a Los Angeles-born immigrant rights attorney who led cases against the immigration policies of former President Donald Trump.

From the Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council.Frances Shima Matsumoto (1981).

treasurer of the Suburban Optimist Club.was organized as a marketing strategy to celebrate the achievements of the Japanese American community and bring in outside shoppers to the struggling businesses in Little Tokyo.Dominique Mashburn (2014); (front row) Alice Amano (2018).

Then the Suburban Optimists decided to take over sponsorship in 1974 when I was selected their first queen.when Hirahara was 6 years old.

Then the Suburban Optimist Club of Buena Park decided to sponsor a queen candidate.

Sandra Fukushima Ninomiya represented the Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council in 1989.The program is free and open to the public.

has written about the underlying value of the community leagues.He started playing for the San Francisco Associates in the first grade and went to Japan as a player for the Shinzen Nikkei Youth Goodwill Program.

But the question is how and why does basketball provide identity and connections to/within the Japanese American community?Komai.a small group of concerned basketball leaders in Southern California formed the Nikkei Basketball Heritage Association with the intent of documenting and teaching the history of Japanese American community basketball and its connection to traditional Japanese cultural values.