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Playing basketball has always been more than just a game for me. It’s about the relationships you make on and off the court. Growing up …
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Don Mizota was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and as a toddler, he and his family spent the wartime years interned in Jerome, Arkansas, …
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Nancy Oda was very happily retired when she learned about Tuna Canyon. “Very happily retired,” she says for a second time. “It was like a …
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“I want Caucasians to eat it.” Chinchikurin—Hiroshima okonomiyaki restaurant on Sawtelle Boulevard Finding a parking spot on a street in Sawtelle on a Friday night …
During the cooler months of fall in the Imperial Valley before the war, only one thing was as important, if not more important, than the …
Nisshoki gaSutadiamu no men masuto ni agattaIma dewa yume de nakunatta.Kakkoku tokutenhyo niNihon wa gungun nobotte yuki.Rosanjerusu no aozora niSanran to, jitsuni sanran toHirugaette iruNisshoki …
The Gardena Valley Gardeners Association (GVGA), once an influential force in the South Bay, will officially disband at the end of 2015. The GVGA came …
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 …
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For Japanese Americans of my generation (second generation Nisei over 60), the source of our moral and cultural values is both clear and easily defined. …
Both of my parents were young children when E.O. 9066 was signed. My mom, Machiko Okazaki, lived in four places from the ages of four …
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