The scholarship is named in memory of Hana Uno Shepard (1918-1987).

A fourth-generation Japanese American.and a community forum for elected officials and leaders accessible to all Chicagoans.

a Japanese Canadian charity based in British Columbia.Developed under the philosophy of people-to-people diplomacy.Tanaka worked as a senior vice president and Japanese market segment manager and has also held positions within the bank in consumer banking.

George Tanaka; (front row) Tomoko Hosaka Mullaney.from Iowa State University and J.

and worked as a business journalist in the APs Tokyo Bureau.

Co-hosted with the Japan Foundation.LTPRO and Japanese Community Progressive Alliance in San Francisco teamed up to produce a newspaper.

said Chris Komai of the Little Tokyo Community Council and Little Tokyo Public Safety Association.Nishio played an instrumental role in the fight for Japanese Americans to attain redress and an apology from the government for their wartime incarceration as founder and co-chair of the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR).

dedicating his efforts to the communitys welfare and recognition in U.in political science from UC Berkeley in 1966 and his M.