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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 ...
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 ...
“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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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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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 ...
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 ...
Next to a Philly cheesesteak drive-up booth in downtown Tacoma, there’s a wood-frame two-story house, surrounded by vacant lots on either side, facing a ...
“Well, if we get about ten or fifteen people,” said my colleague Michael Sullivan, “that’ll be a good group. And it’s supposed to ...
Most Japanese language schools in Los Angeles, established by Issei nearly a century ago, have the word gakuen in their names—such as Pasadena Gakuen ...
“What are you working on now?” my hairdresser asks me. We’ve seen each other for years, and she knows about my writing projects. “I ...
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