January 2022
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My Sister’s House Treasures attracts visitors to Sacramento’s Japantown
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
An Asian-focused second-hand shop opened in Sacramento, Calif.’s Japantown in October, after a longtime Japanese gift store closed last summer. The domestic violence organization running the store hopes to support […] READ MORE
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Review: In ‘Belle,’ a dazzling anime ‘Beauty and the Beast’
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
Anime master Mamoru Hosoda makes movies that, even at their most elaborate, can reach such staggeringly emotional heights that they seem to break free of anything you’re prepared for in […] READ MORE
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Tokyo same-sex partnership plans highlight road ahead for LGBTQ rights
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Many welcomed Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike’s recent announcement that a same-sex partnership system would be introduced for all of Tokyo in fiscal 2022. But some LGBTQ activists have […] READ MORE
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Hercules: How anti-Asian racism proved deadly at the 19th century dynamite plant
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
Today’s ultra-heated political rhetoric, particularly regarding the coronavirus pandemic, has resulted in increasingly overt expressions of racism, and outright physical violence, toward the Bay Area’s Asian American community in the […] READ MORE
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Woman killed in subway shove at Times Square
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
NEW YORK — A woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station Jan. 15, police said, a little more than a […] READ MORE
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Olympians on leading ‘with a champion mind’
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
While training in Colorado Springs, Colo. as kids, Maia Shibutani and her brother, Alex, received eight-time Olympic medalist Apolo Ohno’s autograph on a McDonald’s bag. The two-time Olympic bronze medalists, […] READ MORE
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Harry Harumi Higaki
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
HIGAKI, HARRY, 101, of Hillsborough, CA, passed away peacefully in his home on December 16, 2021 with his children by his side. Born in San Francisco, CA on August 29, […] READ MORE
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Eiji Edward Kubokawa
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
KUBOKAWA, EIJI or ED as most people knew him, passed away peacefully in Bellevue, WA on December 21, 2021 at the age of 96. Eiji was born in San Francisco, […] READ MORE
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Mitsuko Kawashiri
January 20, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
KAWASHIRI, MITSUKO passed away peacefully on December 15, 2021 at home in Novato, California surrounded by family and Reverend Koshi Kurotaki of Sokoji Temple. The loss of Mitsuko is mourned […] READ MORE
