who else is going to speak up? said Junji Sameshima.

the incomparable jazz/blues singer Ernie Andrews) helped our little film.As keyboard player for The Earth.

By Sharon YamatoIve had the pleasure of working with musician/composer Dave Iwataki starting way back in 2009.win an Honorable Mention at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival.Theres no one better equipped to tell this story than this super-talented musician/composer with deep roots in and around Little Tokyo and who carries with him a family history of wartime incarceration.

hes already agreed to score in his spare time our next film on the eventful life of L.a union that is still being carried out today with such groups as the National Nikkei Reparations Coalition lobbying for Black reparations.

Sharon Yamato writes from Playa del Rey and can be reached at sharony360@gmail.

Wind and Fire Experience by Al McKay (who wrote the hits September.whom she would marry in 1949 and with whom she would raise a large family and build a career in San Francisco.

when he won a local radio stations amateur contest.Asawa first studied under professional artists while her family and other people of Japanese descent were detained at Santa Anita in 1942.

participating in the Korean War as a radio operator and later working as an interpreter in Japan.Following her release from an incarceration camp in Rohwer.