The 16th Los Angeles Tanabata Festival returned to the Japanese American National Museum on Aug.

She also emphasized the importance of young people getting involved.? Barbara Shirota has been a long-standing member of the East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center.

? Margaret Shimada recently retired after nearly 30 years at the Little Tokyo Service Center.predominantly occupied by women.particularly focusing on the history of the World War II incarceration.

She has provided pro bono legal services to numerous Japanese American nonprofit organizations and has been a leader in the Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council.where she served as its first female president.

“We need younger generations to also volunteer and get to know these organizations because sometimes they can’t keep going if they don’t have newer members.

JUN NAGATA / Rafu ShimpoNisei Week Pioneer Spirit Award recipients (seated.Be Japanese and bring honor to yourself and your family.

The Secret Service was also given responsibility to protect Chiang Chingkuo.Your behavior has nothing to do with what America did to us.

I learned that people from back east were not as prejudiced against the Japanese as the people on the West Coast.I got everything I dreamed for.