Northeast Torrance resident Alvin Takamori submitted an 11-page appeal and we urge you to consider his appeal.

and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace; About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater; and the recent Worldmaking: Race.such as Do you think internment affected you and your family? I started to answer.

It would help future generations understand what the incarcerated had to face and how they survived.who literally pull her to and fro.One manifestation evident in Seamless is the anxious performance of model minority excellence in protagonist Dianes life — a seamlessly perfect ideal that comes unraveled by the end of the play.

Performances are scheduled for Sunday.Where did it come from? The sensation of choking felt like a knot at the core of my being.

Has that been your observation as well?Kondo: I think all historical traumas produce effects that extend far beyond the event itself.

Dianes dilemmas — how to balance career and family.Okamura and Briones then unveiled the new signs on First Street that now mark the historic site.

when Japanese Americans were ordered to board buses that would take them to concentration camps.the newly incorporated JANM signed a 50-year lease with the City of Los Angeles to renovate the historic temple building and convert it into a museum.

who spoke about the his organizations many projects and ongoing work to raise the visibility of historic sites throughout Little Tokyo.800 square feet of space for exhibitions.