the family moved to San Francisco’s Nihonmachi so that Edison could pursue law school.

They also decided to end their sponsorship with their last queen in 1982.Judean Karimoto Sakimoto (1980).

Hamano asked: Why doesnt Orange County have a queens reunion?With no contact information for many of the early queens.Many of the younger queens did not know the background history that Mary Murai Nakayama was the first Miss Orange County Queen to run in 1958 representing the Kazuo Masuda Memorial VFW Post 3670.Stephanie Iwamasa Ichinose (1994).

1957 and they had not celebrated their first-year anniversary.including 11 Nisei Week Queens.

which made the event more special and meaningful to each of us.

Emcees Megan Ono (2016) and Kaitlin Hara (2017).Tai thanked Kamikawa for the government of Japans support for the U.

-Japan Partnership on Trade as a key forum to address bilateral trade issues.which will hold its next meeting in Washington.

She particularly complimented Japan for its outreach to include additional countries during the ministerial sessions.Tai and Nishimura discussed the World Trade Organization and the upcoming 13th Ministerial Conference.