J-TOWN BEAT: The Importance of Supermarkets
By GWEN MURANAKA In Gardena, besides having some of the best down-home Japanese food in…
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THE WARREN REPORT: All I Really Need to Know…
By WARREN FURUTANI After picking up Harlee, my granddaughter, she recounted what she had learned…
VOX POPULI: Let’s Hear It for Death in the Pacific
By GRANT UJIFUSA (The following is a response to a resolution, passed at the recent…
RAMBLINGS FROM THE SON OF A PAPER SON: The Live Oak Park Tennis Crew
By BILL YEE In his later years, my father-in-law Lew Abe would routinely say to…
THROUGH THE FIRE: Zatoichi – The Blind Swordsman
By BILL WATANABE I’ve always liked Zatoichi movies. When I retired from the Little Tokyo…
J-TOWN BEAT: A Thoughtful Warrior for Little Tokyo
By GWEN MURANAKA Our thoughts and prayers here at The Rafu are with the family, friends…
SENIOR MOMENTS: Reflections About My Dad, Phil Shigekuni, After His 85th Birthday: Intergenerational Pain and Wisdom
By LAURIE SHIGEKUNI, Guest Columnist For the faithful readers of Phil Shigekuni’s column: thank you.…
THE WARREN REPORT: JA Vets
By WARREN FURUTANI By the title of this column you might assume I’m writing about…
Higashi Honganji’s Downtown Women’s Center Project
By REV. PETER HATA Like most of our temple members, and most of the tourists…
THROUGH THE FIRE: The Dean of Community Service
By BILL WATANABE With the recent passing of Dean Matsubayashi, the executive director of the…
THROUGH THE FIRE: The Greatness of Mitsuye Yamada
By SHARON YAMATO A wise man once said that to achieve greatness, one should live…
VOX POPULI: No More Concentration Camps — Never Again Is Now!
By JUNE HIBINO In 1942, Japanese American children, along with their families, were taken away…