January 2021
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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: A simple bowl of rice
January 25, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
We don’t consume rice like we used to, and it’s not because we’re into the whole low-carb diet, because neither of us subscribes to it. It’s simply because I tend […] READ MORE
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‘CAMPU’ STORIES: Lesser-known aspects of WWII incarceration captured in podcast
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
For Japanese Americans who lived through America’s concentration camps, the one thing many Issei and Nisei survivors shared in common after camp was silence. “They didn’t talk about camp,” is […] READ MORE
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Sawtelle’s Japantown businesses negatively impacted by the pandemic
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Sawtelle’s Japanese American coommunity, which thrived in both the prewar and postwar periods as a majority-Nikkei West Los Angeles neighborhood, has now seen many of its businesses suffer financial losses […] READ MORE
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Adapting with an Olympian’s mindset
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Having made the decision to retire after the 2010 Winter Olympics at 28 years old, Apolo Anton Ohno did not know what he was going to do next. More than […] READ MORE
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Japanese American Sen. Inouye to be remembered in ancestral home
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
The city government of Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to establish the monument to Inouye in a park planted with dogwood trees sent to Japan as a gift from the […] READ MORE
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Councilman calls for downtown Los Angeles intersection to be named Rose Ochi Square
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — City Councilman Kevin de Leon introduced a motion Jan. 13 to name a downtown intersection after Takayo “Rose” Matsui Ochi, a civil rights activist, attorney and the […] READ MORE
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Kamei elected mayor of Mountain View
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Ellen Kamei, who was elected to the Mountain View City Council in 2018 and served as vice mayor to Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga in 2020, was elected by her colleagues to […] READ MORE
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Kevin E. Nagata
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
April 5, 1959 – Jan. 3, 2021 After a valiant four-year battle with cancer, NAGATA, KEVIN passed away at home surrounded by his family on January 3, 2021 after watching […] READ MORE
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VP Harris: A new chapter opens in U.S. politics
January 21, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier Jan. 20 that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries when she took […] READ MORE
