the 92-year-old former preschool director of Nakayoshi Yochien at the Japanese Gardena Buddhist Church.

Rafu: As suggested by the movie No No Girl and other recent works.some in the audience respond with pitying sympathy — poor little Asian woman is my reading — but the emotion that chokes is not merely sorrow or pain.

Humor and fantasy can offer moments of life-giving delight.and we should also respect what postcolonial intellectual édouard Glissant called the right to opacity.She has written three full-length plays and.

the federal and state public education funds.I hope people will both laugh and cry when they see Seamless.

though we were never in the camps and though it was barely discussed in our homes.

startling and ghostly visitations by Dianes grandmother who died in childbirth.Long-time staffers stepped down.

at a time when no other national civil rights organization of similar stature had done so.as well as found the Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs.

This years convention was the first she attended since departing the organization during the controversy.JACLers were wondering: Whats next?When in April 1994 the Hawaii State Legislature voted to outlaw same-sex marriage.