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  • A celebration of decades of community with Nobuko Miyamoto

    A celebration of decades of community with Nobuko Miyamoto

    The last time Nobuko Miyamoto performed in San Francisco, she had black hair. But the octogenarian musician and activist still had the groove and the movements as she commanded the stage for “120,000 Stories”… [more ... ]

    A celebration of decades of community with Nobuko Miyamoto
  • Martha Nakagawa, community journalist and activist, dies

    Martha Nakagawa, community journalist and activist, dies

    Martha Miiko Nakagawa, a long-time community journalist, researcher and advocate, passed away on the morning of July 28 at Los Angeles General Medical Center. She was 56. She was suffering from late-stage metastatic… [more ... ]

    Martha Nakagawa, community journalist and activist, dies
  • Tsukune (Japanese chicken meatball skewers) つくね

    Tsukune (Japanese chicken meatball skewers) つくね

    Ready for a summer cookout? I highly recommend giving this tsukune recipe a try. Drizzled with sweet soy sauce, these Japanese chicken meatball skewers are absolutely delicious. They are best on the grill, but you… [more ... ]

    Tsukune (Japanese chicken meatball skewers) つくね
  • Actor Park adapts a favorite Tomine graphic novel for his feature debut ‘Shortcomings’

    Actor Park adapts a favorite Tomine graphic novel for his feature debut ‘Shortcomings’

    PARK CITY, Utah — Randall Park was a struggling actor when he first encountered Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel “Shortcomings” in 2007. The story focused on a twentysomething Japanese American man named Ben,… [more ... ]

    Actor Park adapts a favorite Tomine graphic novel for his feature debut 'Shortcomings’
  • New Ohlone College President Charles Sasaki rolls up his sleeves

    New Ohlone College President Charles Sasaki rolls up his sleeves

    While most of his family is in Hawai‘i, Charles Sasaki’s arrival in California to take over Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif. is somewhat of a homecoming for the Gosei — or fifth-generation Japanese American… [more ... ]

    New Ohlone College President Charles Sasaki rolls up his sleeves

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THE HEART OF KANJI: Universal arrangement

August 17, 2023 By Rev. Masato Kawahatsu, Nichi Bei News Columnist

天地 (Tenchi) means “Heaven and Earth.” The first character’s top line represents the sky and the line below represents a large person. The second character’s left side represents land and the right side represents a snake. 繰り合 (Kuriawase) means “arrangement.” The first character’s left side represents a string. The top lines of the right side […]

Haunted by Half Moon Bay mass shootings, Chinese farmworkers search for a way back

August 17, 2023 By Peter Schurmann, Special to the Bay City News

Mr. Huang lives in a modest, one-bedroom apartment just off Highway 1 a few miles outside the city of Half Moon Bay. Originally from Hong Kong, he stands at the front door to welcome the coterie of support providers arriving for one of their regular visits. Before January, Huang and a handful of other Chinese […]

Japanese American Citizens League joins Save Our Seniors Network to support Rep. Judy Chu’s call for an investigation of Kei-Ai Los Angeles

August 17, 2023 By Japanese American Citizens League and Save Our Seniors Network

The Japanese American Citizens League joins the call for a complete and thorough investigation and oversight of Kei-Ai Los Angeles due to the disproportionate mortality rate resulting in 115 deaths largely occurring between November 2020 and May 2021. Rep. Judy Chu initiated the calls for an investigation with a letter sent to the Centers for […]

Santa Clara Co.: Sheriff’s office denies forcibly removing arrested woman’s hijab

August 17, 2023 By Gabe Agcaoili, Bay City News

The Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office denied Aug. 5 that one of its deputies forcibly removed a hijab of a Muslim woman that was arrested and booked in a Milpitas correctional facility. The statement came days after the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) said the Muslim woman, Asia Aden, had her hijab […]

Marin Co.: Muslim civil rights group condemns racist flyers left on driveways

August 17, 2023 By Bay City News Service

The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has condemned the recent distribution of flyers containing racist and antisemitic language in North Bay cities. The flyers were left on residents’ driveways in Larkspur and Corte Madera on July 30, according to the Central Marin Police Authority. Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San […]

YURI KOCHIYAMA: Remembering a legend

August 7, 2014 By TOMO HIRAI, Nichi Bei Weekly

Art Shibayama, who continued fight for Japanese Latin American redress, dies

August 16, 2018 By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Nichi Bei Weekly

CONTINUING TRADITIONS: The evolution of koto artist Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto

April 3, 2021 By KENJI G. TAGUMA, Nichi Bei Weekly

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A celebration of decades of community with Nobuko Miyamoto

The last time Nobuko Miyamoto performed in San Francisco, she had black hair. But the octogenarian musician and activist still had the groove and the movements as she commanded the stage for “120,000 Stories” at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco’s Presidio Aug. 5. Miyamoto, whose career spans decades, reflected on her life, which began […]

New Ohlone College President Charles Sasaki rolls up his sleeves

While most of his family is in Hawai‘i, Charles Sasaki’s arrival in California to take over Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif. is somewhat of a homecoming for the Gosei — or fifth-generation Japanese American — administrator. “My parents met in college in Los Angeles, so that’s why I was born in California. So I think, […]

Santa Clara Co.: Sheriff’s office denies forcibly removing arrested woman’s hijab

The Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office denied Aug. 5 that one of its deputies forcibly removed a hijab of a Muslim woman that was arrested and booked in a Milpitas correctional facility. The statement came days after the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) said the Muslim woman, Asia Aden, had her hijab […]

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THE HEART OF KANJI: Universal arrangement

By Rev. Masato Kawahatsu, Nichi Bei News Columnist

THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Internationally-trained pianist and ‘no-no’ Newton Tani

By GREG ROBINSON, Nichi Bei News Columnist

THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Gratitude for Art Hansen, ‘a gifted mentor and inspiration’

By GREG ROBINSON, Nichi Bei News Columnist

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Trio of APIA Yankees help make MLB history

OAKLAND, Calif. — On June 28, three New York Yankees of Asian Pacific Islander heritage contributed to a history-making night at the Oakland Coliseum. Catcher Kyle Higashioka and super utilityman Isiah Kiner-Falefa — both of Japanese descent — and Filipino American shortstop Anthony Volpe helped New York starting pitcher Domingo German earn the 24th perfect […]

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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 […]

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ALL THAT REMAINS: The Legacy of the World War II Japanese American Internment Camps By Delphine Hirasuna (San Francisco: Delphine Hirasuna, 2016, 64 pp., $20, paperback) Available at the San Francisco Japanese American Citizens League. Delphine Hirasuna’s new volume “All That Remains,” written in collaboration with Kit Hinrichs and Terry Heffernan, forms part of a […]

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