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Visitors sampled products at food and beverage booths.when the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California (JCCSC) leaders announced the launch of the first Oshogatsu celebration.

Dodgers and soccer players Maya Yoshida and Miki Yamane of the L.kimono contest and fashion show.the Japanese American National Museum held its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival featuring snake-themed crafts and origami.

By ELLEN ENDORAFU SHIMPOTwenty-six years ago.Festivities also included an impromptu odori procession from Weller Court to Japanese Village Plaza.

Aikido Dojo students demonstrating their techniques.

A subsequent Family Festival was held Jan.My mother was faced with the choice to stay in China and live under communist rule or join her husband in America.

my father had to find another path to enter the U.My father never returned to China as world events would prevent that.

We won the Space Race when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.Many clients were Vietnamese boat people who were persecuted ethnic Chinese fleeing Vietnam after the country was taken over by the communists.