Rising Stars has brought me an entire community of incredible people that I have been so lucky to have met and gotten really close with over the past five months.

really a thought I could not even fathom and never imagined.The Ohtani effect on Little Tokyo is as big and profound as that $700 million contract.

His empathy and dedication is what makes him such a great photographer and why the community embraced this tall Mexican American as an essential part of Little Tokyo and the JA community.As a Japanese American it is interesting to see the intersection between the Japanese and Nikkei communities playing out in Little Tokyo.=*=Im sure Mario is proud of the work that Jun Nagata and Michael Hirano Culross have been putting in covering Shohei Ohtanis first season as a Dodger.

The fact that Ippei would be disloyal to Shohei was.Nisei Week is another place where Mario built a legacy.

Talking with him it is comforting to know that he is in a good place.

Imagine all the visitors that will want to come and take a selfie by the mural or grab some ramen before or after the game.Due to the success of that performance.

but it is notable to remember that he was discovered right here in Little Tokyo!Later in life.Wanting to make movies that he thought more accurately portrayed the real Japanese character.

He actually worked menial odd jobs for a while as a starving young actor when he performed his first major acting role – the lead in a stage adaptation of Kenjiro Tokutomis 1898 novel The Cuckoo (Hototogisu).which performed in Japanese communities up and down the West Coast.