which performed in Los Angeles and other towns.

will hold a gathering dedicated to exploring the trauma wrought by the World War II removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast.will plumb the depths of the individual.

The event will be held at the Japanese American National Museum and DoubleTree by Hilton Los Angeles Downtown in Little Tokyo.who will share their personal and professional healing journeys.The traumatic experience of the race-based mass removal and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast led to fractures in our psyches.

?The Grateful Crane Ensemble.we will delve into the fissures of racism and injustice.

Generational break-out groups will follow.

survivor of the WWII prison camps and author of The Poet and The Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love.and director/publisher Jeffrey Gee Chin

the photography dynasty that has chronicled the JA community through four generations.By ELLEN ENDORafu ShimpoNews that two Little Tokyo businesses — JiST Café and CRFT by Maki — are closing permanently rippled throughout the Japanese American community over the weekend with a sadness that cut across generations.

LTSC owns both the building that housed JiST Café and the Daimaru Hotel.It pains me to make this announcement because its a decision that wasnt easy to make.