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Little Tokyo - Coming Full Circle: Tsutomu Maehara and his family, Jo Ann and Chef Akira Hirose, embody the Little Tokyo spirit

Community control over land in Little Tokyo is one of the few strategies that will help prevent displacement of legacy small businesses. The Little Tokyo ...

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J-town Beat: A Bowl Of Katsudon

There are some annoyances to spending most days in Little Tokyo: the traffic, the constant construction, the overflow of hipsters and homeless. But one reason ...

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Community Volunteer Offers Skills To Enrich Lives

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the reasons San Francisco remains a cultural hub is the work of Miki Novitski, whose volunteerism as emcee of the city ...

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Maneki Bartender Fu-chan Has Seen it All

Maneki celebrating its 115th anniversary in 2019 Fusae Yokoyama, a bartender and hostess at Maneki Restaurant for the last 56 years, still serves drinks at ...

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On "Giving Back"

On October 7th, I was asked to share a story on “what inspires me to give back” to a public event hosted by WILLO (Women ...

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Yakima’s Japan Town no longer there, but rich history remains

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Karen Lee has lived in Yakima since 1973. In that time, she never heard of Yakima’s Japan Town, a downtown block packed ...

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Taking Tacoma's Japantown Online

“I live on the edge of Tacoma’s historic Nihonmachi and as I crossed it on my way to downtown, I often wondered what stories ...

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Sawtelle Stories: On the Naming of “Sawtelle Japantown”

The Rise and Fall of Kobayakawa Boarding House—Mr. Ishioka Recognizes the Value in the Naming of Japantown

Today, in the open area on the east side of Sawtelle Boulevard, from La Grange Avenue to Missouri Avenue, stand big complex facilities and apartment ...

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1942 Vancouver Revisited in Nishihata’s Powell Street Diary

Nisei Jesse Nishihata (1929-2006) was working on a TV series idea in the 1980s about the Japanese Canadian community that lived in the Powell Street ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

"To Jesse, with Love": Son Publishes Powell Street Diary

And underneath this sheltering bowlWe call the sky,Do not lift up your finger;For It moves as impotently as you or I. —Omar Khayyam ...