Rafu: Any comments about the strike?Tomita: I am very proud to be a part of this union.

But the question is how and why does basketball provide identity and connections to/within the Japanese American community?Komai.a small group of concerned basketball leaders in Southern California formed the Nikkei Basketball Heritage Association with the intent of documenting and teaching the history of Japanese American community basketball and its connection to traditional Japanese cultural values.

It emphasizes the connections between organized basketball and traditional Japanese cultural values.Whereas the Issei and Nisei who pioneered the Nikkei leagues wanted to pass their traditional cultural values to their children and grandchildren.who wrote his masters thesis on The East Bay Japanese American Community: A Look at Community Culture.

government to leave their homes and businesses and were unfairly incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II.His mother Dori played for the Enchantees and his grandmother Helen played for the Arbees in the 1950s.

NBHA is also interested in teaching parents to be better coaches by developing a basketball curriculum.

Many of us developed lifelong friendships with our teammates and even our opponents.and interpreting the history of the World War II experiences of Japanese Americans and elevating the related social justice lessons that inform current issues today.

he is a consummate story teller who is passionately committed to telling the stories and preserving the history of Japanese Americans.whose lived experiences and personal testimonies have been the foundation of the pilgrimage movement and other efforts to memorialize the wartime incarceration.

they were forced to rebuild their lives in the outer suburbs of Ogden.He has also pursued a secondary career in academia that he started in 2012 as a part-time lecturer in Japan studies at Arcadia University.