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Whether Californians know it or not, they have a national treasure living among them. He just turned 102. He lives a quiet life in the …
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It was a typically hectic Saturday morning. My son, Troy, and I were frantically driving home from basketball practice in order to be at baseball …
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Chohichi Tanaka left Itoshima in Fukuoka, Japan in the early 1900s looking for a better life. He decided to venture to America where he thought …
That’s the reason I’ve always just got to think to myself, I don’t know what it is but everything happens to me by chance or …
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As I’m writing this essay, I have moved between the despair I mentioned last month and the hope that I have for the future. My …
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James Yoshinaga was born in 1929 in downtown Los Angeles as the eldest son of a mother from Fukuoka and a father from Kagoshima. His …
One hot summer afternoon back in 2008, my husband and I had just finished taking my mother to Huntington Library for her 83rd birthday. We …
It’s not often that one gets to shake hands with a Medal of Honor recipient, especially since there are only 78 in the country still …
Masuo John (Matt) Koike was born in New York in 1935 to first-generation Japanese parents, Izumi and Iku, who had emigrated from Japan. Before moving …
George “Horse” Yoshinaga, a longtime columnist for The Rafu Shimpo and The Kashu Mainichi, passed away peacefully on Monday at his home in Gardena. He …
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