an Oscar nominee for The Bridge on the River Kwai.

her face looking down as her mind gathered an old memory.By BILL WATANABEI had a brother that I never met and never had the chance to get to know as I was growing up.

I started to think recently about my brother that I never met; his name was Takeshi and according to my mother he was an active and rambunctious boy like most boys his age would be.He died in Manzanar in 1942 at the tender age of 4; I was born in Manzanar in 1944 about 16 months after he passed away.On one of those occasions my mother hinted generally that Takeshi had a heart problem and the difficult conditions at Manzanar affected his health and he grew weaker and weaker and could never recover.

I never felt any grief over his death although I did know how his illness and death affected my mother and I did grieve for her pain at the loss of her young son.Boy – that is windy! and we both laughed.

I actually feel some grief and loss for the brother I never knew and as I approach my own eventual demise sometime in the future.

When I was growing up and becoming more curious about life.We hope to reunite the hundreds of koto players in Southern California.

Friends and family of NEA Heritage Award recipient June Kuramoto.who will preside over the event.

Kazue Kudo koto recital at Koyasan in Little Tokyo c.and with support of the Japanese American National Museum and Visual Communications.