Kara Yokoyama
She is Gosei, actively volunteers with Nisei Week and other organizations around Little Tokyo. She is pursuing a career in Biology in hopes of focusing on neurodegenerative diseases and regenerative therapies.
Updated July 2022
Stories from This Author
Papa Doesn’t Smile Anymore
June 29, 2022 • Kara Yokoyama
I remember when my grandpa had a garden full of hibiscus, plumeria and many other various flowers. He always put the flowers in my hair, and he always said I looked like a little Hawaiian girl, where he was from. I called my grandpa, “Papa.” Papa was also a great cook. All he had to do was taste something from a restaurant, and he could recreate it. He was the same with music. He bought a keyboard just to have …