RETIREMENT SECRETS: Baby Boomers Planning for Aging Parents
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jun 3, 20164 min read
OPEN END-O: Chicken Nuggets for the Brain
(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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jun 1, 20164 min read
THROUGH THE FIRE: You Don’t Know Jack
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....
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Rafu Shimpo
May 31, 20163 min read
What Do DJ Hideo and ’80s and ’90s Hip-hop Mean to Me?
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 31, 20163 min read
Kickin’ It Old Skool
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 30, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Droughtful
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 ...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 27, 20165 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Arriving Soon — Rafu Shimpo’s Future
TOKYO — In my May 12 column, I called on my fellow Rafu Shimpo English section columnists and contributors, as well as interested...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 24, 20165 min read
IT PAYS TO KNOW: What’s a Negative Interest Rate???
At the beginning of the year, Japan’s central bank announced negative interest rates in a move to boost a stumbling recovery in the...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 23, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: A New World Sings
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 23, 20162 min read
RETIREMENT TIPS: Debt and Retirement
Will sizable debt follow you into retirement? The number of Americans in or nearing retirement who are still holding significant...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 20, 20164 min read
J-SLANTED: From This Generation to the Next — Kizuna Celebrates Five
(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....
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Rafu Shimpo
May 19, 20166 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: The TV Networks Announce Their 2016-2017 Season
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 18, 20166 min read
TOMI-TALK: Sleeping in Seattle
(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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 17, 20164 min read
OPEN END-O: Dear Me
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha, founder of Buddhism I have...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 16, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Shamelessly
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 13, 20165 min read
EAST WIND: ‘Crimson Kimono’ and James Shigeta
“… James Shigeta has matinee idol good looks and a soothing baritone voice that should send the record companies mad for his autograph on...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 13, 20166 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Obama’s Hiroshima Visit — Symbolism and Substance
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 9, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Mood Indigo
By GENIE NAKANO Aimi Indigo sky above with a sliver of a crescent moon—- Aimi can move freely—almost invisible–away from the glaring ...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 9, 20165 min read
THROUGH THE FIRE: Right of Passage — How a Wrong Got Righted
Am I overstating it? I liken Janice Tanaka’s documentary “Right of Passage” to Oliver Stone’s “JFK” — it’s packed with so much...
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Rafu Shimpo
May 9, 20166 min read
IT PAYS TO KNOW: Can You Die of a Broken Heart?
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...
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