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Toshio Aoki: The Wandering Meiji Artist and Father of Tsuru Aoki
A month ago, I visited the Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento during a weekend trip to the city. In …
Jonathan van Harmelen • July 26, 2023
A Day of Remembrance at JANM
I left Los Angeles over a half decade earlier in 2010 and had not been back since. A visit to see m…
James Okumura • April 13, 2023
Chapter Twelve—The Reveal
I was familiar with the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. It was where my ex, Stewart, taught some a…
Naomi Hirahara • Nov. 4, 2021
OBITUARY: Chiyomi Ogawa, Central Figure in Six Weddings and a Dress
Chiyomi Ogawa, whose life story was told in the exhibit and documentary Six Weddings and a Dress, p…
J.K. Yamamoto • Sept. 5, 2021
#13 My father called me to California
Let's follow the footsteps of Shinichi Kato's father, Matsujiro, after he moved to the U.S.…
Ryusuke Kawai • May 28, 2021
Judge A. Wallace Tashima: A Judge Who Looks Like Us
Living in the bleak barracks of a WWII concentration camp, the young Judge A. Wallace Tashima could…
Sakura Kato • Aug. 6, 2014
A Nikkei Pioneer in the City of Roses: Hanhichi Wakiji - Part 2
Part 1 >>Together, Hanhichi and Taeno raised six children, the Nisei generation (second gener…
Raymond Douglas Chong • March 20, 2008
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Gila River (Ariz.)
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Hanhichi Wakiji
horticulture
immigrants
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Issei
Japan
Little Tokyo
Los Angeles
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Nippon Nursery
nurseries (horticulture)
Pasadena
restaurants
San Pedro
Southern California
Terminal Island
United States
Wakiji Nursery
World War II camps