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Steveston, at the southern end of the city of Richmond, had long been home to a large and active Japanese community—until 1942, when all ...
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On July 30, Japanese martial art Shorinji Kempo will hold its world championships in the U.S. for the first time. We talked with Hiroshi ...
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The famous Vancouver Asahi baseball teams have been well-documented and the latest, a movie made in Japan called Asahi was the “icing on the cake ...
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Guilty Pleasures, Part II”… Check back every weekend for ...
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Guilty Pleasures (Kung-Fu Movies Edition) Part I"… Check back ...
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 ...
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Read Part 1 >>Japanese American Sumo in the New Era: From Issei to Nisei The 1924 Immigration Act was an important turning point in the ...
Sumo—in which two hefty, virtually naked men push, shove, and throw each other—probably looks like an exotic sport to most Americans. Young Japanese ...
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 ...
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Being a martial artist was not supposed to be a part of my life. The plan for me was to focus on school and get ...
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