the only Okinawa Bon Odori in Southern California.

a real estate broker and longtime JATCSF trustee.University of Southern CaliforniaEthan Kazuo Ikenaga.

Also addressing the scholars was Consul General Kenko Sone.Los Angeles Dodgers historian Mark Langill was the keynote speaker.867 Japanese American scholars.

Kenji Ito Memorial Scholarship Fund.Photo by ALAN MIYATAKEThe 2025 JATCSF scholarship recipients with Consul General Kenko Sone and Mami Sone.

Northwestern UniversityCorey Umamoto.

000 scholarships recently during the 2025 Japanese American Treaty Centennial Scholarship Fund (JATCSF) luncheon.panelists spoke of the struggle for acceptance.

The first session was a panel of gay and lesbian community members and parents who shared their personal struggles.and struggling to hide their true selves.

After a series of a few more speakers.Centenary agrees to accept the Reconciling Ministries Foundational Statement:We celebrate Gods gift of diversity and value the wholeness made possible in community equally shared and shepherded by all.