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LOS ANGELES — Little Tokyo, located in downtown Los Angeles, has always been a go-to for great food, day trips and of course, gift shopping. The historic district boasts an […] READ MORE
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By ED KOMENDA and LINDSEY WASSONAssociated Press JEROME, Idaho — Behind the barbed wire, the little boy pressed his ink-covered index finger onto the mint-green exit card. And a photograph […] READ MORE
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“Please tell the U.S. to broker a ceasefire to stop this massacre of children. A friend told me that the more than 3,000 innocent dead Palestinian children are in a […] READ MORE
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“My brother’s wounds will eventually heal, but the trauma will remain for a very long time.” – Arfat Yafai, brother of Khalid Yafai,who remains on a ventilator in the ICU […] READ MORE
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Daisaku Ikeda, the longtime leader of the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, one of the largest religious groups in Japan, and founder of Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of […] READ MORE
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By TERRY TANG and LINLEY SANDERSAssociated Press Despite ongoing advocacy and legislation to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, about a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders […] READ MORE
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A new audio tour tells the history of San Francisco’s Japantown, focusing on the resettlement period after the war, when Japanese Americans returned to find Black Americans had moved into […] READ MORE
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TOKYO (Kyodo) — Prominent Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke admitted Oct. 20 to helping his parents to end their lives with sleeping drugs in May, in a suspected family suicide pact […] READ MORE
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Though several months delayed from Fred Korematsu’s birthday on Jan. 30, the Fred T. Korematsu Institute held its annual celebration Oct. 21 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, commemorating […] READ MORE
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A hit-and-run collision that injured an Arab Muslim student is being investigated as a potential hate crime by the California Highway Patrol, the Stanford University Department of Public Safety said […] READ MORE