Maki is a young entrepreneur who developed his shop into a hybrid retail clothing and accessory store and community space.

Just knowing about their ingenuity and the tools they created is one layer of the story.The museums Pavilion will be closing for the renovation Dec.

spanning two core institutions of Little Tokyo.curator Emily Anderson has been doing research.As the largest Japantown left in North America.

so they can experience it? So importantly it becomes a part of their internalized memories rather just reading about or hearing about it.Its big news and wonderful for the entire community.

We knew we have this big piece we had to fund.

gift of George and Sakaye Aratani.Airis Gold Award project is Open Hearts.

The mentoring benefit of a rainbow troop was on display.She is going to UC Santa Barbara.

filmed and edited a documentary that highlighted the underrepresented personal stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.so she decided to make a custom web-site to connect the community with a larger.