courtesy of ABC/Kelsey McNeal

By APRIL ELKJER
Nichi Bei Times

Olympic Gold medalist and World Champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi has done it again as she continues to deliver high performance athleticism and entertainment on a national stage. After 16 years of retirement from competition, she's transformed from ice maiden to a dancing queen with help from dance partner and British juvenile ballroom and Latin American dance champ — Mark Ballas Jr. on ABC's popular primetime reality show "Dancing with the Stars (DWTS)."

Walt and Mildred Woodward
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By DOUGLAS CRIST
Bainbridge Island Review

Seldom is history written overnight.

An exception rolled off the typewriter of an unknown newspaper editor in the wee hours between Dec. 7-8, 1941, on an island in the middle of Puget Sound.

With eight words — "These Japanese Americans of ours haven't bombed anybody" — tapped out during production of an "Extra" edition of the Bainbridge Island Review, Walt Woodward wrote himself into the annals of American civil rights.

Walt and Mildred Woodward
courtesy of Anthro Studies Center

By KRISTEN SATO
Nichi Bei Times Contributor

March has proved to be an eventful month for San Jose's Japantown. Part of the reason can be credited to the city's redevelopment of the "Corporation Yard," or "Corp Yard." Located between 6^th and 7^th, Taylor and Jackson Streets, the Corp Yard used to be home to San Jose's third Chinatown, formerly known as Heinlenville.

Dear Editor,

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a black pastor in one of the mainline Christian churches, made headlines when television chose to show snippets of his sermons. The response from the general public was "oh, another angry raving black man." Being a fellow clergyman, Rev. Wright helped me to reflect on the role of anger in the ministry. I believe anger has a place in religion and religious people have legitimate reason to rave....

(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) Glen Fukushima, Asa Hanamoto, Ronald Takaki and Jim Hirabayashi.
photos by Kenji G. Taguma/Nichi Bei Times

By FRED OSHIMA
Nichi Bei Times Columnist

Some 300 members and friends of the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) of San Francisco filled the Hotel Kabuki's (formerly Miyako) ballroom March 22 for their annual awards dinner.

By KETAKI GOKHALE
New America Media

National health care studies often treat Asian Americans as a homogenous, and largely healthy group, but a new study analyzing three years of government-compiled data has revealed substantial pockets of poor health and low insurance levels within the population. Korean Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders clock in with lower levels of insurance than African Americans and whites....

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) — Japanese police decided April 2 to arrest a 22-year-old U.S. Navy sailor Thursday on suspicion of murdering and robbing a Japanese taxi driver last month in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, police sources said...

courtesy of Kota Morikawa

By KOTA MORIKAWA
Nichi Bei Times

One of the great gifts of living in the Bay Area is being able to take advantage of the health-conscious lifestyle. In the Japanese way, cooking okonomiyaki can be enjoyable for many of us...

By BEN HAMAMOTO
Nichi Bei Times

A couple years ago, Adam Corolla got in some trouble for mocking the Asian Excellence Awards with a hearty round of "ching chang chongs."

By the KAERU KID
Nichi Bei Times Columnist

Sometimes the Las Vegas tidbit is just inadequate to describe what is going on in this city that never sleeps. With the value of the dollar declining world wide, Las Vegas is the best vacation value as long as you do not lose your head gambling. On a trip to Vegas, you can say you went to Egypt by visiting Luxor; New York, New York; Venice, Italy; the Lake area of Italy at Bellagio; Paris; Rio; Camelot at Excalibur, etc. and for a fraction of the price to go to just one of them...