; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

Not only players from Japan; think of the Nikkei athletes who have made their mark since Nomo: Kurt Suzuki.he has spent the last five seasons in Orange County.

RPV — all these parts of SoCal have many JAs who call it home.and learn some of the history that happened to Japanese Americans in Los Angeles.you cant help but feel bad for the hapless Angels.

with his signature tornado wind-up.The new season cant start soon enough.

From Dodger Stadium you can almost see Little Tokyo.

Daisuke Matsuzaka and of course.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.