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The Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight calls JANM’s exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market, “a captivating theater of dreams.” The virtual reality experience depicts …
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Fish King in Glendale has announced that Hank “Toto” Kagawa passed away on the morning of March 16. He was 92. “Since 1956, Hank worked …
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Mollie Oto is one of those rare people of whom it could be said was truly irreplaceable. But though her recent passing saddened so many, …
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How Jichan Became an Araki Although Jichan was born Nisaku Kaneda, the second of four sons in the Kaneda family of Fukui-ken, when he married, …
Read an interview with Earl Santo >> Helen, could you introduce yourself with your full name, your birthday, and where you were born? Helen Hiroko …
Read Part 1 >> So coming back to San Jose, you resettled back here? Yes. Was the reason because your parents were already familiar with …
Any visit to the quaint neighborhood of San Jose’s Japantown often necessitates that you visit at least one of three institutions: the manju shop Shuei-Do, …
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Pursuing Japanese food and service culture with American hospitality, a restaurant was opened last year near the Pike Place Market. Notable and legendary local chef …
The most painful hole in downtown Tacoma has to be at the corners of 11th and Market where once Tacoma public markets filled both sides …
Sansei Nakashima Brothers Are Leading Their Family Store Into Its Sixth Decade of Business Rice—and lots of gambare (persevere) spirit—are just two of the many …
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