{"id":648793,"date":"2026-05-05T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:31:09","slug":"japanese-san-jose-state-student-became-a-1942-ncaa-boxing-champ-before-internment-kion-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648793\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese San Jose State student became a 1942 NCAA boxing champ before internment \u2013 KION Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lee helps tell the story of \u201cDick\u201d Miyagawa, a 1942 NCAA boxing champ, who was a student at San Jose State before being taken to the internment camps.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KION 46 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kion546.com\/about\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kioncentralcoast.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Lee helps tell the story of \u201cDick\u201d Miyagawa, a 1942 NCAA boxing champ, who was a student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-648793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}