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Have you ever noticed that time seems to go faster the older we get? For Baby Boomers, your parents suddenly get old and need help. It...

(Published May 28, 2016) “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want...

A number of years ago, when I was the executive director of the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), we had a Nisei volunteer named Jack....

DJ Hideo, “The Hardest-Working DJ on the West Coast.” By KELSEY IINO If you asked me a few months ago, “What do the Little Tokyo Service...

Hip-hop was the soundtrack of the JA social scene in Southern California in the late ’80s and ’90s. Little Tokyo Service Center will be...

By GENIE NAKANO Sky, you’ve been holding on too long pour it on, we need rain for our droughtful minds picking, poking on myself ...

TOKYO — In my May 12 column, I called on my fellow Rafu Shimpo English section columnists and contributors, as well as interested...

At the beginning of the year, Japan’s central bank announced negative interest rates in a move to boost a stumbling recovery in the...

By GENIE NAKANO the train lost speed and just plain stopped no brakes needed natural as the green grass on the other side of the...

Will sizable debt follow you into retirement? The number of Americans in or nearing retirement who are still holding significant...

(Published May 11, 2016) Last week, I had the pleasure (despite the sullen reason) to interview Sats Uyeda. He of the 71-year-old S.K....

It’s mid-May, that time of the year when the television networks go to New York to officially announce the new shows they’ve decided to...

(Photo by Eliot Kamenitz) By DELIA TOMINO NAKAYAMA Why does John Okada’s “No-No Boy,” published in 1957, resonate with me, a Hapa Yonsei...

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha, founder of Buddhism I have...

By GENIE NAKANO white cane tapping he wants to cross the street he is blind so I stare shamelessly into his eyes we are the same...

“… James Shigeta has matinee idol good looks and a soothing baritone voice that should send the record companies mad for his autograph on...

After more than seven decades since the end of World War II, it is now official: President Obama will later this month become the first...

By GENIE NAKANO Aimi Indigo sky above with a sliver of a crescent moon—- Aimi can move freely—almost invisible–away from the glaring ...

Am I overstating it? I liken Janice Tanaka’s documentary “Right of Passage” to Oliver Stone’s “JFK” — it’s packed with so much...

According to my wife, it is possible to die of a broken heart. No, she’s not a doctor. As her source, she’ll cite a Hollywood movie, “The...