legacy businesses and a permanent home for GFBNEC.

We also had access to our “Torrance Beach” branded city merchandise (yes.”I had not prepared for the dance.

My mind was only focused on “the dance.I was determined to learn the Kashiwa Odori so I could best represent the City of Torrance at the Welcome and Sayonara Dinners.I’ve had the good fortune of visiting Japan many times.

As the Nikkei member of the City Council.along with the mayor and the City Council.

”———Jon Kaji is a member of the Torrance City Council and president of Kaji Associates.

I would be dancing just ahead of him.LAPD Chief Michel Moore drew attention to the rise in hate crimes since Oct.

with 49 hate crimes reported in that two-week period.but this time the chore was just a little bit sadder for the master artist-in-residence at the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.

(YUKIKAZU NAGASHIMA/Rafu Shimpo)RAFU STAFF REPORTIt wasnt the first time Hirokazu Kosaka found himself scrubbing graffiti off the Bunichi Kagawa monument at Second Street and Central Avenue.000 persons of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned.