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I stood in front of the open storage unit, my hands on my hips. I felt like I was an Olympic athlete who had accomplished …
In the 1970s, the debates around who and what the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) would represent demonstrated a generational rift between Nisei …
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I had a chance to sit down and talk with filmmaker Tad Nakamura about his newest documentary Mele Murals and its L.A. Premiere, co-presented by …
FandangObon is a project that brings together the Japanese, Mexican, and African-American communities into one circle to share participatory music and dance traditions in order …
Read Chapter Five >> As I make my way to the Koban Visitors Center, First Street in Little Tokyo is hopping. And I don’t mean just …
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This summer, taiko players from all over the world will come together in Little Tokyo for the inaugural World Taiko Gathering. Masato Baba, Project Coordinator, …
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On February 11, 2014, at a meeting of the Rotary Club of East Los Angeles, Stonebridge Entertainment‘s Gerald Ishibashi spoke about a project that he …
Almost twenty years ago, on January 15, 1985, a steel container, 4 feet high and 18 inches in diameter, was buried beneath a tree fronting …
If you’ve heard about a thing called “Tuesday Night Cafe” you might have heard this line: “We’re one of the longest-running, free, public art+community series in …
“I was in a position in Vietnam—to be in an arena where men with guns made the rules. And there really wasn’t anything called the …
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