I felt a great deal of responsibility because I was not sure I was completely ready.

slender forms of Koyanagis dolls convey an elegance and a stillness.The Shumei Hall Gallery is open Monday to Saturday.

She now lives in Los Angeles and continues to create her beautiful dolls.she began to develop her own style that was more akin to sculpture than traditional doll-making.At the end of a two-month process.

No other doll-maker uses this technique.so she is the only artist making dolls using this method today.

and employ a unique technique that will soon be lost to the world.

and that through this transformation the community will flourish.Mark Takano (D-Riverside): Fred Korematsu stood up for all Americans rights and freedoms by resisting Japanese American internment during World War II.

000 people of Japanese ancestry who were forced into incarceration.we reflect on his courage to seek justice following the years of bigotry and xenophobia from the American government that ultimately led to the incarceration of innocent Japanese Americans.

but also became one of the over 120.the civil rights hero who challenged the unjust and racist internment of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II and fought for freedom and racial justice his entire life.