February 2015
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ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: A ‘Fresh’ take on the Asian American sitcom
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
“Fresh off the Boat,” the first sitcom with an all-Asian American cast since 1994’s “All American Girl,” is kind of like rocking a perm or making a martini, in that […] READ MORE
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CAAMFest 2015 lineup unveiled
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
The Center for Asian American Media will host its 33rd annual CAAMFest in three San Francisco Bay Area cities from Thursday, March 12 to Sunday, March 22. Masashi Niwano, festival […] READ MORE
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SELMA: Some personal reflections and recollections
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
I found it refreshing, the movie “Selma,” which recounted the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and thru a black lens. Not surprisingly, it met with some criticism from critics, […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Utako Mary Narahara
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
NARAHARA, UTAKO MARY, 91, born August 06, 1923 passed away January 26, 2015. Preceded in death by her husband, Minoru Narahara who passed away January 24, 2011. She is survived […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Alice Yuriko Enomoto Oku
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
OKU, ALICE YURIKO ENOMOTO, 99, of Los Altos, Calif. passed away on February 9, 2015 at El Camino Hospital surrounded by her loved ones. She was preceded in death by […] READ MORE
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Suyama Project seeks stories of WWII protests
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — United States residents of Japanese ancestry, who reportedly endured without protest the forced relocation from their West Coast homes and incarceration in U.S.-style concentration camps after Japan’s […] READ MORE
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Former radio announcer June-ko Nakagawa receives kunsho
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
June-ko Nakagawa received The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays at the residence of the Consul General of Japan in San Francisco Masato Watanabe Feb. 10, in […] READ MORE
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Same-sex couples to be recognized under plan by Tokyo’s Shibuya ward
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward plans to issue certificates recognizing same-sex couples as being in “relationships equivalent to marriage,” becoming the first local government in Japan to do so. The […] READ MORE
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Tofu company agrees to injunction requiring it to cease operations until it improves sanitation
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
The owners of a San Francisco tofu company agreed in a consent decree filed in federal court Feb. 10 to cease operations until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determines […] READ MORE
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Yee pleads not guilty to revised indictment with new charges
February 19, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Former state Sen. Leland Yee pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Francisco Feb. 5 to a revised indictment that adds two money-laundering conspiracy counts to existing charges of […] READ MORE
