but Lana said the turning point for her was balancing the mental part of the game.

After lunch and cake at Elsies party.Life-long friends Shigeko Shag Morishita and Elsie Uyematsu (Osajima) both hit 100 in July.

Shag had a large gathering taking up all of Leonard Kims Cherrystones in Gardena.Elsie Uyematsu and her sister Helen Matsunaga — the Morita sisters — at Elsies 100th birthday party.how can you fall asleep at your own birthday party!?! Elsie made a brief acknowledgment to Shag.

Shag and Elsie show us the resilience that over 90 years of friendship can bring.remarked how the two of them used to sit and talk for hours apart from everybody else at Japanese school.

Shag showed her relentless spunk.

Elsie had a small party at Hollenbeck Palms.Today is a day of action and I am enraged how immigrants are being treated violently.

many of these institutions have bowed down to the tyrants demands.Some participants held up banners representing the 10 War Relocation Authority camps and other confinement sites.

amid the hysteria that followed Japans attack on Pearl Harbor months earlier.was brought on stage so that the audience could sing Happy Birthday.