and learning about the Japanese culture and lifestyle.

and a team of extended family and friends planned one for the books! Not only was Asian Persuasion right on the beat.Uyematsu) Cherry Blossoms last 40 acres of his Manhattan Beach 120-acre estate.

Photo by WENDY NAGATANIMike Goodlow.Maddox joined the classroom talks via Zoom from New York City.she managed to tell me that we lived on the same street.

something that seems almost dead in this day and age.Josslyn Lucketts just-released book.

I was invited to speak at Torrance and North high schools May 12 and 16.

Moving on to May the 4th (Be with You) — Visual Communications Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival had a free program featuring pioneering Asian American films from the era of UCLAs EthnoCommunications Film Program and the early days of VMy first ‘adult job was as a receptionist for a Downtown L.

and Hamilton High School (there may have been additional high schools offering Japanese).I was one of the students from California state and private universities in the Kokusaibu (International Division) at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Follett passed away peacefully on Aug.the couple moved to Southern California.