called it a historic and vibrant neighborhood rooted in immigrant experience and grounded in the values of care and community.

but the familys environment was more shaped by a vague California Orientalism.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 abroadyou 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.whose best friend was an NSU member.

Rafu: Why did you get involved in founding the Nikkei Student Union?Albert: We just felt that having a group that represented the Japanese American community at UCLA was important.

a Japanese American student organization.interspersed her acceptance speech with passages sung from We Are the Children.

By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSSRAFU STAFF WRITERRarely has a two-word slogan on a T-shirt spoken so loudly.Oyama accepted her award with thanks to her husband and sons.

we are witnessing a danger ous rollback of civil rights.Photos by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu ShimpoToshizo Tom Watanabe reflected on his longtime friendship with Daniel Inouye (on screen).