Kazutaka Hirose (left), city news desk reporter for the Kyoto Shimbun, visited The Rafu Shimpo’s office last week. A relative of Rafu staffer J.K. Yamamoto (right), Hirose met family members in California and toured both Little Tokyo and San Francisco Japantown. He plans to write about Japanese Americans and community newspapers. (Photo by GAIL MIYASAKI/Rafu Shimpo)