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Pasadena Buddhist Temple’s LGBTQ flag set on fire
PASADENA, Calif. — A rainbow flag at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple — a salute to the LGBTQ community — was set on fire and burned on April 24, according to Gregory Gibbs, the resident minister who is in his ninth year at the temple. Local artists made the hand-painted Progress Pride flag, which — measuring […]
Groups demand officials share information on Texas mall gunman’s motives
DALLAS (AP) — Members of several Texas groups representing people of color on May 15 demanded that authorities quickly acknowledge whether they believe the neo-Nazi who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall over a week ago was racially motivated in choosing his victims. More than a week after the May 6 attack at the […]
Texas mall victims include several members from two families
DALLAS — The people killed in a shooting at a mall near Dallas include two elementary school-age sisters, a couple and their 3-year-old son, a young engineer and a security guard. The victims represent a multicultural cross-section of the area’s increasingly diverse suburbs. Cox Elementary School students Daniela and Sofia Mendoza, grades four and two, […]
SJ: Police arrest 3 East Bay men suspected in robberies targeting AAPI community
Three East Bay men have been arrested in connection with recent robberies targeting the Asian American-Pacific Islander community throughout the Bay Area, San Jose police said May 1. The trio, suspected in a string of armed and strong-arm robberies from December to February, were identified as 26-year-old Joel Contreras Barron of Antioch, 28-year-old Francisco Rincon […]
In Sports
Giants honor Japanese legacy on Japanese Heritage Night
On May 16, hundreds of baseball fans arrived early to the San Francisco Giants game to enjoy Japanese Heritage Night at Oracle Park. The Giants organization hosted the annual event in partnership with the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California. This year the San Francisco Giants recognized the 120th anniversary of the 1903 […]
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
Stimulating an appreciation of America’s diverse history and cultures through preservation
HISTORIC WINTERSBURG IN HUNTINGTON BEACH By Mary F. Adams Urashima (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014, 208 pp., $19.99, paperback) The most fitting way I can think of to begin this review of Mary Adams Urashima’s “Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach,” is to appropriate and slightly modify what the great American poet Walt Whitman said […]
Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of Tule Lake Committee v. FAA, et al.
May 25, 2023 By BARBARA TAKEI
Earlier this month, the Tule Lake Committee lost its appeal in Tule Lake Committee v. FAA, et al. The U.S. Ninth Circuit in San Francisco affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the Committee’s lawsuit that sought to assert a Japanese American voice to preserve a site sacred to our community. The dismissal was a setback […]