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(Gwen Muranaka)

Gwen Muranaka, Senior Editor, has been with The Rafu Shimpo since 2001. Prior to that, she worked in Tokyo at the Japan Times where she still contributes the weekly cartoon “Noodles.” She attended UCLA where she received a BA in English literature and also studied one year at Waseda University. Muranaka started in community newspapers as assistant editor at the Pacific Citizen.

Updated March 2021

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'Hit' After Hit for Ally Maki

  • グウェン・ムラナカ
  • 2021年12月9日

JA actress talks Toy Story, Asian American representation and her newest project, Hit-Monkey.

Ally Maki definitely has a thing for authority figures. She memorably portrays police officers in Toy Story 4, as the bubbly, tiny Officer Giggle McDimples, the first Asian American Toy Story character, and in her newes…

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Fighting Hatred With Song

  • グウェン・ムラナカ
  • 2021年9月2日

“Your eyes tell the story of your family.” 

Through its long history, Sesame Street has addressed difficult issues, and the troubling rise in anti-Asian hatred during the COVID-19 pandemic is no different.

In the video, Filipina American Analyn, performed by Claudia Fabella, is sad becau…

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Obituary: Eunice Sato, 99 — First Female Mayor of Long Beach

  • グウェン・ムラナカ
  • 2021年3月9日

LONG BEACH — Eunice N. Sato, the first Asian American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, passed away of cardio-pulmonary arrest on Feb. 12, 2021. She was 99.

Sato served as mayor of Long Beach for two years in the early 1980s, the first woman to lead the city, guiding it through a period of …

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Love is Little Tokyo: Iconic mural becomes the setting for a special engagement

  • グウェン・ムラナカ
  • 2020年10月14日

Auntie Nancy would be proud.

Little Tokyo has been through much in 2020, but last Saturday was a rare moment of celebration and joy in this most difficult year. Under the “Home Is Little Tokyo” Mural Matt Consalvi got down on one knee and asked his girlfriend, Marissa Hernandez, to be his wife.

&l…

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Taking Flight After The Tumult

  • グウェン・ムラナカ
  • 2020年7月3日

Little Tokyo and yearning for meaning and hope in the power of place.

A bird taking flight.

Little Tokyo is a small neighborhood of artists and activists, of commerce and spirituality, of parades and protests, densely layered by its long history and its proximity to the seats of power.

And so, in early June, N…

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