ESSAY: Postscript to ‘Death Is a Sure Thing #4: Long-Term Care, Hospice and Caregivers’
From right: Panelists Iku Kiriyama, Mike Umamoto, Gretchen Schaeffer and Alice Nehira at a forum on long-term care, hospice and...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 29, 20155 min read
J-TOWN BEAT: Little Tokyo vs. J-Town
It was a first for me. Talking with James Ota, owner of Oiwake, for the story I wrote on the restaurant’s closing, I found myself choking...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 27, 20151 min read
GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Go Forward
First Prize, Essay, High School One suitcase, each family, all else left behind Dignity, freedom, liberty: were those left too? Trapped,...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 27, 20153 min read
GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: A Silent Call to Action
First Prize, Essay, College/University Daniel Inouye’s inherent, assumed selflessness struck me, a millennial living in culture of...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 26, 20152 min read
SENIOR MOMENTS: Ben Kuroki, War Hero
As noted in the news, Ben Kuroki died recently at age 98. He was someone who was celebrated as someone who overcame overwhelming odds to...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 26, 20153 min read
CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: Community in an Uproar Over Keiro Situation
I used to collect adages and aphorisms, pithy stuff that made a simple but profound statement. “’Tis better to give than receive” is an...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 26, 20153 min read
THROUGH THE FIRE: Death Not for Sissies (or Doggies)
My apologies in advance for writing on such a gloomy topic, but death is a subject with which I have been consumed lately. Like tsunamis...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 26, 20152 min read
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Déjà vu? City View Hospital and Keiro
Entrance to Keiro Retirement Home in Boyle Heights. (NAO NAKANISHI/Rafu Shimpo） Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the recent opinions...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 26, 20152 min read
MAGGIE’S MEOW: More Sentiments on George Yoshinaga
Had I known there would be a time to give an address concerning Mr. Yoshinaga at his funeral on Aug. 27, 2015, I would have said the...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 26, 20154 min read
CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: Belated Attempt to Get 41 Million Answers
By W.T. WIMPY HIROTO I’ve been thinking. We in America are so very fortunate being far removed from the misery and consequences of war....
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 24, 20156 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Overbearing Jessica Huang Mars Second Season Opener of ‘Fresh Off the Boat’
All right, it’s late September, and after all the networks have bombarded us with promos for their fall series, we finally get to see...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 23, 20153 min read
CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: Perchance CR2S Has Found Niche in (Your) Life
How often do you wander off lost in thought? You know, drifting off on a mental detour? Like at a traffic stop, both mind and motor...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 21, 20155 min read
Bob Toji Never Gave Up
Fishing was one of Bob Toji’s favorite pastimes. (Photo courtesy Glenn Inouye) Robert Kazunobu Toji, or Bob, as his family and friends...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 18, 20155 min read
HANGIN’ LOOSE WITH BRUCE: ‘Horse’ Yoshinaga’s Kashu Mainichi Family
By BRUCE UYEMURA Editor’s note: Horse thought of this kicker during his days at Kashu Mainichi. In thinking back to my days working in...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 18, 20156 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: The Greatest Accomplishment of Ben Kuroki
Ben Kuroki, who died Tuesday, Sept. 1, at age 98, nearly didn’t get to accomplish all that he did: join the U.S. military and receive...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 15, 20152 min read
Reaching a Milestone of 100 Years
By GAIL MIYASAKI Happy birthday to you! A shout-out to Hisano “Mary” Furukawa Kudo of Huntington Beach, who celebrated her 100th birthday...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 12, 20157 min read
INTO THE NEXT STAGE: James Evicted from ‘Big Brother’; Ratings Plummet
On this season of CBS’s “Big Brother,” “double eviction night” has had horrible consequences for players not in the dominant alliance....
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 11, 20155 min read
RAMBLINGS FROM THE SON OF A PAPER SON: Bill Saito — An Extraordinary Life
In The Rafu every week you might see an ad about estate planning. In the ad, a man is looking at what appears to be his daughter. That...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 8, 20155 min read
The Horse and I
By IKU KIRIYAMA Following the service for George “Horse” Yoshinaga in the Fukui Chapel on Aug. 27, we stepped into the lobby to have...
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Rafu Shimpo
Sep 3, 20154 min read
THROUGH THE FIRE: High Sierra High
By BILL WATANABE During World War II, my father was on the garbage detail at Manzanar. You would think this is a pretty dirty job and no...
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