CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: The Preternatural & Implant Instead of Keiro
(Published Feb. 17, 2016) Free at last (with apologies to MLK). Midway through yet another synopsis of the Kei-Ai (nee Keiro) story, I...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 19, 20165 min read
IT PAYS TO KNOW: Centenarians — An Elite Group
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt — sound familiar? If you’re a student, you might say they are competing high schools. If...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 19, 20163 min read
JAO ESSAY CONTEST: Lead by Example — Reality or Fiction
During his historic tenure as basketball coach of the UCLA basketball team, John Wooden created a set of 12 points on the lessons of...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 19, 20166 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: 2016 — The Oscar Race, and Race and the Oscars, Part 2
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20163 min read
LITTLE TOKYO, INC.: Broken Promises and Next Steps
(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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20163 min read
CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: Now That It‘s Over, Let ‘s Try Getting Along
(Published Feb. 10, 2016) Well, well, well. [Three definitions of “well”: a physical condition, an interjection and a source of supply.]...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20164 min read
RETIREMENT SECRETS: Tax Strategies for Caring for an Aging Parent
Caring for an aging parent is difficult physically, emotionally and financially. To help ease the financial burden, there are...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20165 min read
THROUGH THE FIRE: Keiro — Too Little Too Late? Sez Who?!!!
(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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20164 min read
EAST WIND: Remedials
“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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20163 min read
CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: Keiro Still the News Despite Dr. Terasaki & ‘O’
(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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 17, 20166 min read
PERSONAL ESSAY: Meds or Natural? There IS Another Way
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 12, 20166 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Oscars So White — 20 Years Later, Finally a Solution
It was early 1996. When the 166 Academy Awards nominations were announced, only one of them was for a black person. African Americans...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 9, 20163 min read
RETIREMENT TIPS: Budget Deal Curbs Social Security Claiming Options
In November 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1314, more commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. One...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 9, 20165 min read
OPEN END-O: What Would Horse Do?
“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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 5, 20166 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: 2016 — The Oscar Race, and Race and the Oscars
(Published Feb. 4, 2016) In the weeks since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday, Jan. 14, its...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 2, 20161 min read
GENIE’S LAMP: Seasons Turn and Fold
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…...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 1, 20163 min read
J-TOWN BEAT: A Son of Westwood and Boyle Heights
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 1, 20165 min read
EAST WIND: Continuing the Joy of Oshogatsu
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...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jan 28, 20166 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: What You Didn’t See on ‘Chelsea Does Racism’
Last June, Clara Chiu of Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Stewart Kwoh’s group) told me they’d been approached by documentary...
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Rafu Shimpo
Jan 28, 20163 min read
THROUGH THE FIRE: The Crimson Kimono
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...
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