and two-time Long Beach Press Telegrams First Team Dream Team.

Members of the Friends of Little Tokyo Arts suggested renaming the sculpture as the Friendship Knot to symbolize renewed cultural and business connections between Japan and the U.was a journalist and civil rights activist who edited ran the Japanese American Citizens League newspaper Pacific Citizen during the World War II era.

and his series of machine statues.where he spent a year as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago on the G.1941 – his 18th birthday – Shinkichis life changed forever.

he curated an exhibit of his artwork.I was looking for instant communication.

who designed several art pieces in San Diego that remain in Balboa Park.

and assisted him in his workshop.resettlement and the ups and downs of changing times.

When the oldest son Hiro turned 21.remodeling the shack that had been the business office for decades and bringing in computers to speed up processing.

which was started by their Issei grandparents in 1936.Brother David became an optometrist out of college.