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(Published May 20, 2017) “You are soooo lucky!” I hear that a lot when it comes to my husband Eric. He has many talents and one of them...

Different people acknowledge Memorial Day in different ways. If you’re a young person, maybe it means nothing more than a chance to go to...

A lifetime later, Frank Kikuchi returns to visit the Manzanar site. (Courtesy Discover Nikkei) By AMY UYEMATSU On April 12, I interviewed...

As a cable TV cord cutter, I have a Channel Master DVR+, a digital video recorder that allows me to record TV shows that were broadcast...

I started to think about all the business-related books I’ve read over the years and realized it’s been quite a few. Some, like “Steve...

To anyone hopeful that a trove of negatives and prints photographed between 1949 and 1980 by the long-defunct Ninomiya Studio, formerly...

Beneath our feet, the seemingly solid fundament upon which Los Angelenos and all Southern Californians conduct our quotidian lives of...

2017 is the quarter-century mark for a couple of events that began in 1992. Nine days from now, it will be the 25th anniversary of a jury...

The symposium in Kanagawa featured (from left) Leslie Ito, Ken Russell and Wendy Takahisa, who discussed the impact culture has on...

Before you read further, you may want to Google “David Dao United Airlines video” just for context. If you haven’t already seen the video...

Note: There will be plot revelations in what follows. If you plan to view Paramount Pictures’ “Ghost in the Shell” and want to experience...

(Published March 25, 2017) When Shinzo Abe met Donald Trump last month he understood how to push the right buttons of praise, flattery...

“New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei” opened on Sunday, March 12, at the Japanese American National Museum. (Read J.K....

On a rainy Sunday, March 9, 2016, 216 people attended the Complementary Alternative Medicine Forum. It was very well received with...

By GEORGE TOSHIO JOHNSTON If you remember PBS’ 2007 “Most Honorable Son” — a documentary about Nebraska Nisei farmboy turned B-24 and...

As part of last month’s Hapa Japan Festival 2017 was a screening of a pair of documentaries I was very interested in viewing: “Fall Seven...

Apologies to Mr. Ed, but a horse is not always a horse, of course. What does that mean? Read on. Last column I wrote about the 89th...

When I served in the California State Assembly there was a time where it wasn’t good to be friends with then Controller John Chiang....

The 89th Academy Awards Show is now in the history books and more than anything else it will be remembered for the incorrect climactic...

Sisters Elaine Rillamas and Gwen Muranaka. Elaine passed away on Dec. 25, 2016. By GWEN MURANAKA A few weeks ago I flew to Hawaii to say...