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Kurt Kitayama breaks through in wild finish at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against March 5 in the Arnold Palmer… [more ... ]
Hikari Farms keeps the legacy of the Issei farmers alive
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Hikari Farms has faced hardships before, so Janet Nagamine, who manages the third-generation family farm in Watsonville, is optimistic that the operation will continue and even grow in spite… [more ... ]
Hayward, Calif. community holds dedication for Japanese American Memorial
Dozens of Bay Area community members paid tribute to the 606 Japanese American residents of the Hayward, Calif. area who were forcibly removed from their homes in 1942, at a ceremony Feb. 4, dedicating a new public… [more ... ]
Pitcher Roki Sasaki is the next ‘big thing’ from Japanese baseball
TOKYO — In Japan they call pitcher Roki Sasaki the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” which translates roughly into a “once-in-a-generation superstar.” In simple English, Sasaki is likely to be the next big… [more ... ]
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For Asian Americans, Yeoh, Quan’s Oscar wins are theirs too
March 16, 2023 By TERRY TANG, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Edward Dion Fariñas watches the Academy Awards every year but the Filipino American didn’t expect to have such a visceral reaction when hearing Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh’s awards announced. “I had a squeal come out that I was not expecting,” said Fariñas, who was watching Sunday from his Austin, Texas, […]
Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga enters supervisor race
March 16, 2023 By Tran Nguyen, San Jose Spotlight
Longtime Mountain View Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga has more to give as she looks beyond serving in her city. Abe-Koga, 52, is the first to enter the race for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors District 5 seat. She announced her bid to replace incumbent Supervisor Joe Simitian at a Lunar New Year event hosted […]
San Francisco board open to reparations with $5M payouts
March 16, 2023 By JANIE HAR, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family. These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee […]
Congressional resolution honors victims of shootings in Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park
March 16, 2023 By Thomas Hughes, Bay City News
U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives on March 7 honoring the lives of the victims of two mass shootings in California in January, including ones that took the lives of seven farmworkers in Half Moon Bay. The resolution was introduced along with Rep. Judy Chu, whose district […]

L.A. Day of Remembrance focuses on inter-community support
March 2, 2023 By TAKESHI NAKAYAMA, Nichi Bei News Contributor
LOS ANGELES — The 2023 Day of Remembrance, held Feb. 18 at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, urged the Japanese American community and individuals to work together with other communities “to fight for a strong and democratic society.” Organizers dedicated the event, titled “Uniting Our Voices: Making Democracy Work for All,” to […]

Shirley Muramoto’s ‘Hidden Legacy’ to explore arts in the wartime camps
April 4, 2014 By HEATHER ITO, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor

Entertainment Re-Oriented: YEAR IN REVIEW: Asian Americans make groundbreaking, bankable achievements
January 1, 2014 By Ben Hamamoto, Nichi Be Weekly Columnist
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For Asian Americans, Yeoh, Quan’s Oscar wins are theirs too
LOS ANGELES — Edward Dion Fariñas watches the Academy Awards every year but the Filipino American didn’t expect to have such a visceral reaction when hearing Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh’s awards announced. “I had a squeal come out that I was not expecting,” said Fariñas, who was watching Sunday from his Austin, Texas, […]
Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga enters supervisor race
Longtime Mountain View Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga has more to give as she looks beyond serving in her city. Abe-Koga, 52, is the first to enter the race for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors District 5 seat. She announced her bid to replace incumbent Supervisor Joe Simitian at a Lunar New Year event hosted […]
San Francisco board open to reparations with $5M payouts
SAN FRANCISCO — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family. These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee […]
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THE HEART OF KANJI: Live in the moment, live in the now
By Rev. Masato Kawahatsu, Nichi Bei News Columnist
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Kurt Kitayama breaks through in wild finish at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against March 5 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “You can’t ignore it. You got to know where you’re at […]
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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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The ties that bind
MOUNTAIN MOVERS: Student Activism & The Emergence of Asian American Studies Edited by Russell Jeung, Karen Umemoto, Harvey Dong, Eric Mar, Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, Arnold Pan (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2019, 276 pp., $22, paperback) Those of us who are involved in Japanese American and Asian American Pacific Islander causes and organizations […]
‘We need to … protect the rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters’
June 21, 2018 By REV. HIROKO SUZUKI