Tsunoda Seeking Re-election to Aliso Viejo City Council
ALISO VIEJO — Aliso Viejo Mayor Phillip Tsunoda is seeking re-election to the City Council on Nov. 4. Tsunoda and City Councilmember Carmen Cave are the incumbents in a five-way race for two seats on...
View ArticleGo For Broke Announces Essay Contest Winners
Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC) has announced the winners of its 2014 High School and College Student Essay Contest. Thirteen students will share $6,000 in prize money, and the top 30...
View ArticleHORSE’S MOUTH: An Infielder Named Hiroyuki Nakajima
By GEORGE YOSHINAGA (Published Sept. 20, 2014) The hot weather these past few days rekindled memories of a period in my life when I had to live under a similar hot climate. That would be our first...
View ArticleDorsey Orchestra to Headline ‘Great Nisei Reunion’ Concert
Gerald Ishibashi of Stonebridge Entertainment has announced a concert event entitled “The Great Nisei Reunion,” to be held at The Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 16. The concert,...
View ArticleGardena Pioneer Project to Present Update on Affordable Care Act
GARDENA — On Sunday, Oct. 19, from 1 to 3 p.m. the Gardena Pioneer Project will present an educational seminar, “The Affordable Care Act in 2015: An Update on Obamacare,” at the Ken Nakaoka Community...
View ArticleThree Receive Nobel Prize in Physics for Invention of LED
STOCKHOLM — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 7 that it has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University and Nagoya University, Hiroshi...
View ArticleCROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: A Paean to Yesteryear: A Reunion in November
By W.T. WIMPY HIROTO [Reader Beware: What follows is pure nostalgia, sentimentality at its best — or worst. Perhaps this can help Sansei better understand their sometime vague and puzzling parents....
View ArticleOutstanding Citizens
Gary Yamauchi, then vice mayor and now mayor of Alhambra, and Carol Tanita of Monterey Park received the 2014 Outstanding Citizen Award from the Mighty Mission Amigos (MMA) District, San Gabriel Valley...
View Article南加日系婦人会：盛大に創立110周年祝う
１９０４年に「羅府婦人会」として発足した「南加日系婦人会」（猪瀬加代子会長、会員85人）は５日、創立１１０周年を記念した祝賀昼餐会を小東京で催した。会場には、日系社会をはじめ各界の代表者ら約１９０人が集まり、社会福祉、日米友好親善、日本文化の普及など、同会の長年にわたる意義ある奉仕活動に敬意を示した。...
View ArticleLTSC Seminars on ‘Navigating Transitions in Life’
GARDENA — A series of free educational workshops about “Navigating Transitions in Life” will be held on Saturdays, Oct. 11, Oct. 25, and Nov. 15, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Gardena Valley Japanese...
View ArticleSawtelle Reunion III Set for Oct. 19
Sawtelle Reunion III will take place Sunday, Oct. 19, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the West Los Angeles Buddhist Church Social Hall, 2003 Corinth Ave., Los Angeles. Attendees will remember the neighborhood’s...
View ArticleＬＡ市議： 最低賃金引き上げ案提出
ロサンゼルス市議のネリー・マルチネス、マイク・ボニン、ギル・セディーヨ、カレン・プライスの４氏は７日、同市の最低賃金を２０１７年までに時給１３・２５ドル、１９年までに１５・２５ドルに引き上げる提案を提出した。...
View ArticleA Wind from the West
By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS Rafu Sports Editor LONG BEACH.–There has been talk over the last few years about making a push — pun very much intended — for the inclusion of sumo in the Olympic Games. Once a...
View ArticleAAPI Elected Officials Show Their Support for Muratsuchi
By J.K. YAMAMOTO Rafu Staff Writer Current and former Asian American/Pacific Islander elected officials from around the state showed their support for Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) at his...
View ArticleOCHAZUKE: Sound and Music Two
By ICHIRO SHIMIZU It was an outrageous, thundering sound and I was holding on so as not to be blown away. It was Led Zeppelin’s first concert at the Budohkan in Tokyo, Sept. 23, 1971. The sound I was...
View ArticleTHROUGH THE FIRE: O Sleep! O Gentle Sleep!
By SHARON YAMATO As I was lying awake the other night obsessing about all the things I had to do and beating myself up for not sleeping, I wondered in my insomniac state whether I would ever go back to...
View ArticleINTO THE NEXT STAGE: Jeremy Lin Suits Up As a Laker
By GEORGE TOSHIO JOHNSTON Yes, that Freeway Series much-desired by denizens of Los Angeles and Orange counties has fallen apart like the bun of a soggy Dodger dog. While sad for baseball fans, it’s a...
View ArticleApplicants Sought for 2015 Cherry Blossom Queen
SAN FRANCISCO — The 2015 Northern California Cherry Blossom Queen Program Committee seeks enthusiastic, community-minded, young Nikkei women to participate in the 2015 Northern California Cherry...
View Article‘Path of Bodhidharma’ at USC Pacific Asia Museum
PASADENA — “Insight: The Path of Bodhidharma” is on view at the Focus Gallery of the USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave. in Pasadena, through Feb. 15, 2015. The exhibition explores the...
View ArticleMusician Raising Funds to Launch First EP
CHICAGO — The Entals, a group of rotating musicians under the artistic direction of composer Ori Kawa, is raising funds through Indiegogo to launch their first EP, “Cosmosis,” which “will showcase what...
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