By BILLIE LEE
Nichi Bei Times Correspondent

SAN JOSE -- The City of San Jose is finally moving its Maintenance Corporation Yard (commonly referred to as Corporation Yard) and parking lot to a new location, making way for a reported $100 million redevelopment opportunity in one of the country's last three remaining Japantowns.

By KATHY AOKI
Nichi Bei Times

For Ida Sakohira Kawaguchi becoming a cadet nurse during World War II was an opportunity she seized.

Kawaguchi admired the Nikkei nurses working in the Gila River, Arizona concentration camp and they inspired her to take classes to become a nurse aid. This job paid $16 a month and gave Kawaguchi the opportunity to experience seeing childbirth and various surgical procedures.

The 2006 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival announces that applications for their annual scholarship program for graduating seniors of Japanese descent in Northern California are available for those who qualify.

By BEN HAMAMOTO
Nichi Bei Times

Studio Ghibli is at work on a new film directed by a Miyazaki, but not the one you’d expect.

By KORI-KAI YOSHIDA
Nichi Bei Times

The Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program (JBBP) West, a public school founded by the Japanese American community more than 30 years ago to preserve the Japanese language and culture for their children, is among nearly two dozen schools awaiting the San Francisco Board of Education’s scheduled vote tonight about their future.