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Jamal Fahim

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Jamal Fahim is a junior at Occidental College majoring in Sociology and minoring in Film and Media Studies. He is a member of the Occidental Men’s Tennis team and has been playing tennis since he was 10 years old. He grew up in San Francisco, California and his interests include movies, photography, digital design, anime, Japanese culture, improvising and acting.

Updated April 2009


Stories from This Author

Little Tokyo Community Profiles
The Little Tokyo Café: A Family Business

April 14, 2009 • Jamal Fahim

Mitsuko Minohara is the owner of the cozy Little Tokyo Café located at 116 N. San Pedro Street in Los Angeles. Mitsuko is a second-generation Japanese American and was born in Manzanar, California, in 1943. Manzanar served as one of the ten concentration camps that contained roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Mitsuko and her family came to Los Angeles in 1946, a year after the WRA (War Relocation Authority) closed Manzanar. Mitsuko has four children: an older …

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