generally Christmas was celebrated with family and New Years with friends.

Rafu contributing writer Masao Yamashiro.The LAPD is looking into whether any images of the culprits were captured on nearby surveillance cameras.

Left behind were the words FREE GAZA emblazoned with black paint on the granite poetry wall located at the west end of the Honda Plaza shopping area.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.

where he organized a literature group.With stores in thousands of communities across the country.

we evaluate the store portfolio” and typically open.Starbucks at Second and San Pedro streets in Little Tokyo.

The closures of the six Southland stores included in the NLRB complaint were announced by the company last summer.of which about 3% were unionized.