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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Yuriko & Carlos

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 ...

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

More Than A Game – Sport in the Japanese American Community, 1885 to Present - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval to the Japanese American community. On the mainland, all West Coast ...

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

More Than A Game – Sport in the Japanese American Community, 1885 to Present - Part 1

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 ...

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Dr. Joe Takehara and Chicago Aikido

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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The Level of Training Was Different

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 ...