After assisting with the cleanup.

and relocated around the corner from its original location on Weller Street (now Ellison Onizuka Street) to its current spot on First Streetand relocated around the corner from its original location on Weller Street (now Ellison Onizuka Street) to its current spot on First Street.

and gift and souvenir shops around Little Tokyo shutteredThis weekends Koshien final can be watched at the official tournament website.much in the way we follow March Madness in college basketball stateside.

Daisuke Matsuzaka (being congratulated by Tommy Lasorda) was a national hero in Japan after pitching Yokohama High School to the 1998 Koshien title.Photo by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSSYears before he was a Major League Baseball star and the 2006 World Baseball Classic MVP.

Folks from large cities and small towns across the country have been glued to it.

Yuki Saito was the pitching star of the 2006 tournament.If you wanted to see cool movies

If you wanted to see cool movies.he spent five years in Asagaya haunting theaters and watching films that were then inaccessible abroad

you know?Rafu: What was the purpose of the NSU when you founded it?Ken: In terms of trying to identify what our initial foundational purposes were.There was so much going on in terms of Asian American and Japanese American organizational development.