July 2015
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OBITUARY: Kayoko Sato
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
SATO, KAYOKO, 76, a longtime resident of San Francisco, CA, passed away at her home on July 10, 2015. She was very well known as Masazuka Sato, a koto master, […] READ MORE
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Mikawaya, Little Tokyo manju-ya and creator of mochi ice cream, sold
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — Mikawaya, the iconic 105-year-old Japanese confectionary maker known for creating the popular Mochi Ice Cream, has been sold to a private equity firm, Century Park Capital Partners. […] READ MORE
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‘Urban Samurai’: One atomic bomb survivor’s journey to forgiveness
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
At the age of 8, Takashi Thomas Tanemori lost most of his family in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. His mother and his 14-month-old sister were never found. His eldest […] READ MORE
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San Jose Japantown ‘stand(s)on giants’ shoulders
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
SAN JOSE JAPANTOWN: A JOURNEY By Curt Fukuda and Ralph M. Pearce (San Jose: Japanese American Museum of San Jose, 2014, 470 pp., $65.25, hardcover) While perusing this beautiful and […] READ MORE
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‘Powerful’ telling of U.S. camp history
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
INFAMY: THE SHOCKING STORY OF THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT IN WORLD WAR II By Richard Reeves (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2015, 368 pp., $32, hardcover, $18, paperback, $16.99, e-book) […] READ MORE
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‘Consequential’ and ‘transformative’ study of Crystal City’s WWII incarceration
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
THE TRAIN TO CRYSTAL CITY: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp during World War II By Jan Jarboe Russell (New York: Scribner, 2015, 416 pp., […] READ MORE
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‘Mashi’ Murakami’s ‘meteoric rise’ in Japan and the U.S. in the mid-century
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
MASHI: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer By Robert Fitts (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2015, 256 pp., $28.95, hardcover) The San Francisco […] READ MORE
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Looking onward from the year of infamy
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Accomplished jazz musician and composer Anthony Brown will debut his “life’s work to date” in remembrance of both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear disaster in […] READ MORE
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A taste of home
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
JAPANESE SOUL COOKING: RAMEN, TONKATSU, TEMPURA, AND MORE FROM THE STREETS AND KITCHENS OF TOKYO AND BEYOND By Tadashi Ono and Harris Salat (Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2013, 256 […] READ MORE
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Comfort food, Hawai‘i-style
July 23, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
FROM KAU KAU TO CUISINE: AN ISLAND COOKBOOK, THEN AND NOW By Arnold Hiura; featuring Derek Kurisu and Jason Takemura (Honolulu: Watermark Publishing, 2013, 196 pp., $29.95, hardcover) “From Kau […] READ MORE
