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When people ask me what it’s like to be doing Valley of the Heart by the Luis Valdez at the Mark Taper Forum, my go-to …
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Ichiro Suzuki is easily the most accomplished Japanese baseball player to ever compete in Major League Baseball. The Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the …
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In a sharp black tuxedo and matching bowtie, Chris Tashima takes the stage at the 1998 Academy Awards. His small gold earring sparkles. His jet-black …
Twenty-five years have passed in what seems only a few moments: the Little Tokyo years of VC. Its founders pragmatically called it Visual Communications, Southern …
Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval to the Japanese American community. On the mainland, all West …
Sport has played a major role in the life of Japanese American communities from the first establishment of those communities in the late nineteenth century …
In Tea, With Music, actress Yumi Iwama plays Setsuko Banks, a Japanese war bride. This role was a particularly compelling and unique one for her, …
Marilyn Tokuda has been working for East West Players (EWP) since 2002 and is the organizations first Arts Education Director. She was one of the …
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Farewell to Manzanar, adapted from the memoir that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston penned with her husband, James D. Houston, tells the story of the injustice suffered …
A new generation of Japanese America is rising and playwright Paul Kikuchi represents a different breed of Asian American theatre practitioners ready to tackle head …
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