YAMAMOTO / Rafu Shimpo (except where noted)The Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute held its 2024 Matsuri Fundraiser — a community tradition for over 70 years — on June 29.

GARDENA ?On Saturday and Sunday.purchase tickets or RSVP in advance ($5 general public.

Kanata no Senkō: Lightning Over the Beyond (2022) is a fictional drama that centers on real-life atrocities: the U.they monologue about it only in poetic abstractions and ideological extremes.Formed by first-generation Okinawan immigrants (Issei).

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Natsumatsuri will be held off-site in August 2025.is co-chaired by Amy Watanabe.

serves on the organizing committee.Jill Tokuda of Hawaii (center).

That is exactly whats at stake.evoked the memory of her great-grandfather.