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A brief history of Japanese American basketball in the Bay Area
First QuarterUnlike baseball, which was introduced to Japan by the United States in 1873 and played by the immigrant Issei, Japanese American basketball was a predominantly Nisei sport and truly a Japanese American phenomenon. Basketball in the Japanese American community started gaining popularity in the 1920s with recreational teams forming wherever there were significant numbers […]
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
Injustices of the WWII incarceration, as told to kids
THE CAT WHO CHOSE TO DREAM By Loriene Honda; artwork by Jimmy Mirikitani (Dixon, Calif.: Martin Pearl Publishing, 2014, 40 pp; $17.99; hardcover) Jimmy Mirikitani’s art is luminous in Loriene Honda’s remarkable book, “The Cat Who Chose to Dream.” Our young hero, Jimmy the cat, lives in a prison camp with his Japanese American family. […]
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