I believe the people who came here as immigrants initially chose the City Hall vicinity as a relatively safe place to live and work and gather.

Tastings will include Junmai sake.A delegation will sign the agreement on Oct.

TORRANCE —Shohei Ohtanis hometown will get a warm welcome next month as it signs a friendship city agreement with the City of Torrance during the first Sake Matsuri on Friday.Admission is $75 plus service fee.The Oshu city flagOhtani was born in Oshu.

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she has a phone book in her bag.

The Little Tokyo Dance Club posted.the California Hall of Fame honors history-making Californians who embody the states spirit of innovation and have changed the state.

she won four national titles from 1946 to 1948.Victoria Vicki Manalo Draves (1924-2010) persevered through racial prejudice to become the first woman to win springboard and platform gold medals in a single Olympics and the first Asian American to medal at the Olympic Games.

Three other Nisei —Fred Korematsu.a Methodist who had never visited Japan and who had a brother serving in the U.