INSIDE our NEW YEAR’S EDITION…

 

• THE 1800TH BATTALION: The Untold Story of Resisters Within the Military During WWII

by Martha Nakagawa

 

SPECIAL SECTION: Preserving California’s Japantowns

• VIEW FROM LA: Angelenos Feel Anxious about Little Tokyo’s Future by Takeshi Nakayama

• Remembering Sawtelle’s Japantown by Jill Shiraki

• Discovering Pre-WWII Japantowns in the East Bay by Donna Graves

• Kawashimo: A Rural Japantown in the Sacramento Delta by Barbara Takei

• PIECING TOGETHER THE PAST: Preservation of Lodi’s Historic Japantown Gains Interest by Lisa Masai

 

 

• Hiro’s Golf Shop and Soko Hardware in San Jose’s Japantown to close by Billie Lee

• Xperience! Offers Middle School Students the Opportunity to Develop Skills for Success by Kathy Aoki

 

SPECIAL SECTION: Nikkei Youth Voices

• Howard University Law School student Brandon Mita, UC Berkeley Yonsei Sally Kikuchi and Gay UC Berkeley student Lyell Sakaue

 

• Margaret Fujioka Hopes to Become First Nikkei on Piedmont City Council by Kathy Aoki

 

FOOD

• Sow Those Wild Oats, and Farro, and Buckwheat… by The Gochiso Gourmet (Ryan Tatsumoto)

• Pastry Chef Pursues Her Sweet Talents at SF’s Ame Restaurant by Kathy Aoki

• Oto’s Marketplace: Sacramento’s Japanese Superstore by Lisa Masai

 

ENTERTAINMENT

• HOVERING OVER HOMER: The Simpsons’ JA — and Japantown — Connection by Ben Hamamoto

• Sundance Kabuki Theatres Re-Opens by Ben Hamamoto

• Violinist Aiso Performs Music From His Heart by Kathy Aoki

 

BOOK REVIEW SECTION

• Immedium Books: Inspiring a World of Imagination by April Elkjer

Reviews of:

• JULIE BLACK BELT and YEAR OF THE RAT by Oliver Chin

• HELLO MAGGIE by Shigeru Yabu and Willie Ito

• FIGHTING SPIRIT: JUDO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1930-1941 by Ansho Mas Uchima and Larry Akira Kobayashi

• The Power of Two: A Twin Triumph over Cystic Fibrosis by Isabel Stenzel Byrnes/Anabel Stenzel

• Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman by Sumie Kawakami

• American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in WWII by Eric L. Muller

• SAWTELLE: WEST LOS ANGELES’S JAPANTOWN by Jack Fujimoto

• ANGEL ISLAND: IMAGES OF AMERICA by Branwell Fanning and William Wong

• SAN FRANCISCO’S INTERNATIONAL HOTEL: MOBILIZING THE FILIPINO AMERICA COMMUNNITY IN THE ANTI-EVICTION MOVEMENT by Estella Habal

• MISMATCH by Lensey Namioka

• Musicians from a Different Shore: ASIANS AND ASIAN AMERICANS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC by Mari Yoshihara

 

SPORTS

• Wat Misaka: The First Person of Color to Play Pro Basketball by Greg Robinson

• Passing it On: Basketball Lessons by Lindsey Yamasaki

 

PERSPECTIVES

• Columnists Fred Oshima, Two Japanee Bruddahs (Keith Kamisugi and Kyle Tatsumoto), Annie Kim Tomita Noguchi and Jeff Asai,

 

Photomania! Amateur Photo Contest results

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