A controversial art exhibit at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum has drawn criticism from the Korean American community that feels its history is misrepresented by Japan and West.

By Peter Schurmann
New America Media

The Korean king kneels, hands clasped in a gesture of submission. Above him looms the Japanese empress, at the head of an armada and clad in full samurai armor with sword outstretched. His armies defeated and his lands occupied, the king swears his country’s eternal loyalty to the Japanese throne.

Nichi Bei Times Report

LOS ANGELES — Little Tokyo community leaders, stunned by the recent sale of the 21-story, 434-room New Otani Hotel as well as the Weller Court commercial shopping complex to 3D Investments, have started to meet about the recently finalized sales.

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SACRAMENTO — A project to help preserve the historic Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony site in the El Dorado Hills — the first sizeable settlement of Japanese immigrants in America — has been earmarked for funding in the amount of $483,750 by the California Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE).

In this Nichi Bei Times exclusive series, Dr. Greg Robinson, author of "By the Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans," examines little-known but prominent figures in Japanese American history.

By GREG ROBINSON
Nichi Bei Times Contributor

The young Nisei who came of age in 1930s America included a share of nonconformists — individuals who lived outside Japanese neighborhoods, expressed interest in larger social and political questions, and challenged established community leadership.

By BEN HAMAMOTO
Nichi Bei Times

"I’m just a farm boy from Nebraska."

Such words seem quaint to most today, perhaps na�ve or even disingenuous to others. But when they come out of Ben Kuroki’s mouth, they are powerful, almost heartbreaking. Fueled by love for his friends and his country (and a tragically strong sense of racial self-loathing) his biography claims the Nisei pilot was the only American to fight the Axis in four major theaters during World War II.

By BEN HAMAMOTO
Nichi Bei Times

Masayuki Imai has been bringing his dramatic time-travelling kamikaze comedy "The Winds of God" to audiences in different incarnations for the past two decades. The veteran Japanese actor, known largely for his roles in yakuza films, developed a passionate interest in the pilots and their tales which has led him to write a play, and make both a Japanese and English language films on a subject he feels not enough people are familiar with.

Veteran Disappointed With JACL’s Watada Resolution

In response to “JACL Passes Watada Resolution,” from the Nichi Bei Times Weekly August 23, 2007

I am deeply disappointed with the recent National JACL Board Resolution concerning Lt. Watada. Again, the National JACL has ignored the views of the Nisei Veterans of Foreign Wars.