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Read Part 3 >>THE ORIGINS OF JAPANESE HOSPITALS IN LOS ANGELESThe Japanese community in Los Angeles grew gradually, its growing size reflected in a gradual …
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Have you ever read Ernest Hemingway’s famous novella: “The Old Man and the Sea”? It is a tale of stamina and survival in which Santiago, …
This past year, I worked with students and other volunteers to conduct an inventory of businesses in Little Tokyo; seeing the results made me pause …
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I’ve always thought that our lives would be so much more interesting if it came with a soundtrack. Music adds so much in setting up …
INTRODUCTIONIn the waning days of July, 1985, City View Hospital was transferring its last few patients to St. Vincent’s Medical Center across town. The administrator …
My grandfather passed away when I was four years old. My only memories of him are from when he was already bedridden and deathly ill. …
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Next year, it will have been 95 years since the Japanese Children’s Home of Southern California, called “Shonien,” was built in Los Angeles. Five years …
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As a young man, Sadahiko Akimoto met his wife Yuko when she emigrated from Japan to the U.S. after college because his mother and uncle …
Takanori “Pro” Nimura never forgot the 1927 earthquake because of the auspicious day on which it struck—January 1. In the Nimura family’s small moveable house …
You never know your fate or your path in life, yet somehow I feel we cannot avoid reflecting upon our own lives and making some …
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