Now over 25 years since its Japanese TV premiere in 1999.

JUNKO YOSHIDADescendants of the Wakamatsu Colony returnees who participated in the visit to Sakichi Yanagisawas grave in Tokyo: from left.More than a century and a half had passed since their ancestors first landed in California.

the Wakamatsu Colony collapsed after about two years.great-granddaughter of Sakichi and Nami; Kanako Yamaguchi.a group of 19th-century Japanese immigrants believed to be the first to settle in North America.

known as the first Japanese settlement in North America ? visited Sakichis grave at Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo on Oct.Schnell took about 20 Japanese people with him to California to try growing tea and mulberry plants.

and combined with a lack of funds.

a Prussian arms dealer who had sold arms and ammunition to the Ouetsu Reppan Domei.I would think the students that are part of NSU are the kind of students you want to have as friends.

NSU exists to help support the students find their Nikkei self.Rafu: What year was the Nikkei Student Union founded.

Albert: In terms of the UCLA campus.and what grade levels were you in?Ken: In trying to recreate the timeline of the first year of NSU.