>> Part 2Having compiled a brilliant list of achievements as a French chef that would make anyone envious, the next goal for Mr. Sato was to have his own restaurant. “In the old days, most people didn’t open their own place once they became head chef at a good hotel …
>> Part 1Mr. Sato, a chef who went to Switzerland on an overseas program after the Tokyo Olympics, spent time in France and England before heading to America in 1971 to work at The Plaza Hotel in New York. After coming to the realization that “unlike Europe, American cooking was …
Until 2004, French cuisine chef, Ryo Sato, managed a restaurant named Chez Sato in Arcadia, outside of Los Angeles. Although well beyond the metropolitan area, it was an extremely popular French restaurant, with people more than willing to make the journey. Since moving in 2004 and shutting down the restaurant, …
>> Part 2Meeting Mr. Nahan Gluck, a volunteer docent at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo for the past 14 years, felt like touching someone who “loyally acts on what he believes in”.
On January 29, at the Japan Foundation in downtown Los Angeles, a screening for a documentary called “Toyo’s Camera” took place. This movie was produced and directed by Junichi Suzuki who made his name in Japan and moved to America after getting his green card.
>> Part 1 After retiring from a Los Angeles County job in 1992 and seeing actual barracks from the Heart Mountain Internment Camp, Mr. Nahan Gluck started volunteering at the Japanese American National Museum in 1994. He is not of Japanese descent.
I am a Shin Issei—born in Japan, a first generation Japanese American. It has been 17 years since I came to the United States. During that time, I have interviewed many Nikkei. I had several opportunities to visit the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo when it was still …
Read Part 2 >>After the war, Masako had left Japan to marry Kato Mitsuo, successor to the once prominent Daruma Café in Little Tokyo. However, just five years after her arrival in the US and despite the couple’s heavy investment into renovating the restaurant, they were run out of business …
Read Part 1 >>A week after their meeting at Aiko Yamano’s home, Masako and Mitsuo Kato had their wedding. From their wedding album, one can tell how extremely luxurious of a wedding it must have been at the time.
The term “Nikkei American” consists of many different shapes and forms. Some Nikkei Americans are born and raised in America, and there are also “Kibei,” Nikkei Americans who are born in the US but leave their parents to go study in Japan and are essentially raised in Japan. Some are …
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