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Seattle Nikkei community welcomes Mariners’ Iwakuma
SEATTLE — The local Japanese American community turned out April 14 to welcome the Mariners’ number-two starter, Hisashi Iwakuma, to Seattle. Nearly 200 people filled the main hall of the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington to meet the former Nippon Professional Baseball star. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn praised Iwakuma’s fundraising work for Japanese [...]
‘IF YOU DON’T SPEAK UP, WHO ELSE WILL?’:
Editor’s Note: This article from April 2012 is reprinted with permission from KoreAm Journal (http://iamkoream.com/april-issue-k-w-lee-challenges-the-grandchildren-of-the-la-riots). Twenty springs ago this month, for three days and nights South Central L.A. and the neighboring Koreatown burned, choked and wailed. Come April 29, it’s that awful déjà vu time again, when I, as one-time editor of the lone English [...]
THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Let that wine breathe
So you finally received that new shipment of Cabernet Sauvignon from your favorite winery (2010). You’ve been waiting six months for the shipment to arrive, and now that it’s in your hands, you want to sample it, although you should put it in the cellar to let it age. But since we can never tell [...]
Japanese American confinement site grants announced
WASHINGTON — National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced 10 grants totaling more than $1.4 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Some 120,000 persons of Japanese descent were detained, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, following Japan’s attack on [...]
OMOTESENKE: The appreciation of tea
It is customary when greeting guests to first serve tea in typical Japanese custom. This longtime tradition of Japanese etiquette and culture is, at its core, an artform that concentrates on fulfilling the role of being an excellent host, says John Larissou, tea instructor for the Omotesenke school of tea. “The term ‘tea ceremony’ is [...]
In Sports
Seattle Nikkei community welcomes Mariners’ Iwakuma
SEATTLE — The local Japanese American community turned out April 14 to welcome the Mariners’ number-two starter, Hisashi Iwakuma, to Seattle. Nearly 200 people filled the main hall of the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington to meet the former Nippon Professional Baseball star. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn praised Iwakuma’s fundraising work for Japanese [...]
In Travel
Editor’s Note: This is the final part a four-part series. The Farm Villa driver took me to the Ranthambore train station, where I caught a 16-hour trip to Mumbai. I had a sleeper reservation, though it was not very private or comfortable, but the price was just a little over $20. Making a train reservation [...]
In Books
Nikkei stories of survival
FAMILY TORN APART: THE INTERNMENT STORY OF THE OTOKICHI MUIN OZAKI FAMILY Edited By Gail Honda (Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, 2012, 312 pp., $26, paperback) GO FOR BROKE! ME AND THE WAR By Isami (Mike) Tsuji (Fullerton, Calif.: Nikkei Writers Guild, A Division of Japanese American Living Legacy, 2011, 160 pp., $14, paperback) [...]
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