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.