Janice E. Noguchi
Janice E. Noguchi, the daughter of Harry Haruki and Matsuko Nancy Noguchi of Sacramento, is an accounting major at San Francisco State University.
Updated October 1985
Stories from This Author
Kenjin-Kai: Overlooked in Nikkei History - Part 2 of 2
Sept. 9, 2009 • Janice E. Noguchi
>> Part 1In 1942, the Sacramento Hiroshima Kenjin-kai dissolved as members were separated and sent to different concentration camps. Kenjin-kai members didn’t regroup until after World War II. In 1946, the year in which the first post-war meeting was held, virtually all the previous members came back to Sacramento and tried to pick up where the kenjin-kai left off before the war. The Hiroshima Kenjin-kai continued to offer the same types of assistance to members as it did …
Kenjin-Kai: Overlooked in Nikkei History - Part 1 of 2
Sept. 2, 2009 • Janice E. Noguchi
In researching kenjin-kai, I was appalled at the lack of interest demonstrated by the majority of authors of Japanese American historical literature who never elaborated on the significant role kenjin-kai have played in the past. Having taken a back seat to other Japanese American organizations—the JACL, for example—the kenjin-kai have not received the recognition deserved for the innumerable ways in which they have touched Issei and Nisei lives. In my research, I discovered that many records of past kenjin-kai were …
