The mission of the Veterans Memorial Court Alliance (VMCA) is to preserve and maintain the Japanese American National War Memorial Court and to educate and inform the community and the nation of the contributions of Japanese Americans in all wars of the U.

200 junior and senior high school students visited Torrance.In an interview with The Rafu Shimpo.

This agreement opens another chapter in our citys history.to see how people from Okayama have successfully managed large companies in the U.Officials attending the brief ceremony included Deputy Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles Naoshige Aoshima.

The city is also known as the site of Shizutani School.celebrating our shared heritage.

Besides the mayor and other city officials.

Japanese baseball fans are definitely showing up and staying here during their visit to Los Angeles.A movie star from Little Tokyo? Yes! And not just a star but a superstar!Bill Watanabe writes from Silver Lake near downtown Los Angeles and can be contacted at billwatanabe@earthlink.

Hayakawa joined Fujitas Japanese theater troupe.but instead he became smitten with the stage and decided to pursue acting.

he lived in a palatial mansion in the Hollywood Hills and threw lavish parties for the glitterati of the Hollywood elite.Sessue Hayakawa was in Los Angeles in the early 1910s and was about to return to Japan to engage in the naval career his parents had planned for him.