From the Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council.

has written about the underlying value of the community leagues.He started playing for the San Francisco Associates in the first grade and went to Japan as a player for the Shinzen Nikkei Youth Goodwill Program.

But the question is how and why does basketball provide identity and connections to/within the Japanese American community?Komai.a small group of concerned basketball leaders in Southern California formed the Nikkei Basketball Heritage Association with the intent of documenting and teaching the history of Japanese American community basketball and its connection to traditional Japanese cultural values.It emphasizes the connections between organized basketball and traditional Japanese cultural values.

Whereas the Issei and Nisei who pioneered the Nikkei leagues wanted to pass their traditional cultural values to their children and grandchildren.who wrote his masters thesis on The East Bay Japanese American Community: A Look at Community Culture.

government to leave their homes and businesses and were unfairly incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II.

His mother Dori played for the Enchantees and his grandmother Helen played for the Arbees in the 1950s.and Westlake Village; the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel Air.

died in 2006 at the age of 79.Im so excited to see the project materialize.

Allen represents Senate District 24Based on this fond food memory.