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Alverno High School to Mark One-Year Anniversary of Tsunami with Japanese Visitors

SIERRA MADRE — On Monday, Feb. 6, Alverno High School will welcome 80 visitors from the Uekusa Bunka Girls High School in Tokyo. For the past nine years, the students at Uekusa Bunka have made the 5,000-mile... 

Jury Begins Hearing Penalty Phase of Convicted Triple-Murderer’s Trial

CITY NEWS SERVICE A prosecutor urged jurors Tuesday to recommend a death sentence for a man who killed a fellow inmate in 2005 while awaiting trial for the slayings of two Marymount College students gunned... 

Honda ‘Stunned’ by Komen’s Decision

WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) said on Tuesday that he was “stunned and saddened” that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has decided to stop funding for breast cancer prevention,... 

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Beating the Drum in San Gabriel

The San Gabriel Valley Japanese American Cultural and Community Center celebrated a combined Shinnenkai and Keirokai this past weekend. A full house was in attendance and treated to a delicious luncheon,... 

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SCNAU – Week 4 Scores

Franklin Masters Islanders (51)—H. Oei 17, W. Gin 5, S. Yoshimoto 11, J. Utsunomiya 6, J. Ozawa 2, K. Tashiro 2, R. Matsumoto 8. La Glen Nursery (34)—L. Young 7, M. Nakata 4, D. Yaguchi 1, G. West... 

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Garden Supporters Meet in Bel Air

By RYOKO OHNISHI RAFU STAFF WRITER Bill Ota, who maintains the Japanese Garden at Cal State Dominguez Hills, listens to the UCLA representative, Brad Erickson, executive director UCLA Campus Service Enterprises,... 

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A Requiem for Community Redevelopment

The preservation of First Street and construction of institutions such as the Japanese American National Museum and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center were among the projects assisted... 

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Cherry Trees Jubilee

Sopia Kakueva, 9, explains the her artwork, which was part of a display Sunday at the Huntington Library of pieces by children depicting cherry blossoms. The library purchased 1,000 cherry trees as part... 

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INTO THE NEXT STAGE: The 11th Commandment — Get a Tablet — Written in Pixels

By GEORGE TOSHIO JOHNSTON (First published in The Rafu Shimpo on Feb. 2, 2012.) === It’s very possible that historians will mark April 3, 2010 as the day that everything changed regarding how first-world,... 

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‘Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake’ opens March 4

A photo of tsunami survivors from The Kahoku Shimpo. By STACEY RAVEL ABARBANEL === On March 11, 2011, a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit the coast of northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami that... 

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