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Posted inColumnists

J-TOWN BEAT: Marking Life and Death in Kobe Time

by Gwen Muranaka 01/28/202004/14/2022

Surreal. Shocking. It can’t be true. It was a ripple of shock, a quick glance at a cellphone that told the horrific news that Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday. That shock is no different in the Japanese and Japanese American communities than any other segment of […]

Posted inColumnists

J-TOWN BEAT: The View from Little Tokyo

by Gwen Muranaka 08/28/201904/14/2022
Posted inCivil Rights, Community, Sports

On the Court at Manzanar

by Rafu Reports 12/08/201712/11/2017
Posted inBusiness, Community, Obituaries

OBITUARY: Noritoshi Kanai, 94; Chairman of Mutual Trading Co.

by Rafu Reports 05/06/201708/09/2021
Posted inEnglish, Featured, Politics

Measure A, Parking Funding Impacts on Asian Americans

by Gwen Muranaka 11/03/201611/03/2016
Posted inColumnists, English

OCHAZUKE: Laborer of Love

by Gwen Muranaka 07/13/201407/28/2021
Posted inEnglish, Entertainment, Featured, Performing Arts

Japan’s Man With a Mission Returns to L.A.

by Michael Culross 07/09/2014
Posted inEnglish, Featured, Sports

Full-Court Fun in J-Town

by Mia Nakaji Monnier 05/15/201205/15/2012
Posted in ニュース, Japanese, 特集記事

ロサンゼルス武道館:州から500万ドルの助成金

by Ryoko Nakamura and Rafu Shimpo 04/04/201204/03/2012
Posted inJapanese, 特集記事

ビル・ワタナベさん:「信頼が成長の秘訣」LTSCでの32年振り返る

by Ryoko Nakamura and Rafu Shimpo 01/07/201211/20/2012

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