to my dreams and for my family.

Fugetsu-do celebrates their 121st anniversary this year.stopping only to let the wooden street cars go through.

Japanese theater was alive and well in Los Angeles until the bombing of Pearl Harbor.We need to grow this area more and started Nisei Week to get more people to come down to Little Tokyo to shop and visit – to make it a gathering place for farmers to bring their families into town and meet friends at the local restaurants like Kawafuku.it was the Issei who taught us the value of helping one another.

Then we would practice Japanese dance (odori) and rehearse kabuki plays in hotel rooms on First Street.Then other businesses grew here in Little Tokyo.

other businesses would help support and patronize that store or restaurant.

We were chased away from the Buddhist temples because we made too much noise while our parents were trying to pray.which included a series of sketches of his wartime experiences that depicted soldiers and refugees.

he struggled to come to terms with that experience and his feelings of being entangled in (and with) his American identity.1923 in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Put a knot in the middle of a jungle.he subscribed to Time and occasionaly received copies of The Los Angeles Times and Rafu Shimpo.