president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; California Democratic Party Secretary Diana Love.

Professor Art Hansen recalled in Nakagawas Rafu Shimpo obituary:While I was profoundly moved by her courageous championing of multiple civil liberties.He and the late Jim Matsuoka were my mentors when I was a young adult exploring what it meant to be an Asian American.

recalled the impact Alan had on her when she first met him at UCLA:I was a freshman in the Asian American High Potential Program at UCLA in 1970 when Alan was the acting director of Asian American Studies at the school.her work with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center researching and archiving the experiences of the World War II draft resisters.First Street and Central Avenue in Little Tokyo.

Japanese American National Museum.He was fondly remembered by many students and activists he mentored.

and we were all about to leave Manzanar.

I later participated in the movement against redevelopment in J-Town with the Little Tokyo Peoples Rights Organization (LTPRO) in the 1970s and have been involved in other community activities ever since.drawing comparison to Babe Ruth.

and was widely and continually criticized by former players even after Ohtani proved in 2016 that he could excel at both.Among them are pitchers Kazuhisa Ishii.

stunned Japans pro baseball community by announcing he would turn pro with an MLB team.This was particularly true from 2021.