but easily couldve called it J-Town Rising for its impact on this historic neighborhood.

with that came an insistence on authenticity.Toda spoke with a broad smile of his time in Vancouver shooting Shōgun and even joined in dancing Taiko Bushi with other members of Valley JCC.

As Shōgun continues to garner accolades.The circumstances of her death brought attention to the increasing number of lonely deaths in Japan.They filmed part of The Last Samurai at Vibianas in Little Tokyo and I recall going past the film crews who were stationed in a parking lot where the Terasaki Budokan is today.

Barbie hair meant blonde and the little girl in my cartoon felt like she could never be Barbie.who so memorably portrayed Mariko in the 1980 miniseries.

Cartooning for me has been a bit of a personal time capsule and now when I look back I see in some of my older work the way that I have changed and also the ways society has evolved.

I looked and there was Lord Sugiyama.offered endorsements for other scholars work.

American History Unbound (2015).and theories of Third World studies — an academic field first proposed in 1968 — in order to provide tools for understanding power and ending oppression.

** the Associations flagship journal.a leading scholar in Asian American and ethnic studies.