highlighted in the exhibition Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai‘i in 2010.

and what is coming is almost certainly a sudden and jarring reshaping of a community that I and so many have long embraced as a comfortable constant.Nurseries and small mom-and-pop stores were among the small businesses that popped up – some remain.

I was part of a generation that attended the highly progressive Washington Center Alternative School.Elizabeths Sunday School was short-lived.I came across a crew from Pacific Gas and Electric that had traveled from Northern California to assist with the daunting task of restoring electrical infrastructure.

so we decided to go back to Chicago.There are so many to tell that it feels impossible to know where to start.

when Japanese families were incarcerated during World War II.

in the south near Victory Park.except being accused as sexual abusers.

During the 1930s and 1940s there was an individual spouting lies and hatred.By Mary Uyematsu KaoPeople might remember him as one of them baad cats from the Westside in the 60s — someone you did not want to mess with no matter how good a fighter you thought you were.

People might remember him as one of the founders of the Yellow Brotherhood (YB) — created to stop the gang fighting and drugs that were killing our Sansei youth in the Japanese community in the 60s and 70s.in front of millions of viewers.