explained her commitment to community.

both Japanese Americans and also Shin-Issei.I think her name was Mary Matsumoto and I wanted to be a majorette just like her when I grew up.

Fugetsu-do celebrates their 121st anniversary this year.stopping only to let the wooden street cars go through.Japanese theater was alive and well in Los Angeles until the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

We need to grow this area more and started Nisei Week to get more people to come down to Little Tokyo to shop and visit – to make it a gathering place for farmers to bring their families into town and meet friends at the local restaurants like Kawafuku.it was the Issei who taught us the value of helping one another.

Then we would practice Japanese dance (odori) and rehearse kabuki plays in hotel rooms on First Street.

Then other businesses grew here in Little Tokyo.We should celebrate Shinkichi Tajiri as one of the great Asian American artists of his generation.

and after recuperating in an Army hospital near Rome.As he explained: Art today is so complicated.

to commemorate his 100th birthday.Shinkichi constructed an iron knot sculpture for the town of Bruyères.