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Ill never forget hearing the beautiful sounds of shamisen music coming out of the windows down into the streets.The Nisei Week Parade was a big annual event we always looked forward to.

to helping each other build their businesses and grow into the community we call Little Tokyo (Nihonmachi).My mother carried me on her back (ombu style) when I was 4 years old.First Street got electric P cars.

gaman and hard work that grew Little Tokyo.and was honored at age 21 to serve as 1954 Nisei Week Queenas part of the celebration of the 13th NiseiWeek Festival and now at age of 92.

Then the Nisei came to Little Tokyo and said.

We saw sharply dressed white-uniformed Japanese sailors looking so handsome walking down First Street whenever their ships were docked at San Pedro Harbor.Not everyone may share that goal … some hope to amass as much material wealth as possible.

But what if you knew that date? What if you knew you only had three months to live? It would be like an episode of The Twilight Zone!How would you spend those last three months?Would you start checking items off a bucket list.But whatever your goal in life.

That flicker represented the time of an average life span.do as John Wooden used to say.