is stunned when his favorite player suddenly emerges.

The George and Sakaye Aratani CARE Award and UCLAs Asian American Studies Center.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.a reunion of kotoists and a koto workshop for interested new players will take place at Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temples Kaikan.

I fondly remember all the recitals at Koyasan and concerts at the Japan America Theatre.

along with a group of senior koto players called Team Kotomoto.smothering the blast and saving his comrades.

Germanys last line of defense in Italy.Receiving a one-page bio with photo of one of the KIA soldiers whose name is etched on the granite walls of the Memorial Court.

200 other Japanese Americans from all wars who gave their lives while serving in the U.Postal Service cancelation postmark: Nisei Week Station.