On January 25, Takato Ishida, 35, won the Fukui gubernatorial election, becoming the youngest incumbent prefectural governor in Japan. He collected 134,620 votes, narrowly beating former...
18-year-old Benjamin ‘Ben’ Nguyen made history as Ohio’s youngest and first South Vietnamese American elected official. Sworn in on December 15 to the Lakota School Board,...
On January 2, Kaohly Vang Her took the oath of office, officially becoming St. Paul’s first Hmong American mayor. Her historic swearing made history as she...
John Park was officially elected mayor of Brookhaven, Georgia, becoming the state’s first Asian American Mayor. The Korean American city council member received 59% of the...
