Based upon my advocacy for Alison.

Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of The Rafu Shimpo.He can be reached at paperson52@gmail.

Each period represented various ages … the age of the dinosaurs or the age when homo sapiens appeared.Not everyone may share that goal … some hope to amass as much material wealth as possible.But what if you knew that date? What if you knew you only had three months to live? It would be like an episode of The Twilight Zone!How would you spend those last three months?Would you start checking items off a bucket list.

But whatever your goal in life.That flicker represented the time of an average life span.

do as John Wooden used to say.

These are observations that may not be really new to many of the older readers of The Rafu Shimpo.Dave Cortese to launch the California-Japan Legislative Forum.

archery demonstrator (name unavailable).attended by representatives from the Japan Society of Northern California.

Consul General Yo Osumi from the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco.and fostering innovation between the worlds third- and fifth-largest economies.