JAVA Advocate – Fall 2014
Read the JAVA Advocate, Fall 2014 edition.
Inside this issue:
- Dedication of Inouye Parade Field at Fort Benning
- President’s Message
- JAVA Vice President Attends Admiral McRaven’s Retirement Ceremony
- Welcome New Members!
- Nagano Prefecture students enjoy presentations by Mary Murakami and Terry Shima while visiting DC
- JAVA Fundraiser to Support Fisher House
- Promotion of LCDR Jason Yuki Osuga
- Update from BG Garrett Yee
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
- President Obama selects Japanese American Major General to build a force to fight rebels
- Japan Imperial Navy Z Plan: Most Important Intelligence Acquisition in Southwest Pacific During WW II—Two Nisei Served on Translation Team
- Dr. Seiya Ohata recalls his Combat Medic Duties in Operation Overlord: Normandy and Battle of the Bulge
- JAVA Quarterly Luncheon Includes Announcement of Scholarship Winners, Congratulations
- 442nd Members and Lost Battalion Officer Reunion when 442nd Returned for Presidential Review
- JAVA Speaks to US Japan Youth Exchange Program
- JAVA Presents Painting to Charlotte Hall Veterans Home
- US Solicitor General Withheld Key Internment Information from Supreme Court; Former Acting Solicitor General Disclosed Details at Veterans Day Program
- Mizukoshi Completes Washington Assignment and Returns to Home
- Takeshi Ishihara Honored by JAVA
- 442nd Chaplain Celebrates 100th Birthday
- Colonel Viet Xuan Luong Promoted to Flag Rank; First Vietnamese American General
- Japanese American Nominated to Head Combined US Forces in the Pacific
- LTG Bostick Scheduled for JAVA’s Quarterly Luncheon
- US-Japan Research Institute and Nissan Global Foundation Hold Forum Featuring JAVA Speakers
- Meet the Generals & Admirals
- Major General Jason Kamiya, USA (Ret.)
- LTG Joseph F. Peterson, USA (Ret.)
- News from Army’s Topside…
- General Mashiko Retires After 34 Years of Honorable Service to the Nation
- Campbell Takes ISAF Command in Afghanistan
- S. Floyd Mori: The Japanese American Story
- Lawson Sakai and Grant Ujifusa Recognized as JACLERs of the Biennium
- Floyd Mori and Christine Sato-Yamazaki Honored at 9th Annual WWAAC
- Kaoru Shimabukuro, MIS, Passes
- Bob Nakamoto Interred at Arlington Cemetery
- Julia N. Kuroda, Valued JAVA Member, Passes
- JAVA Honor Roll
- Tortolano Speaks at Annual FFNV Exhibit
- JAVA Members Speak at the 66th Japanese American Student Conference
- The General’s Messenger
- News from Veterans Organizations & Friends
- Thank you, Donors!
- Japanese American Veterans Association Membership Application
- Upcoming Events
- Correspondence