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American in a Foreign Motherland

miam

This album documents my first meeting as an adult with my Japanese uncle, as well as our "pilgrimage" back to our family's furusato in Wakayama. Though my mother is Japanese, I was …

2009 Tanabata Festival

ylkawashima

What better way to connect to the community than through beautiful craft work? Surprisingly Nisei Week, the Little Tokyo Public Safety Association's Brian Kito, and the Japanese American National Museum …

Bridging Generations: The UCLA Nikkei Student Union

ylkawashima

In the fall of my first quarter at UCLA I decided to expand my knowledge of the Japanese American community in a fun, explorative way: the Nikkei Student Union (NSU). …

The Little Tokyo Café

Jamal_Fahim

The Little Tokyo Café is a small, family run restaurant that is located on N. San Pedro St. Its owner, Mitsuko Minohara, is a second generation Japanese immigrant whose mother …

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Little Tokyo Community Profiles Collected by: mpitelka

Five Views of Redress: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary

editor

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 culminated almost two decades of struggle to win official government acknowledgement of the violation of Japanese American constitutional rights during World War II. The …