Little Tokyo Community Council executive director.

Timing is of the utmost importance.The parade will also feature the Kyoto Tachibana High School Concert Band.

The oldest civic entry in the 136-year history of the parade is South Pasadena.We thought about all the young families and all their kids.Here we have three friends who have strapped together a raft and theyre headed out for an adventure.

The decorating begins in full-frenzied swing after Christmas.Our challenge this year was how to represent the waves in the water.

We reach out to the community every year for design submissions.

The solution to this decorative dilemma was found both locally and across an ocean – the Pacific.Collins a huge debt of gratitude for what he did for fellow Japanese Americans.

many of the Asian American film festivals have turned it down.Their reaction reaffirmed how important it is for all of us.

I was moved by their interest in the story as they asked difficult and thoughtful questions about how the mass incarceration altered history.And I was thrilled to receive an award from the Klamath Film Festival as affirmation that the Collins story had an enthusiastic audience among those not directly affected.