2009
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Asian Grandparents Volunteering at Preschools
December 24, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
At Lotus Preschool located in San Jose’s Japantown, one of the senior volunteers, Kay Park, is teaching Japanese songs to the children. Park is 75 years old. She began volunteering […] READ MORE
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Government of Japan Honors Columbia Professor Takamura
December 24, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
NEW YORK — Professor Jeanette C. Takamura, dean of the Columbia University School of Social Work, has been honored with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck […] READ MORE
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My Life as a Crusader
December 24, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
I am Ruth Shigeko Ishizaki (formerly Hirose) and I was born and raised on our family’s 80 acres of orange groves in Richgrove, California in the southern San Joaquin Valley, […] READ MORE
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San Leandro School to Be Named for Civil Rights Icon Fred Korematsu
December 24, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — San Leandro High School’s new freshman campus will be named after the late Fred T. Korematsu — who challenged orders to go to a World War […] READ MORE
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‘One Piece’ Manga Enjoys Unprecedented Popularity
December 17, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
TOKYO — The popularity of a manga comic titled “One Piece” remains unceasing with the circulation of the latest 56th volume put on sale this month totaling 2.85 million copies, […] READ MORE
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Students Help Families in Honduras Rebuild Lives
December 17, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
Shin Fujiyama will never forget an impoverished 10-year old girl named Juli Marroquin Rodas, whom he first met in the Honduran village of El Progreso in 2005 while volunteering with […] READ MORE
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UC Berkeley’s Honorary Degree Ceremony a Time to Reflect
December 17, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
For most of the approximately 400 students who participated in the University of California Berkeley’s Dec. 13 winter graduation ceremony, the day represented the beginning of an exciting future as […] READ MORE
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YAKYU BY THE NUMBERS: Good-bye Gotham, Hello LaLaLand
December 17, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
Hideki Matsui and his World Series MVP trophy have left the Big Apple for the City of Angels to become, well, an Angel. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim signed […] READ MORE
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Forum Examines Death and Rebirth of JA Press
December 10, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
A few dozen community members gathered at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) in San Francisco’s Japantown on Dec. 6 to discuss the state of the […] READ MORE
