Former State Sen. Yee Sentenced to Five Years’ Imprisonment for Racketeering, Conspiracy
Leland Yee filed to run for mayor of San Francisco in 2010. SAN FRANCISCO – Former State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), 67, was...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 7, 20161 min read
Laugh for Lives to Benefit Donor Program
Paul Ogata SAN FRANCISCO — Laugh for Lives returns on Friday, March 11, from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 6, 20161 min read
‘Reclaiming Tohoku’ Screening at JCCCNC
SAN FRANCISCO — A special film screening showing how the people of Tohoku are building a bright future for themselves five years after...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 6, 20163 min read
Commemoration of 3/11 in S.F. Japantown (UPDATED)
SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday, March 11, at 6 p.m., the San Francisco Japantown community will host a commemorative gathering to reflect and...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 4, 20162 min read
NAPABA Applauds Obama’s Judicial Nomination
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Feb. 25 announced the nomination of Judge Lucy H. Koh to serve on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 3, 20164 min read
‘The Boy and The Beast’ Opens in U.S. Theaters Nationwide March 4
A scene from Mamoru Hosoda’s “The Boy and the Beast.” (Courtesy of Funimation Entertainment) PR Newswire Funimation Entertainment...
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Rafu Shimpo
Mar 2, 20161 min read
‘Raising Awareness and Fostering Acceptance in Our Nikkei Families’ at MVBT
Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka in a scene from Lina Hoshino’s documentary “In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church.”...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 28, 20166 min read
Reflections on Day of Remembrance
Yong Soo Lee (center), a surviving “comfort woman,” was welcomed by supporters at San Francisco City Hall last year. Pictured with her...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 26, 20168 min read
San Jose Day of Remembrance Focuses on ‘Wartime Hysteria’
Members of Nihonmachi Outreach Committee and Silicon Valley JACL carried banners during a candlelight procession from on the SJSU campus....
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 26, 20162 min read
‘Only Yesterday’ Opening in U.S. (UPDATED)
It’s 1982, and Taeko (Daisy Ridley) is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 24, 201611 min read
Center for Asian American Media Announces Programming for CAAMFest 2016
SAN FRANCISCO – The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) announces that CAAMFest will take place March 10-20 in the San Francisco Bay...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 22, 20161 min read
‘Call to Action: LGBTQ Issues Post-Marriage Equality’
SAN FRANCISCO — Tadaima, a Japanese American gathering of LGBTQ and allies, presents a panel discussion exploring the issues facing the...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 20, 20161 min read
‘Topaz Stories’ at Berkeley MUC
Registration and refreshments from 9:30 to 10 a.m.; program and Q&A from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Speakers: Frank Kami and Yaeko Kami Yedlosky,...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 18, 20163 min read
‘Valley of the Heart’ at The Stage in San Jose
Lakin Valdez (Benjamin Montaño), Christina Chu (Hana Yamaguchi), Melanie Arii Mah (Thelma “Teruko” Yamaguchi), Rafael Toribio (Kurogo),...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 12, 20163 min read
JCCCNC Announces Cultural Heritage Fund
The JCCCNC was incorporated in 1973 as a nonprofit organization to preserve and promote the Japanese and Japanese American cultural...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 12, 20162 min read
Ainu Showcase at S.F. Tribal & Textile Art Show
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ainu are an indigenous group of peoples from the Hokkaido region of Japan and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 11, 20161 min read
Enomoto Services Set for March 5
SACRAMENTO — A celebration of a life of love and service will be held for Jerry Enomoto (1926-2016) on Saturday, March 5, at 1:30 p.m. at...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 10, 20163 min read
NLF to Present Annual Theater Show
SAN FRANCISCO — Nihonmachi Little Friends, a community-based Japanese bilingual and multicultural nonprofit childcare organization, is...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 10, 20163 min read
‘Nihonmachi: The Place to Be’ Returning to S.F.
Produced by the Los Angeles-based Grateful Crane Ensemble and presented by the JCCCNC, “Nihonmachi: The Place to Be” is written by San...
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Rafu Shimpo
Feb 10, 20162 min read
S.J. Community Leader Shin Sanada Dies at 72
SAN JOSE — Shinzui “Shin” Sanada of Gilroy, a leader in San Jose’s Japanese American community, died in the early morning hours of Feb. 3...
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