East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center.

Encouraging American baseball fans to visit the players hometowns and potentially allowing for Torrance Little League teams to establish relationships leading to a potential youth baseball exchange program.Torrance continues to be the perfect destination for Japanese visitors.

Bringing increased sales tax revenue by attraction of visitors.Taking action now will position Torrance as a ‘first mover before any other city in the Los Angeles area.Positioning Torrance as the central location for international fans over the next 10 years.

restaurants and support services.The council agreed to request city staff to proceed with the friendship city application process and to reach out to the cities of Oshu and Bizen.

Torrance currently has one sister city.

We also look forward to working with the Dodger organization in creating a Shohei Ohtani Day in Torrance.Muranakas cartoons have been inspired by her father and his three adopted cats.

has been a long time coming for Muranaka.that it can go both ways — you can do things that are very emotional and joyful and you can capture so many different things in a cartoon.

had the experience of being a foreigner.My son actually loved counting book growing up – those were the simple board books that hold up to grubby hands.