a friend of mine said he doesnt plan to leave his kids anything.

MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS/Rafu ShimpoHigh school students taking part in 2022 in the inaugural Go For Broke Journalism Institute (from left): Esmeralda Medina.The 82nd Nisei Week Japanese Festival is a nine-day event first held in 1934 and is recognized today as one of the nations longest-running cultural festivals.

they even survived on the goodness of some food vendors that provided them with overripe fruits to eat so that they could save the money to pay their employees.This award recognizes organizations for their outstanding contributions to the Southern California Japanese American community.The annual program includes a National Convening in Los Angeles that fosters civic dialogue and service learning activities centered on the relevance of the Nisei soldiers legacy to issues of social justice.

The path they chose was not what they had expected and much harder than they had imagined.GFBNECs Hanashi Oral History Collection contains over 1.

without any business or restaurant experience.

call the Nisei Week Foundation office at (213) 687-7193 or email info@niseiweek.who gets to combine a lifelong curiosity about people and their stories with a new way to move our communities forward by creating short documentaries.

He continues to support the Asian American community through sports and media arts.She also enjoys researching family histories and finding out how our stories fit into the larger American experience.

from left: Teresa Takaki Matsushima.chronicles her familys mochitsuki.