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Keiro Addresses Community at Open Meeting

Each July during Obon, Japanese Americans gather in the Nishi Hongwanji Temple gym to buy udon. Under the basketball hoops, they slurp noodles out of ...

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Mitsugi's Christmas

This story is dedicated to my Japanese grandfathers. Keiichi Kuida and Yoshio Osumi who I never met, and Masashi Bancho Okazaki, who I wish I ...

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West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care

Part IV: Seattle’s Nikkei Concerns

Having surveyed the landscape of Nikkei long-term care choices in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Sacramento and San Jose, I turned my attentions to Seattle ...

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City View Hospital and the Japanese Hospitals of California - Part 6

Read Part 5 >> CITY VIEW HOSPITAL INITIATIVESThe hospital administration was aware of the dispersal of the community, of its aging staff, and of its decreased ...

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Profile: James Mitsumori, one of Keiro Senior HealthCare’s Founding Fathers

Although a number of Nikkei and Asian eldercare organizations grew organically out of existing Japanese Issei “Pioneer” or community centers, church, or civic organizations, Keiro ...

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West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care

Part I - Nikkei Eldercare in Los Angeles

My mother is in some ways a typical Southern California Nisei. She has participated in organized Nikkei ballroom dance, camera club, and widow’s groups ...

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過去の「敬老」と現在の「KEIRO」を巡る思い

人々が出会う場所 ロサンゼルス周辺の日本人や日系人で、敬老のことを知らない人はいないだろう。1960年代、故フレッド和田さんを中心とする８人の日系社会のリーダーによって ...

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老いても書く喜び学ぶ　－敬老引退者ホーム文章教室－

ロサンゼルスのボイルハイツにある敬老引退者ホームで昨年、ちょっと変わったクラスが開かれた。日英両語の文章教室である。同ホームには墨絵や陶芸などさまざまな趣味のクラスをはじめ、ヨガや太極拳などのエクササイズのクラス ...

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日本語で書こうとした理由　－グレース・フジタさん－

ボイルハイツにある敬老引退者ホームでこの春、ちょっと珍しいクラスが開かれました。同ホームでは、引退した日系人らが余生を有意義に楽しく過ごせるよう、各種の習い事から体操までさまざまなクラスを設けているのですが ...