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(Published Feb. 17, 2016) Free at last (with apologies to MLK). Midway through yet another synopsis of the Kei-Ai (nee Keiro) story, I...

Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt — sound familiar? If you’re a student, you might say they are competing high schools. If...

During his historic tenure as basketball coach of the UCLA basketball team, John Wooden created a set of 12 points on the lessons of...

Last column I wrote about the 2016 Academy Award noms and the controversy that arose after, for the second year in a row, all the top...

(Published Feb. 10, 2016) Since my last article, written last year on Oct. 1, 2015, much of my focus shifted to the effort to stop the...

(Published Feb. 10, 2016) Well, well, well. [Three definitions of “well”: a physical condition, an interjection and a source of supply.]...

Caring for an aging parent is difficult physically, emotionally and financially. To help ease the financial burden, there are...

(Published Feb. 3, 2016) Many a naysayer passes off the efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee to Save Keiro as “too little too late.” Well, I...

“You just don’t appreciate breathing out of both nostrils, until one is suddenly taken from you.” — Get-well card message Once a year I...

(Published Feb. 3, 2016) I am faced with the usual weekly dilemma: I can’t sing and dance so all that remains are words with which to...

For the past several years, I have faced and tried to deal with health issues, both limiting and life shortening. In 2000, I broke my...

It was early 1996. When the 166 Academy Awards nominations were announced, only one of them was for a black person. African Americans...

In November 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1314, more commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. One...

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” — Euripides 480-406 B.C., writer of Greek tragedies So far, the Year of the Monkey has...

(Published Feb. 4, 2016) In the weeks since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday, Jan. 14, its...

By GENIE NAKANO seasons turn and fold you are young with ideals you must fight serve your country war of the world’s battles on…...

Here at The Rafu, I always hoped that one day we would receive word that Dr. Paul Terasaki, who passed away on Jan. 25, had been awarded...

My dad enjoys watching NHK TV. So when he comes over, we often watch “Itadakimasu: Dining with the Chef,” which I record and save. Last...

Last June, Clara Chiu of Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Stewart Kwoh’s group) told me they’d been approached by documentary...

By BILL WATANABE “The Crimson Kimono” is the title of a B-movie made in 1959 by Hollywood director Sam Fuller, but it was a trailblazing...