The Great Unknown & the Unknown Great

By GREG ROBINSON
Nichi Bei Times Contributor

One element that makes American democracy so distinctive is the power our system grants judges. The courts, from the local level up to the United States Supreme Court, enjoy great authority to interpret the Constitution and to overturn laws they deem unconstitutional.

Nichi Bei Times Report

Japanese American astronaut Dan Tani will make his second trip to the International Space Station on the STS-120 mission slated to launch Oct. 23 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

New Book Brings Little-Known Story of Nisei Resistance to Japanese Readers

By KENJI G. TAGUMA
Nichi Bei Times

For some 50 years, the story of Nisei draft resisters was virtually written out of popular Japanese American history texts, which overlooked the group of young men who refused to be drafted for military service while they and their families were imprisoned behind barbed wire in wartime concentration camps.

By HIROSHI FUKUDA

This is a report on the Japantown Better Neighborhoods Plan focus group meetings I have attended. One of the first things the city planners said was, "We know you want more housing in Japantown." My thought was, "Says who?" The Planning Department, the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, Spur, Transit First, and the Bicycle Coalition, that's who.

They have BIG plans for Japantown and the rest of the City. They want to increase the City population to 1,000,000.

By APRIL ELKJER
Nichi Bei Times

October is the time of year to get into the "spirit" of things � and how better than to walk the walk on the Chinatown Ghost Tour?

Gathering inspiration from New Orleans ghost tours and her own mother's spirit stories, fourth-generation Chinatown resident Cynthia Yee decided it was time for some fun in our own backyard.

HE GOT GAMES

By KENT WONG
Nichi Bei Times Columnist

MLB 07: THE SHOW

MLB 07 offers solid baseball gaming with a fun career mode and new interesting mechanics. It is a title that sticks to its formula. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

By APRIL ELKJER
Nichi Bei Times

We have all heard of Zen and tea but what about Zen and fish? Wabi Sabi is the Japanese Zen art of finding beauty in the imperfections and simplicity found in nature and has been applied to haiku poetry and the Japanese tea ceremony but perhaps for the first time to the underwater realm of aquaria.