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More than miso soup
JAPANESE SOUPS: 66 NOURISHING BROTHS, STEWS AND HOTPOTS By Keiko Iwasaki (North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2021, 128 pp., $16.99, hard cover) When asked to name or identify a Japanese soup, you’ll… [more ... ]
10-year-old Japanese golfer closing in on 12th sponsor
EL CAJON, Calif. — Miroku Suto of Japan looks like a professional golfer with logos of 11 sponsors splashed across her polo shirt, cap, bag and even her belt. Her parents say the deals are worth in the mid-six… [more ... ]
Shinzo Abe, powerful former Japan prime minister, leaves divided legacy
TOKYO — Shinzo Abe was a political blueblood groomed for power. Japan’s longest serving prime minister, he was also perhaps the most polarizing, complex politician in recent Japanese history. Abe, who was… [more ... ]
‘Brilliant’ work relies on oral histories of JA hibakusha
AMERICAN SURVIVORS: TRANS-PACIFIC MEMORIES OF HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI By Naoko Wake (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 408 pp., $29.95, hard cover) In 1974, Betty Mitson and I co-edited a modest… [more ... ]
To-fun for all as Soy and Tofu Festival makes comeback
After two years of dormancy due to the pandemic, the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival returned July 2 to where it all began to hold its festival on San Francisco Japantown’s Peace Plaza. The festival,… [more ... ]
An extensive and accessible approach to Japanese food
Japan: The Cookbook By Nancy Singleton Hachisu (London and New York: Phaidon, 2019, 464 pp., $49.95, hard cover) The first thing you will note about this cookbook is its sheer size. The recipes Nancy Singleton… [more ... ]
Documenting activism as ‘a form of radical care and love’
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN ACTIVISM: BUILDING MOVEMENTS FOR LIBERATION Edited by Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022, 336 pp., $30, paperback) “Contemporary… [more ... ]
Topaz survivors, descendants rankled by Topaz Museum Board’s outreach efforts
While the Topaz Museum board and its supporters would love nothing more than to move forward after a haphazard excavation of what some consider one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in… [more ... ]
Honey Sesame Shirataki Noodles
Shirataki Noodles with Honey Sesame Dressing is a cold and refreshing dish. Top the noodles with shredded egg crepe chicken and cucumber. It’s a perfect guilt-free summer noodle that is low in calories. It’s… [more ... ]
From the Nichi Bei Weekly
California chief justice won’t seek a second 12-year term
August 4, 2022 By AP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court’s chief justice said July 27 that she will not seek a second 12-year term in November and will conclude her current term of office on January 1. The announcement by Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye will give Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, his third opportunity to appoint […]

New Nikkei head of Legal Services for Children hopes to help families in need
August 4, 2022 By TOMO HIRAI, Nichi Bei Weekly
Working with youth has always been a priority for Cathy Sakimura, a Sansei lawyer from Hawai‘i. In her new position as executive director of Legal Services for Children, she leads the San Francisco-based nonprofit, which represents children and families with children, ensuring their access to education and stable living situations. The center also represents clients […]
Daly City: Asian American man robbed, pistol-whipped
August 4, 2022 By Bay City News Service
DALY CITY, Calif. — A 69-year-old Asian American man was robbed and pistol-whipped in Daly City on July 28, an attack the city’s mayor called “truly shocking.” The robbery was reported around 4:30 p.m. July 28 in the 1300 block of Skyline Drive, where the victim reported being robbed of his watch and then struck […]
Producer Janet Yang elected president of film academy
August 4, 2022 By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer
NEW YORK — Producer Janet Yang has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group’s board of governors announced Aug. 2, making her the first Asian American to lead the film academy. Yang, the 66-year-old producer of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” becomes the […]
Survey polls Asian American voters on economy, gun control, education, vote choice and more
August 4, 2022 By Nichi Bei Weekly Staff
WASHINGTON — Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, AAPI Data and Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC released their biannual report measuring Asian American sentiment and attitudes on the issues “top of mind” in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, the organizations said in a statement July 25. The organizations surveyed 1,610 registered Asian American […]

THE GOCHISO GOURMET: Involuntary sequestration
April 23, 2020 By Ryan Tatsumoto, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist

THE KAERU KID: The Kid’s quest for Greco-Roman knowledge continues
November 7, 2013 By The Kaeru Kid
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Topaz survivors, descendants rankled by Topaz Museum Board’s outreach efforts
While the Topaz Museum board and its supporters would love nothing more than to move forward after a haphazard excavation of what some consider one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in Japanese American history, a vocal contingent of activists, academics and survivors are continuing to demand an ongoing dialogue on their terms. The […]
California chief justice won’t seek a second 12-year term
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court’s chief justice said July 27 that she will not seek a second 12-year term in November and will conclude her current term of office on January 1. The announcement by Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye will give Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, his third opportunity to appoint […]
New Nikkei head of Legal Services for Children hopes to help families in need
Working with youth has always been a priority for Cathy Sakimura, a Sansei lawyer from Hawai‘i. In her new position as executive director of Legal Services for Children, she leads the San Francisco-based nonprofit, which represents children and families with children, ensuring their access to education and stable living situations. The center also represents clients […]
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In Sports

10-year-old Japanese golfer closing in on 12th sponsor
EL CAJON, Calif. — Miroku Suto of Japan looks like a professional golfer with logos of 11 sponsors splashed across her polo shirt, cap, bag and even her belt. Her parents say the deals are worth in the mid-six figures annually, with some contracts for 10 years. A 12th sponsorship is waiting when she returns […]
In Travel

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Last September, Rev. Ken Yamada, the former minister of Berkeley Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple, and Rev. Jerry Hirano, minister of Salt Lake City Buddhist Temple, spent 36 days driving through the 48 contiguous states in an RV, racking up more than 13,000 miles. To view […]
In Books

The Fukuhara family caught between two sides
MIDNIGHT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds By Pamela Rotner Sakamoto (New York: Harper, 2016, 464 pp., $29.99, hardback) At our vacation residence in the small San Luis Obispo County community of Los Osos, Calif., my wife and I have a delightful neighbor who is genuinely a “voracious reader.†By […]
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