Sumiye “Florence” Murakami peacefully passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 94 on Aug. 1. She was born on May 7, 1920 in Newcastle, Calif., and was interned during WWII at Heart Mountain and Tule ...

Growing up near San Jose’s Japantown, Michael was surrounded by dozens of uncles and aunts, and 34 Okagaki and Saito first cousins. His Auntie Janet taught Michael how to fish; his Uncles Calvin and ...

One such individual was Hung Wai Ching, one of the founders of the Varsity Victory Volunteers and advocate for the creation of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Born in 1905 in Honolulu to Chinese ...

Sonia Prasad Quesada found a unique way to thank a departed ancestor for contributions to her life as well as the country and to pay tribute to the struggles her grandfather faced in the early 1900’s ...

A diminutive woman physically (she was 5 foot 1 and 90 pounds), Oto left a big legacy in Sacramento. From her 14-hour-a-day work ethic to her extensive work as a community volunteer. Oto became famed ...

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Rinban Bob Oshita in his sermon talked about how the bombing personally affected him when he visited the Hiroshima Peace Park museum and saw the atrocities of artifacts and photos of the sufferings of ...

Tetsuo “Tek” Ueda, 87, of Salinas, passed away peacefully from cancer on Dec. 9, 2019. Born on Oct. 27, 1932 in Indio, Calif., Tek grew up in the San Gabriel Valley area and lived in El Monte, Calif.

Despite the difficulties they faced, he said, “This generation said, ‘I’m not regretful I came to the U.S. They endured, they persevered, and they survived.” Directed by the Japanese poet Toshi ...

Irene Hirano Inouye, the widow of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, died April 7 after an extended illness, according to the U.S.-Japan Council. Hirano Inouye, born in 1948, was the president of the ...

Nakagawa is an author, film­maker, actor, historian, husband and father of two. Baseball, and sports in general, have been a large part of his family legacy. In 1993, he swam from Alcatraz to San ...

In early 1942, the U.S. Government decided that 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry most of them American citizens living along the West Coast, were a threat. They were arrested, deported, lost their ...