and perhaps even see a woman as the Japanese consul general one day in the future.

was a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.Of the 2 million Korean Americans

I spoke at four of those funerals.How many of us will pass with unfulfilled things that we wanted to do? Like Frank Sinatra sang in My Way.I noticed that I am attending more funerals than weddings or baby showers.

will you think about life after death? Will there be another place you go after this life? All societies have this in their cultures.Because I am involved in mankind.

where the weather resembles Las Vegas on a summer day.

This stage in my life is one of the passages.Yet the strong Issei spirit (makenai de) returned after the war.

It has been my pleasure and my life-line to serve alongside the many volunteers at Koreisha Little Tokyo Nutrition Services in Little Tokyo Towers.Volunteering has been a legacy learned from the Issei who first came to America and helped one another to survive and grow here.

They sing and play the shamisen that accompanies the kabuki play on stage.who arrived in America in 1899 at the age of 20.