president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California.

the Japanese Institute of Sawtelle has become the meeting ground where shin Nisei are learning more about JA history.This population of shin Issei women far exceeded numbers of men by more than three to one.

these womens lives are complicated with expectations to accept 2nd class citizenship by larger Japanese society.Tritia Toyota and Yasuko Takezawa discuss the migration of Japanese women to the United States on March 3 at West Los Angeles Buddhist Church.West Los Angeles United Methodist Church.

1980-2020 (Temple University Press.She also gave some examples of the barriers between American-born Japanese and shin Issei.

Nisei) who had mixed feelings of being Japanese from their World War II camp experience; Japanese businessmen who looked down on Japanese Americans; and the 80s movement for redress and reparations for the WWII incarceration emphasized being Americans of Japanese descent

PASADENA —Naomi Hirahara will join the Book Club of California to discuss Terminal Island: Lost Communities on Americas Edge.Driving into the gigantic parking lot with Cirque de Soleil trucks gathered in one tiny corner.

Given the deplorable conditions.she had an immediate re-lived sensory experience.

was only 3? when she first arrived at the assembly center.Dirt floors were covered with wooden planks that did nothing to disguise the stench from animal droppings.