Never again! Are the words we all share and care for deeply.

sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland.she is the author of Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California.

1980-2020 (Temple University Press).After her award-winning first book on the transformation of ethnicity among Japanese Americans.author of Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community.

many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital.She also wrote and produced the documentary Asian America.

members of the Shin Issei community.

Shin Issei women tell stories of precarity.the renovated church was converted to become the Union Center for the Arts.

Giichi Tanaka was appointed as the first pastor of the church.it was hoped that a larger church with expanded programs could be created to better serve the community.

LTHS welcomes all members of the community and supporters of Little Tokyo to the 101st anniversary celebration of Japanese Union Church and the 25th anniversary of the Union Center for the Arts.and a building program was initiated.