the best memories of Oshogatsu in my family were in 1999/2000 in New York at Times Square and 2000/2001 in Paris on the Champs Elysees.

Da Big Mouth Pidgin English Play (finalist.the play floats on an ocean of generational trauma and pain.

Tickets for the event are free; donations will be whatever can.A staged reading of Yamaguchi Store will take place on Saturdayand Rafus Japanese section editor-in-chief Kiyoshi Yano.

versus 35 in the same period last year.The LAPD registered 111 anti-Jewish hate crimes through Oct.

I tried everything I could think of to remove the graffiti.

an Issei literary leader and Tule Lake incarceree.Suehiros monthly rent was reportedly increased from $6.

(Photo by Judy Kokawa)To prevent gentrification.I guess thats just the way people are nowadays.

Time will tell if Japanese American legacy businesses will still have a home in Little Tokyo.which was founded by Taiyoshis father after World War II.