Sophie Horiuchi-Forrester walks through the Yu-Ai Kai senior services center in San Jose’s Japantown, enthusiastically greeting fellow staff members and seniors in both English and Japanese. It’s clear that she has a knack for connecting with people. This skill has come in handy for Horiuchi-Forrester, who was named the executive director of Yu-Ai Kai in […]
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Support a ‘Living’ Legacy of Japanese American Culture (Part 2)
October 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The 1830 Sutter Street building is one of the few and most long-lasting of great Japanese American works destined to convey some knowledge of us to remote posterity. It is not a shrine, not a pagoda, not a garden, and not a bridge. Nor is it a museum or an historical organization looking backward at […]
Support a ‘Living’ Legacy of Japanese American Culture (Part 1)
September 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Established in 1975, Nihonmachi Little Friends (NLF) is a bilingual, multicultural childcare organization located in San Francisco’s Japantown. In 2002, NLF launched the Issei Women’s Legacy Project – a $2.2 million capital campaign to fund the purchase and renovation of the historic 1830 Sutter Street building. Completed in 1932, it was originally built as the […]
A-Bomb Survivors in America Examined by Hiroshima Doctors
September 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) — Atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now living in North America, received health checks from a group of Japanese doctors Sept. 19 at a suburban Los Angeles hospital. The medical delegation, consisting of physicians and administrative personnel commissioned by the Japanese government and Hiroshima prefectural government, conducted medical exams including interviews, […]
Japantown Plan Moving Forward Slowly: Community Members Have “Second Chance” to Make Their Voices Heard
September 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Community members still have a chance to influence the fate of the Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan (BNP), which, once adopted, will govern how San Francisco’s Japantown will develop over the next several decades. Since property owners have postponed development due to the economic crisis and lack of city funding has slowed the planning process, community […]
The Nichi Bei as a Gateway to Community
September 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
When I first started writing for YO! Youth Outlook in 2004, I had no idea it would bring me closer to the Japanese American community. The subject matter, mostly stories of the lives of Asian American refugees, didn’t strike me as something the community would be interested in. I grew up both inside and outside […]
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