She was a finalist for the Macavity Award for Best First Novel for Summer of the Big Bachi in 2005 and the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel for Hiroshima Boy in 2019.

Aratani was the first Japanese American woman to be recognized by the Japanese government.Sawada found that Aratani had fulfilled her request beyond what she anticipated.

In her leisure time she enjoyed chigiri-e.Sakaye ArataniPublished April 4.where her parents were in the nursery business.

She said her secret to a happy long life was that she was a grateful person.the elegant matriarch of the Aratani family.

Links to donate to these organizations from her guest book page: https://www.

A walk through Little Tokyo will include cornerstone institutions that were supported by George and Sakaye Aratani and have been named in their honor.to do all the landscaping and so forth.

explaining the history of the lantern.921-pound lantern stands at the Shimizugumi Stone Works Company in Japan before being shipped to the Dodgers in the winter of 1965.

The inscription on its base (below) reads in Japanese.the entire project had been all but forgotten.