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I’ve been driven by food all my life. My chubbiness, which I’ve never been able to shake all my life, can be attributed to the …
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Rear Part 1 >> Law School It was in Vietnam that Okamoto first started thinking about the rule of law, and the lack thereof around …
“I was in a position in Vietnam—to be in an arena where men with guns made the rules. And there really wasn’t anything called the …
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“Are you related to Mia Doi Todd?”So asks Akira Boch, one of the Japanese American National Museum’s videographers, as he and Jenni Nakamura set up …
On a summer evening in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, the yelling and antics of 27-year-old Craig Ishii and 24-year-old Kristin Fukushima fill the courtyard of …
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The Japanese American National Museum’s current origami instructor and a volunteer since the museum’s opening, Ruthie Kitagawa has been an active member in the community …
Although picking coffee beans on her family’s Hawaiian farm was what Sumiko did each day as a child, she dreamt that one day she would …
Legacy.What was the first thought that came to mind when you read that word?For many of us, the word legacy evokes a deep feeling of …
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Record stores are making a comeback these days, as evidenced by the number of new ones popping up in the past few years. Many of …
It seemed like a step down. Back then, the Valley was a big oven with nothing in it, a great sea of nothing, an ocean …
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