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Long-time Gone: Toronto’s J-Town - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Every community has and needs services and other institutions. J-Town Toronto was no different. As I mentioned last month, Dr. Kuwabara (family ...

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Long-time Gone: Toronto’s J-Town - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> The Toronto Buddhist Church started life at 134 Huron Street, in the heart of J-Town, when the Buddhist Church committee purchased a ...

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Long-time Gone: Toronto’s J-Town - Part 1

Though not widely acknowledged, J-Town Toronto did exist. Very little of it can be found today and, back in the day, no one called it ...

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Santo Market Owners: Helen Santo

Read an interview with Earl Santo >> Helen, could you introduce yourself with your full name, your birthday, and where you were born? Helen Hiroko Kodama ...

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Santo Market Owners: Earl Santo - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> So coming back to San Jose, you resettled back here? Yes. Was the reason because your parents were already familiar with it ...

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Santo Market Owners: Earl Santo - Part 1

Any visit to the quaint neighborhood of San Jose’s Japantown often necessitates that you visit at least one of three institutions: the manju shop ...

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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 ...