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Despite disappointment, Japan can take pride
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Following a tumultuous and at-times controversial journey to the knockout stage, Japan came close to reaching their first-ever World Cup quarterfinals on July 2 before having their hearts broken by a last-gasp Belgium goal. In a turn of events few would have predicted, the Samurai Blue fought their way to a 2-0 […]
In Travel
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. On our way south on Interstate 93 a sign for the National Bison Range Visitor Center lured us in for a short stop. A tour to see the herd takes one and-a-half to two hours because it is via a one-way road and once started must be […]
In Books
The origin of shark boy
THE SHARK KING By R. Kikuo Johnson (Sommerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2012, 40 pp., $12.95, hardcover) A beautiful and colorful illustrated comic, Johnson tells the story of Nanaue, the son of Kalei and the Shark King. Set in Hawai‘i in the unspecified past, Nanaue’s story is both fun and mystical. Kalei is rescued from drowning […]
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Japanese Americans condemn Trump Executive Order detaining families
July 5, 2018 By NIKKEI PROGRESSIVES and NIKKEI RESISTERS
Los Angeles’ Nikkei Progressives and San Francisco/Bay Area’s Nikkei Resisters condemn the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has separated children from parents and placed them in child detention centers. This executive order follows several months of tearing children from their parents and jailing them in so-called “tender age” facilities. Despite Trump’s latest executive order […]