have been elected to office before but Mazie Hirono will be the first foreign born and Asian-American elected to the Senate. Originally from Fukushima Japan, the 65 year old naturalized citizen Congresswoman Mazie Hirono becomes the first Isei to be elected to the US Senate representing Hawaii. It should be further noted that she is also the first Buddhist to be elected to the Senate. With all the evangelical insanity we've seen, it's good to know we have a sane Buddhist on board.  So to Senator Hirono, we at American Mishima would like to congratulate you by saying おめでとうございます + がんばってください!

アメリカの政治 - George Takei's Emotional Appeal to Asian-Americans

We've always been a fan of George Takei and have appreciated his continued activism. In case you do not know, Star Trek Alumni George Takei is a well known for being a public advocate for Gay Rights. What surprisingly many people living in the United States and elsewhere still do not know is that as an American Born Nisei (1st generation person born in America of Japanese decent), he has provided countless accounts of his childhood experience of having soldiers arrive at his family's home to force his parents to surrender their home. business, and all their worldly possessions that could not fit into a single suitcase that they would be allowed to carry aboard trains at the point of a gun to some unknown concentration camp where they would be forced to live behind barbed wire and machine guns manned by soldiers pointed at them. Sounds like a WWII movie? Sadly this really happened.

The problem with this story is that it did not happen in Nazi-Occupied Europe at the hands of the Hitler's SS. Instead, it happened here in the City of Los Angeles by our own American Soldiers wearing the patch bearing our beloved stars and stripes right here in the good ole' US of A in what could be best described as one of the darkest and shameful chapters of American History since the Trail of Tears that is rarely discussed or even mentioned in most American textbooks. For this reason Takei-sama he speaks directly to Asian-Americans urging them with his reasons why not blow off this 2012 Presidential Election and Get Involved. His emotional plea illustrates what sacrifices and accomplishments Asian-Americans of all cultures matter. It does not matter that you are on a side that we at American Mishima agrees with. What does matters is that you do not blow off this important election. But don't take our endorsement for it. Let the man who gave you Hikuru Sulu tell you why as an Asian-American or an American of any persuasion tell you himself. Please watch kudasai.