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By NAOMI HIRAHARA I experienced an early defining moment when I was a young twentysomething reporter at The Rafu Shimpo in 1986. Before that, I had lived a relatively sheltered life, graduating from South Pasadena High School and then going on to Stanford University in pristine Palo Alto. A nine-month stint in Tokyo followed in…
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