2020
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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: To sous vide or not sous vide
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
Sous vide refers to that precise cooking application where food is placed in a vacuum-sealed bag, and then let to slow cook in a water bath not unlike that commercial […] READ MORE
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Her parents survived a bombing and an incarceration camp. Now she’s their caregiver. In San Jose’s Japantown, June Yasuhara learns more about her parents’ dementia daily
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
June Yasuhara, 55, suffered bouts of severe anxiety all her life. During a major episode, she couldn’t even mail a letter. “You don’t feel you are capable of anything,” she […] READ MORE
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Nikkei’s search for blood stem cell donor hampered by the pandemic
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
Kazumi Schmidgall enjoys playing the piano, hiking and kickboxing. The Shin-Issei high school math teacher had such an active and healthy life, she could hardly believe it when she was […] READ MORE
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A life lesson from John Lennon, in Japantown
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
Sadness and sorrow. Dec. 8 was the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Here’s my story on meeting him: I was a young teen in the summer of 1973, hanging […] READ MORE
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Rose Ochi, who shattered glass ceilings, dies
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
Takayo Rose Matsui Ochi, attorney, civil rights activist and political strategist who shattered numerous glass ceilings, such as becoming the first Asian American woman commissioner on the Los Angeles Police […] READ MORE
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Police: Couple flew to Hawai‘i despite positive virus tests
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
HONOLULU (AP) — A couple were arrested at a Hawai‘i airport after traveling from the U.S. mainland despite knowing they were infected with COVID-19, authorities said. Wesley Moribe, 41, and […] READ MORE
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Biden picks Tai as top trade envoy
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Katherine Tai to be the top U.S. trade envoy, he announced on Dec. 11. Tai, who is chief trade counsel for the House […] READ MORE
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Chinese Americans who served in WWII honored by Congress
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy-five years after World War II ended, Congress is honoring thousands of Chinese Americans who served the United States in the war, earning citations for heroism — […] READ MORE
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Mitsue Ono
December 17, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
ONO, MITSUE, loving wife, mother and grandmother passed away peacefully on Dec 5, 2020 in San Francisco. She was born in San Francisco and raised in Odawara, Japan. Mitsue returned […] READ MORE
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The Story of Japanese American Food: Evolution by adaptation
December 3, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
The Japanese American National Museum wants to make you hungry. JANM held the first of three virtual programs on Japanese American food, “A Taste of Home: Building the Flavors of […] READ MORE
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