originally enacted after the 9/11 attacks on America.

Shogun actor Toshi Toda with Inouye.Photos by GWEN MURANAKA except where notedAkaoni Daiko gave a thundering performanceThank you everyone for your support.

Bando Hirohichiro performed a celebratory dance.and also entertaining children with magic.RAFU SENIOR EDITORMore than 120 gathered Saturday to celebrate the Valley Japanese Community Center with song.

Both community centers are doing a great job promoting Japanese culture.The next major event for the center is their Obon festival.

Im trying to hang on as long as I can.

Yoshiko Kawada served as mistress of ceremonies and led a moment of silence for members who had passed away.but instead he became smitten with the stage and decided to pursue acting.

he lived in a palatial mansion in the Hollywood Hills and threw lavish parties for the glitterati of the Hollywood elite.Sessue Hayakawa was in Los Angeles in the early 1910s and was about to return to Japan to engage in the naval career his parents had planned for him.

By Bill WatanabeDid you know that one of the biggest superstars of the silent screen era in Hollywood was a Japanese guy named Sessue Hayakawa?He was cast as the mysterious foreign lover who beguiled young white women on the silver screen before the famous Latin lover Rudolph Valentino.which won the Oscar for Best Picture and for which Hayakawa was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.