Sydney was very focused on her work and also creating a very natural chemistry with Maia.

worked with Mitsuru proprietor Mamoru Hanamure to develop an anime pop-up café in Mitsurus space.Courtesy Mike Murase During the pandemic.

Mexicans and Americans all enjoying his food and the history of the Little Tokyo.Mamoru also was one of the early patrol volunteers.You even honored my in-laws by hanging their swordfish on your wall.

He has shared many stories with me about the hardships faced by pioneers in building and nurturing the Little Tokyo community.Wednesday lunches with the JANM volunteers … so many wonderful moments that I will hold close to my heart.

— Mamoru and Dora Hanamure and staff membersMemories of MitsuruIve known Mamoru since the late 80s.

but Im sure now Mamoru and I can have some time to go fishing now.and a panel of filmmakers treated us to a discussion of this historically groundbreaking but little-known time period.

Narration introducing each time period and set gave us the historical context and little-known stories of what it was like.author of Landscapes of Beauty and Plunder: Japanese American Flower Growers and an Elite Public Garden in Suburban Los Angeles.

Photo by WENDY NAGATANIYellow Brotherhood founders (from left): Art Ishii.She flagged me down and showed me the Rafu article that I wrote about Gary.