to prevent damage and looting seen last weekend stemming from protests against federal immigration raids in the area.

Live music was provided by Ruri Matthews.The guest speaker was Kurt Ikeda.

on July 19 at Torrance Airports Zamperini Field.YAMAMOTO/Rafu ShimpoFrom left: Matthew Clingerman (scholarship chair).Ruby Shimamoto is a recent graduate from South Pasadena High School.

This years scholarship recipients:Hina Usuda is a recent graduate of South High School in Torrance.Kelly Jernigan attended and graduated from Foothill High School of Santa Ana.

The Greater Los Angeles JACL held All That Jazz.

She is going to CSU Long Beach as a pre-business marketing major.Emphasizing our shared responsibility to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Kakitas parents were incarcerated at Poston in Arizona for the duration of the war.Born in California and raised in Japan during World War II.

Kakita recalled that he and his younger brother Kenny were taken to Hiroshima by their parents in 1939 to visit their ailing grandfather.Kakita and his brother were sent back to their parents.