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Olympic Medalist Tommy Kono Dies at 85
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Tommy Tamio Kono, who won three Olympic medals in weightlifting and became head coach of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team, died on April 24, 2016, in Honolulu, according to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He was 85.
Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum
William “Bill” Hiroshi Shishima
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Bill Shishima grew up eating gohan along with lingua (tongue), seso (brain), and menudo (tripe soup). His father ran a grocery store near Olvera Street, in the Mexican American community of Los Angeles. The store was stocked with items such as chile and masa for tamales. In the store’s kitchen, …
Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum
James Michiya Yoshinaga
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James Yoshinaga was born in 1929 in downtown Los Angeles as the eldest son of a mother from Fukuoka and a father from Kagoshima. His father was from a small land owning family in a farming village, and James’ family moved to Japan temporarily when he was three years old. …
Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum
Gary Ono
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Gary Ono’s sunny Little Tokyo apartment is a monument to the things he loves.
Asian American Yale Alumni Remember Nakanishi
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NEW YORK—The Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) issued the following statement on March 27, 2016.
Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum
May Fujino
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Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum
Yasuyuki Suzuki
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“Working as a volunteer guide at the Japanese American National Museum is such an interesting experience. I’ve taken a class about the history of Japanese Americans, but there’s no manual for my work. So I have to study constantly,” says Yasuyuki Suzuki.