New Book Revisits Bygone Sansei Dance Music Scene
Somethin’ Else: Vocalist Royce Jones, bassist Bob Flores, guitarist David Jingu, drummer Nick Urrutia and keyboardist Harry Manaka. (Photo: Courtesy…
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Foster-ing the Love of Writing, Education and Activism in East LA
Sesshu and his daughter at Placita Olvera in Los Angeles (Photo: Lindsay Bolling) Author/educator/activist Sesshu Foster has dedicated his life…
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Save Japantown!
The “Picnic at the Plaza” program has helped generate nearly 70 percent of Japantown restaurant revenue since its start in…
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Finding Frank Fujino
“Go for Broke!” star Van Johnson introduces several Nisei WWII veterans at the Hollywood Bowl at the May 20, 1951,…
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Remembering a Home and the Legacy of Its Japanese Pioneers
The Orange County Japanese Garden went through a major renovation this year in commemoration of its 50th anniversary. A new…
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‘Rockin’ the Boat’ Focuses on Asian Movement Era
A photo from “Rockin’ the Boat” from protest in New York’s Chinatown, circa 1974. (Photo: Mary Uyematsu Gao. Reprinted with…
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A Nisei Artist Luminary Remembered
Stamps commemorating the works of artist Ruth Asawa. (Photo: U.S. Postal Service) The late-Ruth Asawa’s legacy as an artist and…
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The Harada House: Strengthening Our Community Through Action
A Harada family portrait, 1928. Pictured back row from left are Mine, Mary, Calvin, Masa Atsu, Sumi and Clark; front…
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A Secret No More
Classmates Bill Higuchi and Setsuko Saito sit next to each in the center of the front row in the photograph…
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More Than a Mushroom Cloud
Kathleen Burkinshaw (left) and her daughter, Sara, holding a banner Sara made for Ribbon International 2020 (Photo: Courtesy of Kathleen…
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Hiroshima at 75: A Japanese American Perspective
The Eternal Flame Dome (Photo: Courtesy of Rob Buscher) A descendant of the town devastated by the A-bomb, the writer…
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‘Transformative Solidarity’
Ellen Somekawa and Eric Joselyn display their artistic respective signs. (Photo: Hiro Nishikawa) Tsuru for Solidarity continues its social justice…
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Terasaki Budokan: Opening Tip-Off Is Getting Closer
The grand opening of the long-gestating Terasaki Budokan in Little Tokyo was scheduled for June — until the COVID-19 crisis…
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Rally Spotlights Racist Acts in Torrance
Rallygoers in group photo at Wilson Park in Torrance, Calif., on July 11. (Photo: George Toshio Johnston) A spike in…
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Ganbatte for Black Lives Matter!
(From left) Actor Michael B. Jordan, Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright, actor and founder of BLD PWR Kendrick Sampson and actor…
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JA Father of the Medical Marijuana Movement
Years after being a Boy Scout, Tod Mikuriya would go on to become the father of the medical marijuana movement.…
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Welcome Home? From Peace Corps Service to COVID-19 America
Kako and FC Inanga on the bus to the final game of the Comorian Women’s Football National Championship (Photo: Courtesy…
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PBS’ ‘Asian Americans’ Is a Binge-Worthy Gift in Trying Times
The five-hourlong docuseries looks back while mapping hope for the future. By P.C. Staff Recent news reports of Asians in…