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Little Tokyo, 1941 As I walked toward Little Tokyo over the First Street Bridge from Boyle Heights, I felt the bracing power of the fiery sunset …
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Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval to the Japanese American community. On the mainland, all West …
Sport has played a major role in the life of Japanese American communities from the first establishment of those communities in the late nineteenth century …
Dr. Joe Takehara, D.D.S., a second generation Japanese American, has trained with the legends of aikido during his fifty-three years of studying the Japanese martial …
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Art Ishii began his judo training in 1954 at Hollywood Judo Dojo in Los Angeles, CA, under the direction of senseis Takashi Kikuchi, Frank Emi, …
It was the 1960s. All the aunties and uncles gathered together. They drove to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to wash and soak about 350 …
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