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The Minami Tamaki law firm has a long history of fighting for the rights of people of color, women, immigrants, marginalized people, and...

By GUY AOKI As a columnist who covered the Scott Brunton/George Takei controversy in my “Into the Next Stage” column (“Uh-Oh…,” Nov. 16,...

In the past few weeks, we lost two Nisei giants. On the surface, the two couldn’t have been more different. Jimi Yamaichi was an...

Antonio Villaraigosa and George Nakano By GEORGE NAKANO Antonio Villaraigosa is the only gubernatorial candidate to demonstrate...

By CAMRYN HAMAGUCHI Dear JA Basketball Community: Isn’t it crazy how far we’ve come? To most outsiders, this community might not mean...

Scott Watanabe as Tatsuo Kimura, George Takei as Ojii-chan, Jordan Goodsell as Hakujin, Elena Wang as Kei Kimura, and Ethan Le Phong as...

By ELIZABETH FARRIS (Editor’s note: Following is the 2017 winner in the English language/adult category of the Imagine Little Tokyo Short...

By GWEN MURANAKA Dad has three cats. This is a new development in his life, and a welcome one. For his daughter, this has been a strange...

By EVA YAMAMOTO A few days following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt Administration initiated a series of actions that...

The Year of the Dog enters with confidence and boundless energy. Picture a German shepherd puppy filled with so much enthusiasm that she...

2017 was an insane year. Psycho-in-Chief (his name does not deserve to be mentioned in these pages) and his racist Repuglican...

First Prize, Poem, College Miya Eberlein UCLA Sophomore (2016-17 Academic School Year) Growing up Japanese American, I knew camp did not...

First Prize, Poem, High School Tamara Sato Punahou School, Honolulu Junior (2016-17 Academic School Year) Seventy six years ago we were...

First Place, Essay, College Kenneth Kitahata Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Freshman (2016-17 Academic School Year) My journey to learn...

First Prize, Essay, High School Javier Herrera Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego Junior (2016-17 Academic School Year) Japanese American...

(Editor’s note: The following is the winning entry in the youth category of the 2017 Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest held by the...

Translated by Tiffany Tanaka (Editor’s note: Following is the winner in the Japanese language category of the 2017 Imagine Little Tokyo...

Yukio Kawaratani leaving Tule Lake in 1946 with sisters (from left) Fumiko, Tomiko and Yoshiko. By YUKIO KAWARATANI The World War II...

OK, now I’ve heard everything. It’s enough that for the past few years, we’ve had to grit our teeth over white and black actors playing...

Sakura Intermediate Care Facility resident Takako Morita (center) with her family at a recent birthday celebration. This statement is...