The cartoon's production coordinator, Colleen Murakami, and the company's vice president, Joel Kuwahara, are both Japanese American. Board member Lily Chang is a Chinese American. Advertisement ...

By all appearances, Sam Shigeru Goto lived the life of a typical Seattleite. A second-generation Japanese American, he and his wife, Dee, raised two girls in their Mercer Island home, and he ...

In 2018, The North American Post, Seattle’s oldest Japanese-language newspaper, printed the final strip of Seattle Tomodachi, a comic created by Sam Goto. Goto was a second generation Japanese ...

It was the first Japanese production based on Tom and Jerry, although the series remains one of the most popular American-based cartoons in Japan, alongside Peanuts and Wacky Races.

It seems that at long last, the Japanese and American traditions of animation are finally coming together, and hopefully, they can create some fantastic revivals for properties like Tom and Jerry.