No. 365 | BIWEEKLY ON THURS. MAY 7, 2020

P.O. BOX 15693, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 WWW.NICHIBEI.ORG (415) 673-1009 OFFICE (415) 673-1063 FAX JAPANTOWNS BRACE FOR ECONOMIC IMPACT OF VIRUS San Jose J-Town business closes PG. 3 May 7, 2020

REGIONAL/NATIONAL PG.4 REGIONAL/NATIONAL PG.4 REGIONAL/NATIONAL PG.6 FOOD PG.8 SPORTS PG.14

POSTMASTER: Please Do Not Delay Not Do Please POSTMASTER: TEA GARDEN’S FACELIFT BURGLARIES IN J-TOWN LIFE OF ACTIVISM FEEDING THE HUNGRY ATHLETES GIVE BACK 2 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • MAY 7 - 20, 2020 3 Perspectives Regional/National Organizing your genealogy files Deep breath In the midst of the global pandemic, waiting game continues for Bay Area J-Towns and also at Sunday service at our By TOMO HIRAI ness Association among the more Konko Spiritual Center in South Nichi Bei Weekly than 120 entities. The neighbor- San Francisco. As we breathe, Two historic ethnic enclaves in hood would have hosted its an- we pull oxygen into our body the Greater Bay Area are among nual Nikkei Matsuri April 26. through our mouths and noses. the communities that began May “I think we just have to bear it Do you take time during the having learned that they must for now,” Shiro Kubota, owner of day to appreciate this miraculous endure another month of shelter- Gombei in San Jose’s Japantown, process? in-place amid the ongoing corona- told the Nichi Bei Weekly in Japa- Without food or water, virus pandemic. Since temporar- nese. “I’m sure it’s even more dif- 深い (Fukai) means our bodies can survive ily shuttering most businesses ficult for people who need to pay “deep.” The left side of for many days, but we March 17, only a few essential rent.” this character indicates cannot survive even a few businesses, mostly restaurants, Kubota, who once owned sev- water and the right side minutes without air. continue to operate in San Fran- eral restaurants along with Gom- represents a baby coming Life may have begun cisco and San Jose’s Japantowns bei, said he was shuttering his out of a womb. in the ocean at least a folder, I use a template of the name binder, I separate the fami- as most of their businesses and eponymous Kubota restaurant (Iki) means billion years ago. Many San Francisco Japantown businesses such as the most common items. For Nikkei lies by generation. The sections 息 nonprofits remain closed. and focusing on Gombei for now. SHUTTERED AND ADAPTING BUSINESSES —­ “breath.” The top of this sea creatures filtered Hotel Buchanan (L) have boarded up their windows and doors since temporarily closing in light of the research, my template looks like typically contain vital records Citing his advanced age and that character represents a oxygen from the water shelter-in-place orders, while San Jose Japantown’s Santo Market (C) has adapted its business by only the image below: (birth, marriage, death), fam- Business Owners Attempt to he was lucky enough to find a nose, while the bottom through their gills. As the accpeting grocery orders through their take-out window. Yu-Ai Kai volunteer Darrell Asing (R) delivers ily group sheets, and important Hang On buyer for Kubota, the restaura- Theoretically, every docu- symbolizes a human earth changed through meals for the San Jose Japantown nonprofit, with mask and gloves. ment should be placed in one of documents. All of my loose pa- “There’s no one walking teur said he did not think it would photos by Kenji G. Taguma/Nichi Bei Weekly, Scott Nakajima Photography and June Tanaka/Nichi Bei Weekly heart. The air reaches our storms and earthquakes, around. It’s dead,” Ricky Oka- be worthwhile to keep both of his the folders. It doesn’t matter if pers which don’t require archival heart through our lungs land emerged and living you found a record on Ancestry. preservation go into heavy-duty, mura, co-owner of Benkyodo Co. Japantown locations. Even still, Francisco’s Japantown remains tions have converted their congre- lose 95 percent of its income,said and nose. creatures evolved to in San Francisco’s Japantown, he said Gombei only saw about relatively deserted, there are lines gate lunch programs to be pick-up Paul Osaki, its executive director. Camp records. Census re- com or FamilySearch.org, or you legal-sized folders with dividers As you know, the world breathe oxygen with their cords. Death certificates. Pedi- have an original document, it still and arranged by surname. These Fukai Iki told the Nichi Bei Weekly over the a quarter of the customers it nor- out the door for Nijiya Market. only and have bolstered their in- The organization generates its has been in chaos because lungs instead of gills. phone. The 100-plus-year-old con- mally would. Similarly, Mark Santo, owner home delivery services. Although revenue through program fees, gree charts. Photographs. Pro- needs to be filed. files contain items that I haven’t of the coronavirus. People calligraphy by It was not an easy task, bate files. At some point, you If you keep a family tree on one yet scanned, notes on a particular fectioner temporarily closed after “Everyone in Japantown is do- of Santo Market in San Jose, remainingactive, these organiza- memberships, rental fees and are trying hard to protect Rev. Masato and only some species the shelter-in-place orders were ing their best to support each said customers continue to shop tions still feel the fiscal impact of fundraisers, which all have suf- will realize that you have an of the digital sites, you probably family or research interest, and Kawahatsu themselves. Many of you survived this transition issued. other,” Kubota said. “We need to for basic groceries even after the shelter-in-place orders. fered since the pandemic closed ever-growing collection of family attach documents right there. files which are too big to fit into may be isolated in your through the harsh history documents. Do you have It’s fairly simple to attach a docu- the binders. The binders on my Although the business could hang in there and stay healthy.” he closed the store’s interior to Steve Ishii, executive director the center. homes. Some of you have lost Ice Ages and hot desert-like have continued to operate as an Still, some business owners customers. He now takes orders of Kimochi, said many of his orga- “A community center involves a filing system that works? Or do ment to a specific person on your bookshelf hold 8.5” x 11” pages. your jobs, others have closed their temperatures for years on end. you have a disorganized mess of Ancestry.com or MyHeritage.com They don’t, however, fit standard “essential business,” Okamura have already fallen victim to the from a side window in the build- nization’s fundraisers were social, people interacting with people. businesses, and some people The coronavirus is very deadly said he decided to close because stalled economy. The Japantown ing. “It was that or shut complete- including the annual basketball And so when that can’t happen, unlabeled items? Perhaps you tree. It’s also important to down- Japanese paper, which is closer to might have lost family members to people who have respiratory use the “stack of papers on the load each document you find on- 8.25” x 11.75” or legal documents there were no customers. With Business Association, on its Face- ly because we were not going to and golf tournaments. The teriyaki it changes everything for us,” because of the virus. My wife problems. It is crucial at this time local residents instructed to stay book page, posted April 27 that interact with the general public,” burger booth at the recently-can- Osaki said. While Osaki said his dining room table” filing system. line, and save to your computer, from the U.S., which are usually Alice and I are also staying home to remember and appreciate all Or, the “stick it in one folder on and/or print for your paper files. 8.5” x 14”. home except to buy essentials longtime mainstay Banana Crepe Santo said. celed cherry blossom festival ac- community center can’t funda- during the lockdown. the hard work our bodies and and the city’s tourism industry in San Jose would permanently your computer desktop” method. You can simply download the There are plenty of books counted for what would have been mentally function with the social During World War II, many lungs do for us everyday. We tanked by the pandemic, San close May 2. According to NBC The only method of organiz- documents straight into the sur- about organizing your genealogy Nonprofits Continue 20 percent of the organization’s an- distancing rules in place, the or- people of Japanese ancestry in may struggle to stay inside, but Francisco’s Japantown is seeing Bay Area, Martie Suzuki, the ganization has attempted to instill ing your genealogy files worth name folders. files. “Organize Your Genealogy” to Operate nual fundraising. Canada, America and Peru were by reducing our physical contact only a fraction of its regular foot business’ owner, had been look- a sense of community over social using is the one YOU will follow. It’s also important to label your by Drew Smith is available on The two Japantowns also are Jennifer Masuda, executive di- sent to incarceration camps. with other people, we are helping traffic. ing to sell the shave ice and crepe media during its closure. If you try some fancy system documents in a way that makes Amazon Kindle, Rakuten Kobo home to a number of nonprofits rector of Yu-Ai Kai,had canceled Everyone was allowed to bring to save the lives of those with What normally would have shop, but the pandemic dried up serving the region’s Japanese the organization’s golf tournament “We always knew that at some and give up after a few weeks, it sense to you. My preference or paperback. “Organizing Ge- only two suitcases. They were poor health. Let us continue to been a busy month with the annu- any potential buyers. American community. While se- and postponed its annual Nihon- point we would have to tap into this wasn’t worth your time to begin is to begin each label with the nealogy Research Using Archival sent to isolated parts of the take action, by limiting the time al cherry blossom festival, only 30 Community members gath- nior service organizations Kimo- machi Run. Meanwhile, Masuda virtual Japanese American com- with. What you need to create is surname, followed by the given Principles” by Nancy Loe, is an e- country, far from any cities or we spend outside our homes or so businesses among the more ered to drive by the business to chi, Inc. and Yu-Ai Kai Japanese said she had closed her organiza- munity and that we would need a system by which you can find name, middle name if there is book available through the Sassy towns. to necessary trips to grocery than 250 were listed as “open” in say farewell to Suzuki on his last American Community Senior tion’s senior center, which nor- to really start focusing on com- Jane Website: https://www.sassy- the records quickly. I generally one, date, location, and type of They spent four to five years stores and short walks. Let us the daily updates published by the day. Suzuki did not respond to in- Service remain open to provide mally generates revenue through ing up with different programs organize all of my research (both document. For example, a census janegenealogy.com. of their lives in cramped and spend time inside knowing we Japan Center Malls. Likewise, in quiries at press time. services, especially their meal rental fees and programs. and activities,” Osaki said of the paper and digital) by surname. record label might be “Okazaki, Regardless of what method extremely minimal living spaces are helping our community and San Jose’s Japantown, only about Still others have managed to programs for seniors, their in- The Japanese Cultural and increasingly spread out Japanese Other researchers might orga- Ichimaru, 1920, Santa Maria CA, you choose, keeping organized with their family members and world become stronger in the two dozen businesses are listed stay busy during the pandemic. person programs and events have Community Center of Northern nize by date or type of item. My Federal Census.” You can cer- will make your genealogy jour- without many activities to occupy long run. Let us practice deep as “open” by the Japantown Busi- Okamura noted that, while San been canceled. Both organiza- California in San Francisco may (continued on page 15) system might not work for you, tainly make the labels as detailed ney much more productive. their time. breathing often, every day with but it does work for me. as you want, but be consistent. Compared to that, our situation wholehearted appreciation. It’s even helpful to have a master Linda Harms Okazaki is a is much easier. I know that many Digital Files list of all your terminology. Rather professional genealogist who is people are struggling to fill their Rev. Masato Kawahatsu is a Sacramento’s ACC Care Center reports single COVID-19 case Start with a master folder for than having DC, Death Cert, and past president of the California time, even if they are working minister at the Konko Church By TAKESHI NAKAYAMA contact tracing to identify people surfaces throughout our facility. only one was diagnosed on April cans in 1972 to improve the qual- genealogy, which contains one Death Certificate as different la- Genealogical Society. She from home or teaching their kids of San Francisco and Konko Nichi Bei Weekly the staff member came in close We provide the maximum level 9, 2020, and she has been asymp- ity of life for elders needing con- folder for Mom’s family, one fold- bels for the same document type, specializes in Japanese American at home. I would like to share Center of South San Francisco, Contributor contact with ... We also initiated of care and protection to our resi- tomatic.” valescent care, according to its er for Dad’s family, one folder for pick one and stick with it. Some records. If you have a genealogical something you can think about who teaches shodo (Japanese An employee at the ACC Care notification to Sacramento Coun- dents and staff.” Staff members have been tak- Website. Spouse’s family, and one folder labels are easiest spelled out, question which might be answered when at home. calligraphy). He can be reached at Center in Sacramento tested posi- ty Public Health and California ing residents outside for sun- At that time, many seniors ex- for Other (all those genealogy such as Koseki Tohon or Koseki in this column, send an e-mail to I have been teaching about the [email protected] or (415) tive for COVID-19 in early April, Department of Public Health.” Residents, Staff Coping Well shine walks and providing indi- perienced social and language items that aren’t specific to a fam- Translation or Kakocho. Other re- [email protected]. The importance of practicing deep 517-5563. The views expressed announced the facility’s adminis- People who carry the CO- Melanie Segar, chief opera- vidualized activities to keep them isolation in nursing homes, where ily surname, such as blank tem- searchers label their files differ- views expressed in the preceding breathing. We practice breathing in the preceding column are not trator Tamara Kario on April 10 VID-19 virus but show no symp- tions officer at ACC Senior Ser- busy, she noted. “Our volunteers residents and their caregivers plates, general information, bibli- ently. They may begin the label column are not necessarily those of during my martial arts and shodo necessarily those of the Nichi Bei in an e-mail sent to residents and toms “present a unique challenge vices, stated via e-mail: “Overall … have sewn cloth masks for were concerned about a lack of ographies, etc.). You might have with a date or with a location. Just the Nichi Bei Weekly. (Japanese calligraphy) classes, Weekly. families of the patients. to ACC and facilities like ours our residents and staff have been staff and residents who are now familiar foods and an inability to other folders you want to create, pick what works for you and be “This employee has been com- worldwide,” Kario stated. “We are coping well with the pandemic. wearing them daily. Everyone is communicate with care staff. In perhaps Daughter-in-Law’s fam- consistent. a publication of the pletely asymptomatic, showing not alone in this battle but rest as- We have a very engaged, caring working together to get through response, ACC explored oppor- ily or Friend’s family. In addition to labeling your no signs of fever, cough, body sured that we have a dedicated staff that goes out of their way to this very difficult time.” tunities to provide quality care for Within Mom’s, Dad’s, and files, it’s also a good idea to write aches, or breathing difficulties,” and well-trained staff caring for take care of individuals and their ACC Care Center currently individuals in need of placement, Spouse’s folders, I create a folder a citation for each document. Sustaining Sponsor: The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation she stated. “The last time this your loved ones.” family members. Though family has 84 residents, of whom 14 and also developed critical social for EACH surname I’m research- Even if you don’t follow the for- GENERAL INQUIRIES: [email protected] employee was in our facility was ACC’s rigorous admissions, members are not permitted in- are Japanese, Segar said. Asians services ranging from senior nu- ing. All items pertaining to a spe- mal citations of “Chicago Manual MAILING ADDRESS: OFFICE ADDRESS: P.O. Box 15693 1832 Buchanan Street, Suite 207 MEMBERSHIP: [email protected] on April 2, 2020, reporting that a surveillance, and monitoring poli- person visits at this time, staff are make up 62 percent of the resi- trition to cultural arts classes for cific surname are placed in that of Style” or “Evidence Explained” San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94115 facilitating Skype calls to loved dents, 27 percent are white, 7 seniors who were alone all day. ADVERTISING: [email protected] family member had symptoms of cies will remain, she continued. folder. When a woman marries, by Elizabeth Shown Mills, you COVID-19.” “The only people who come into ones and we even have some win- percent are African Americans, In 1983, the community start- OFFICE: (415) 673-1009 FAX / OFFICE: (415) 673-1063 [email protected] her pre-marriage documents stay should know where each item CLASSIFIEDS / OBITUARIES: “From the onset of the pan- our facility are essential person- dow visits on occasion.” and 4 percent are Hispanic. The ed a capital campaign to build in the original folder (usually fa- came from, such as the National EDITORIAL: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] demic, our goal has been to com- nel. At the front door, which is al- (ACC Senior Services pro- average age of the residents is 89, a much-needed nursing home. ther’s surname), but documents Archives in College Park, MD., municate regularly and transpar- ways locked, they sign in, report vides senior living and assisted and they range in age from 59 to ACC Care Center opened its $1.50 to $2.50, plus shipping & handling. Visit: www.nichibei.org/nichibeiweekly/backissues/ during her marriage stay with the your auntie’s personal collection, BACK ISSUES: ently, so that you will know we any changes in their health, and living and memory care services 102 years old. doors in 1987, and remains the spouse’s surname folder. Each or a specific database online. The Nichi Bei Weekly (USPS 004-607) is published every other Thursday, to ACC Care Center and sev- largest program at ACC Senior POSTMASTER Nichi Bei Weekly are doing all we can to protect have their temperature taken.” time a new surname is discov- Send address the first Friday in April, and January 1 by the Nichi Bei Foundation, 1832 our residents and staff,” she ex- The facility has ample supplies eral other facilities serving older Asian Community Center Services, serving seniors at its PO Box 15693 Buchanan Street, #207, San Francisco CA 94115. Application to mail at ered, simply add a new surname Paper Files changes to: San Francisco, CA 94115 plained. “ACC Care Center has of personal protective equipment adults in the Sacramento area). The Asian Community Center present site and also offering a folder. As with digital files, I organize Periodicals Postage prices paid at San Francisco CA. been preparing for weeks for ex- (PPE), Kario related. “We now As of May 1, no residents have of Sacramento Valley Inc. was Meals on Wheels program, trans- It’s important to take a few paper files by surname. Each sur- actly this type of incident. At 1:45 require wearing masks for all been diagnosed or tested positive established as a nonprofit public portation services, respite care, more steps to truly organize name has a binder with acid free ON THE COVER: Banana Crepe owner Martie Suzuki (left) with wife Jeanie and son Jeff watch a parade of supporters p.m. yesterday, we began our residents and staff and continue for COVID-19, Segar said. “Of benefit corporation by Japanese and nursing home and assisted your files. Within each surname sheet protectors. Within each sur- who came by to bid him and his store farewell May 2 in San Jose’s Japantown. photo by Scott Nakajima response protocol, starting with to sanitize equipment and other the 200-plus employees at ACC, Americans and Chinese Ameri- living services.

2 Nichi Bei Weekly | MAY 7 - 20, 2020 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 | Nichi Bei Weekly 3 4 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 • REGIONAL/NATIONAL • • REGIONAL/NATIONAL • MAY 7 - 20, 2020 5 Tea garden undergoes $2M restoration Burglaries in S.F.’s J-Town during shelter-in-place NPS awards $3.1M in grants to Sacramento judoka to receive kunsho By TOMO HIRAI ilant,” he said in an e-mail to the Nichi A GARDEN’S Nichi Bei Weekly Bei Weekly. “Always be aware of your preserve Nikkei confinement sites On April 29, the Japanese Games,” the consulate said in a government announced the statement. HISTORY ­— The San Francisco Police Depart- surroundings and try not to be on your WASHINGTON —The Na- gram aims to teach future gen- (Left): Makoto recipients of the 2020 spring It praised Takeuchi for hav- ment reported a pair of burglaries phone in public places.” tional Park Service has award- erations about the injustice of Hagiwara, former conferment of Japanese deco- ing “helped to define the qual- within the Japantown neighborhood “Since there is less foot traffic, ed more than $3.1 million in the World War II incarceration proprietor, in rations. ity of judo in the United States since the March 17 shelter-in-place or- people should continue to be aware grants to preserve and interpret of Japanese Americans “and to the Japanese Sacramento, Calif. resdent through her administrative ders went into effect. The SFPD told of what is going on around them, former World War II Japanese inspire a commitment to equal Tea Garden. Kuniko Takeuchi, 80, who roles in USA Judo, serving the Nichi Bei Weekly both cases are as crime has not completely disap- American confinement sites. justice under the law. Success- The pagoda in resides within the Consulate on multiple subcommittees still open for investigation. peared,” Brandon Quan, operations The grants will fund the “pres- ful project proposals are cho- January 2019. General of Japan in San Fran- including promotion and judg- The first incident occurred April 4 at manager of the Japantown Community ervation, restoration and educa- sen through a competitive pro- cisco’s jurisdiction, will receive Kuniko ing, and serving as a USA Judo Hemlock and Laguna streets when po- Benefit District, said in an e-mail to the tion” of projects throughout the cess that requires applicants to courtesy of The the Order of the Rising Sun, Sil- Takeuchi ­ National Kata Judge.” lice responded to an alarm at 4:50 a.m. Nichi Bei Weekly. “Drivers should still country. “The 22 projects fund- match the grant award with $1 Hagiwara Collection, ver Rays, for her commitment Additionally, “Takeuchi has Police found the front door damaged not leave items in plain view in their ed will help tell the stories of in non-federal funds or ‘in-kind’ courtesy of the San to judo and promoting friend- positions for the U.S. Women’s served as a judo instructor in and items scattered around the interi- cars, despite the drop in car break-ins. the more than 120,000 Japanese contributions for every $2 they Francisco Recreation ship between Japan and the national judo team at multiple Sacramento since 1968, pro- or. The second incident occurred April To be on the safe side, businesses that Americans, two-thirds of whom receive in federal money.” and Park Department United States. international competitions be- moting judo alongside sports- 12 at Sutter and Buchanan streets have closed and are vacant may want were U.S. citizens, imprisoned Congress established the pro- The former coach of the U.S. tween the years of 1986 and manship, etiquette and tech- at approximately 4:46 a.m. Police re- to board up their buildings. They may by the U.S. government during gram in 2006, authorizing a total Women’s National Judo Team 1993, and as technical staff nical skills to her students for sponded to a report of a burglary. The also want to touch base with organiza- World War II following the at- of $38 million in funding for the held “coaching and technical for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic over 50 years.” owner of the business contacted police tions like Paint the Void, which con- tack on Pearl Harbor by the na- life of the program. Today’s an- after the security company monitoring nects artists with businesses to paint tion of Japan in 1941,” the NPS nouncement brings the current his business informed him of the dam- their plywood boards.” stated. award total to more than $32 aged front door. Akimune Yamamoto, owner of Ta- The “Japanese American million. SoCal residents to receive kunsho koyaki Yamachan and Mochill Mochi- Confinement Sites grants may The 22 new projects selected The Japanese government safety as well as tourists visiting Merchants Remain Vigilant donut, also expressed concerns about be awarded to projects associ- to receive funds in fiscal year announced the recipients of its the neighborhood, and is Although the San Francisco Chroni- By DEREK TAHARA Hagiwara was credited with inventing safety inside the Japan Center Malls in ated with the 10 War Relocation 2020 are listed below. For more spring 2020 decorations April 29 managed by the LAPD and cle reported March 31 shelter-in-place Nichi Bei Weekly the fortune cookie during the tea garden the evening, as only a fraction of the Authority centers established in information, visit https://www. (Japan Standard Time). the Little Tokyo Public Safety orders have led to a decrease in crime The Japanese Tea Garden in San period, but his family does not view this businesses remain open. 1942 and more than 40 addition- nps.gov/subjects/internment/in- Two people from the Association.” rates, Richard Hashimoto, president Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has a to be the case. Dawkins, who described “Although everything is closed, al confinement sites.” The pro- dex.htm. Consulate General of Japan in Following the 2011 Great of the Japantown Merchants Associa- storied history. Created as part of the the fortune cookie as a “Japanese sen- the doors to the malls are still open,” Los Angeles’ jurisdiction were East Japan Earthquake, Kito tion, observed that crimes have still California Midwinter International Ex- bei,” said the family believed it was in- he said in Japanese. No instances of JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANTS selected to receive the Order of supported the Little Tokyo been reported in the neighborhood. position of 1894, the fair solicited pavil- vented in Japan, but Hagiwara started vandalism or burglary, however, have the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Public Safety Association’s Additionally, he remained concerned • Alameda Free Library, California tional Museum, Calif. — “Japanese ions, including some Japanese pavilions, the fortune cookie in the tea garden as a been reported from businesses within Rays. disaster relief fundraising over the recent trend of anti-Asian hate the malls since March 17. — “The Impact of Japanese American National Museum which were run by George Marsh, an “novelty.” Hagiwara promoted green tea — Nancy Kyoko Oda, 74, of Van Nancy Kyoko Oda (left) and efforts. crimes stemming from President Don- The SFPD asks anyone with infor- American Incarceration on Alam- Camp Digitization Project” ‘Oriental’ arts commodity importer. One at the garden, which is why tea is served eda, California — the First Califor- Multiple sites. $286,508 Nuys, Calif., is being recognized Brian Kito In 2008, he helped found the ald Trump calling the novel coronavi- of the Japanese pavilions included a tea there. He requested that Benkyodo, the mation regarding these incidents to nia Community Removed under • Japanese American Na- for her “contribut(ions) to annual Los Angeles Tanabata rus a “Chinese virus.” contact the police at (415) 575-4444 or — All War tional Museum, Calif. — garden, according to Douglas Dawkins, confectionery in San Francisco’s Japan- Executive Order 9066” “Sutra enhancing the social welfare advocates led by Oda and other Festival during Nisei Week, “The advice I would give merchants text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text Relocation Authority sites. $139,220 and Bible: Faith and Japanese the great-great grandson of Makoto town, make the fortune cookies to serve of Japanese American society community leaders, the city “which after the 2011 earthquake is to visit their store or restaurant reg- with SFPD. Tips may be made anony- • Asian Americans Advancing American World War II Incarcera- Hagiwara, a Japanese immigrant who at the tea garden. Justice Los Angeles (Vigilant Love), Multiple sites. $245,382 and promoting the friendly of Los Angeles designated the provided support to the Tohoku ularly during the closure and to be vig- mously. tion”— came to America in 1887, and served as “It’s accepted in anything that comes Calif. — “Solidarity Arts Fellow- • Japanese Cultural Center relationship between Japan and former Tuna Canyon Detention region and the city of Sendai.” the garden’s proprietor. out that basically, Makoto Hagiwara and ship” — Manzanar incarcera- of Hawaii, Hawai‘i — “Remem- the United States,” the consulate Kito has been invited by tion site, Inyo County, California. Station a historic cultural The tea garden is currently undergo- the Japanese Tea Garden introduced the bering the Past to Change the said in a statement. monument. Two-thousand the Pat Brown Institute of Soy and Tofu Fest, Japanese Heritage Night with the A’s canceled $47,518 Future” — Honouliuli, internment ing the restoration of its famous pagoda fortune cookie to America,” Dawkins • Center for Independent site (U.S. Army), Ewa, Honolulu Brian Kito, 63, of Los Japanese, German, and Italian Public Affairs at California structure, which was a part of the 1915 said. Due to shelter-in-place orders and oth- the Major League Baseball season, the Documentary, Mass. — “Baseball County, Hawai‘i; Sand Island Deten- Angeles, is being acknowledged immigrants and Japanese people State University Los Angeles — Multiple Panama-Pacific Exposition, Dawkins The tea garden is unique, but not nec- er precautions to help limit the spread Oakland A’s has decided to cancel this Behind Barbed Wire” tion Camp, (U.S. Army), Honolulu for “promoting friendly relations taken from Peru were detained to give lectures to nearly 900 said. The restoration, a $2 million proj- essarily an authentic Japanese garden. sites. $208,945 County, Hawai‘i. $151,960 and mutual understanding at the site for several years “Southern California region law of COVID-19 to the general public, the year’s Japanese Heritage Night with the • City of Richmond, Calif. — • Michigan State University, ect, is in honor of the tea garden’s 125th The garden Hagiwara cared for was Nichi Bei Foundation’s board of direc- A’s, originally scheduled for May 22. Mich. — “Internment Archaeology between Japan and the United during World War II. In 2014, enforcement officers on how anniversary, which occurred in January. “Roses and Thorns: Sustaining an example of a Japanese garden that tors, with input from the event organiz- While there is a possibility that the event Stories of Japanese American Digital Archive” — Kooskia Intern- States,” the statement said. Oda became the first president to improve community-based Dawkins, a Gosei ­— or fifth-generaion would be interesting to people who were ing committee, has canceled the 10th an- may be rescheduled later in the season, Lives in Richmond’s Miraflores ment Site (Department of Justice), Oda is the former president of the Tuna Canyon Detention policing, and has contributed Japanese American ­— told the Nichi Bei not Japanese, Dawkins said. Development” — Tanforan “As- Idaho County, Idaho; Minidoka of the San Fernando Valley Station Coalition, a nonprofit to the development as well nual Northern California Soy and Tofu those who purchased tickets to support sembly Center”, San Bruno, San incarceration site, Jerome County, Weekly in a phone interview that “Mako- “There’s the sense of the frame of the Festival scheduled for June 13. This has the Nichi Bei Foundation’s fundraiser Japanese American Community organization that was formed to as identification of potential to was brought in to run the tea garden, Mateo County, California; Topaz Idaho. $379,017 architecture, the posts, the cross-beams, been the Nichi Bei Foundation’s signa- will be refunded. incarceration site, Millard County, • National Japanese American Center and is the president preserve Tuna Canyon’s history. candidates from the Japanese following the Midwinter’s Fair.” and the vast majority of Japanese gar- ture fundraiser. The 11th annual Nichi Bei Night with Utah. $97,500 Historical Society, Calif. “War Relo- of Tuna Canyon Detention Under Oda’s leadership, the American community for law Hagiwara and his family lived at the dens in America don’t have much archi- “During this period of unprecedented the A’s, however, is still scheduled for • Colorado Preservation, Inc., cation Authority Incarceree Farm Station Coalition. She has been coalition developed a traveling enforcement positions.” tea garden while he served as its “pro- tecture,” said Kendall Brown, a profes- uncertainty because of the global coro- Colo. — “Amache Barrack- Labor Teacher Education Project” involved with the center since exhibit, entitled “Only the Oaks As the third-generation Aug. 3 until further notice. — Amache — Multiple sites. $156,018 prietor” and maintained it, Dawkins said. sor of Asian art history in the School of navirus pandemic, and the risks to our The Nichi Bei Foundation and Nichi Interior Interpretation” 1978 as a member. She served Remain,” which tells the story owner of Fugetsu-do, a Little “The deal with the city was a dollar a incarceration site, Prowers County, • The National World War Art at California State University, Long community — particularly our beloved Bei Weekly “is dedicated to continuing Colorado. $64,000 II Museum, La. — as president from 2011-2013, of the Tuna Canyon detainees. Tokyo confectionery, the year and they would take care of every- Beach. “Japanese and has continued to serve as oldest business in Little Tokyo, elders — we hope that you understand our mission to keep the Japanese Amer- • Eastern Sierra Interpretive As- American Experiences in World The exhibit has been shown thing out of their own pocket,” Dawkins Dawkins said the tea garden does fol- the necessity of this decision,” the orga- ican and Asian American community sociation, Calif. — “Relocation of War II Electronic Field Trip” — an officer of the center, which at 12 locations throughout the Kito has “contributed to the said. low some characteristics Japanese gar- nization said in a statement. “Since it’s a War Relocation Authority Staff Heart Mountain incarceration site, serves 1,000 families, ever since. U.S. West Coast. Under Oda’s preservation of Japanese connected, informed and empowered — Park County, Wyoming; Amache The Hagiwaras were an aristocratic dens have, including having “no straight inception in 2012, we are proud to have a mission all the more urgent given that Building Back to Manzanar Na- Following the Great East Japan leadership and the efforts of the traditions and the introduction family that “owned an extensive prop- lines” and there should be a different tional Historic Site” — Manzanar incarceration site, Prowers County, developed a community of vendors, ar- we have faced an entire month of isola- incarceration site, Inyo County, Calif. Colorado. $100,594 Earthquake, Oda “mobilized the coalition, in 2018 the city of Los of Japanese food culture to the erty in Yamanashi Prefecture and were view every time a person turns a corner. tisans, performers and chefs around the tion,” the organization continued. “We $44,152 • Poston Community Alliance, center and its organizations and Angeles installed street signs at U.S.” The shop “makes a range wealthy from the sake and silk trade,” While the garden is currently closed joy of soy. In addition to being a signature are striving to introduce new features • Fred T. Korematsu Institute, Calif. — “Poston Live: Its Les- youth groups in a major disaster the former detention station. of Japanese sweets, such as Dawkins said. because of the coronavirus, Tamara fundraiser for the Nichi Bei Foundation, in the Nichi Bei Weekly to help keep the Calif. — “Then They Came for Me” sons and Multicultural Legacy” relief fundraising effort that For nearly 30 years, Kito traditional mochi (rice cakes) — Multiple — Poston incarceration site, La Paz The family did not always have a posi- Aparton, the San Francisco Recreation the Northern California Soy and Tofu community engaged and active, while Traveling Exhibition raised $110,000 over one year.” has contributed “to the well- and manju (steamed cakes). tive experience in America, however, as and Parks Department’s deputy direc- sites. $247,540 County, Arizona. $50,075 In 2016, “Oda helped organize ... In recent years to encourage Festival has been a vehicle for communi- updating the community with the latest • Global Kids, Inc., New York — • San Francisco Bay Area Rapid being and safety of Little “they were kicked out of the tea garden tor of communications and public af- a fifth anniversary fundraising Tokyo through his leadership more Americans to enjoy ty-building and leadership development. news on the current health crisis.” “GRIT-Global Kids (G2K) Project” Transit, Calif. — “Tanforan Assem- (in 1901) because Mayor (James D.) fairs, said in an e-mail that construction “We hope that you may continue to For more information, visit: www. — Manzanar incarceration site, Inyo bly Center Exhibit” — Tanforan event to benefit orphans in in the Little Tokyo Public Japanese traditions, Fugetsu- Phelan wanted to install his brother-in- restrictions were lifted the week of April support such vendors, as can be found at nichibei.org or follow the organization County, Calif. $210,258 “Assembly Center,” San Bruno, San Japan.” Safety Association and various do has expanded its offerings • Go For Broke National Educa- Mateo County, California. $62,100 law as the concessionaire,” Dawkins 27, and they “expect the pagoda restora- www.soyandtofufest.org.” on Facebook: https://fb.com/nichibei or As a child of the U.S. community organizations,” to include new creations such said. According to Dawkins, his mother tion to be completed by the end of the tion Center, Calif. — “Unsung • Story Boldly, Calif. — “Digital concentration camps, Oda, a the consulate stated. He was as strawberry mochi filled with In addition, given the uncertainty with Twitter: @nichibei. — Mul- Tanako, who was Hagiwara’s great- year.” The city is funding 85 percent of Service: Preserving the Nisei Storytelling Workshops” Sansei, remains committed appointed vice president of peanut butter.” Cadet Nurse Corps” — Multiple tiple sites. $110,586 granddaughter, was the “last living per- the pagoda restoration project, Aparton sites. $28,481 • United Tribes Technical Col- to keeping the stories of the the association in 1991 and Since 1989, he has taught son in the tea garden.” She lived in the said. Nonprofits launch campaign for APA Heritage Month • Go For Broke National lege, North Dakota — “Fort Lincoln wartime incarceration alive. appointed president in 2001. manju-making to elementary tea garden until she was four years old Throughout the years, the tea garden Education Center, Calif. — “Valor Memorial Courtyard” — Fort Lin- As a student at the University As vice president of the school students annually at and was sent to the Topaz concentration has undergone repairs, Dawkins said. In accordance with the 30th anniver- cent tax deductible. The campaign is a in Confinement: Perspectives of coln Internment Camp (Department of California, Los Angeles, she association, Kito mobilized Little Tokyo’s Nishi Hongwanji sary of Asian Pacific American Heri- partnership of Asian Pacific Fund and the Japanese American Veterans of Justice), Burleigh County, North camp in Central Utah during World War “The fact that the tea garden is in — Multiple sites. Dakota. $190,133 translated “Tule Lake Stockade volunteers to form patrol teams. Buddhist Temple’s summer II. such good shape because it takes a lot tage Month, and amid the coronavirus AAPI Data, along with Asian Pacific Com- of World War II” Diary” written by her father, He also secured Los Angeles program ‘Saishin Dojo,’ and pandemic, philanthropic and nonprofit munity Fund, Korean American Commu- $96,729 • Visual Communications Media, “The family has progressed almost of maintenance, is really an indication • Historical Museum at Fort Calif. — Tatsuo Inouye, during World Police Department patrol cars to has led cooking classes at the leaders from around the country have nity Foundation of New York, and Asian “They Answered No-No: identically to the way Japanese Ameri- of the great love that the people of San Missoula, Mont. — “Fort Missoula Wayne Collins and the Renun- War II. In 2018, the UCLA join these teams. Japanese American Cultural and cans progressed starting off one way Francisco have for the tea garden,” he launched #GiveInMay, a giving campaign Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philan- Internment Camp Barracks As- ciants” — Tule Lake Segregation Asian American Studies Center In 1996, Kito, community Community Center.” and eventually, assimilating completely,” to Asian American and Pacific Islander thropy. sessment” — Fort Missoula intern- Center, Modoc County, California; said. ment site (Department of Justice), Crystal City Internment Site (Depart- published her translation online business volunteers and the Information about a Dawkins said. For more information about the cam- nonprofits. For more information about partici- as part of the Suyama Project. city of Los Angeles, “opened conferment ceremony will Donations made through Give In May pating nonprofits, and their eligibility re- Missoula County, Montana. $40,000 ment of Justice), Zavala County, The family was able to return the gar- paign, visit www.saveourpagoda.com or • Japanese American Na- Texas. $198,284 In June 2013, due to the the Little Tokyo Koban, which be provided in the future, the den after Phelan pushed them out. e-mail [email protected]. to nonprofit organizations are 100 per- quirements, visit giveinmay.org. persistence of a group of serves as a resource for public consulate stated.

4 Nichi Bei Weekly | MAY 7 - 20, 2020 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 | Nichi Bei Weekly 5 6 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 • REGIONAL/NATIONAL • • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • MAY 7 - 20, 2020 7 Q-and-A with longtime activist and mentor Alan Nishio Community Editor’s Note: This Q-and-A- experience that will benefit dealing with her own issues. ed when Barack Obama was format interview was originally you in future presentations. In addition to my graduate elected President, we are sad- Service scholarships awarded S.F. sakura festival honors senior volunteers posted on the Manzanar Com- work, I took on my Father’s dened to see Donald Trump mittee’s blog prior to the 2020 GK: One of your earliest gardening route as we had no and the rise of white nation- to Japanese American youth virtual Manzanar Pilgrimage. political actions was tak- savings and we owed money alists. What we must under- https://manzanarcommittee. ing part in the Free Speech for hospital bills. My Mom stand is that Trump’s base is org/2020/04/25/nishio-q Movement at UC Berkeley. worked at a minimum wage an increasingly smaller group. Looking back how did this job that did not cover the ex- You and I are old enough to re- By GLEN KITAYAMA influence the direction that penses we were incurring so I member when California was Alan Nishio, who is the you took in your life? had no choice to continue gar- the hot bed of anti-immigrant keynote speaker for our 2020 AN: The Free Speech dening on weekends to make fervor represented by Gov. Virtual Manzanar Pilgrimage, Movement had a tremendous ends meet. Pete Wilson and Proposition was awarded the Manzanar impact on my life because 187. Look at our state today as Committee’s 2017 Sue Kuni- it was the first time that I GK: In your oral history we are now a leader in defend- (From L to R): Agnes Sasaki, Dick (Digger) Sasaki, Grace Goto, Toshiko Takahashi and Al Nakahara tomi Embrey Award for his became involved politically. with NCRR, you mentioned ing immigrant rights. Nevada leadership during the Redress When the student strike was that your wife, Yvonne, has become a blue state and Movement in the 1980s, along called and picket lines were kept you grounded. How Arizona and Texas will soon The Senior Appreciation memorial project. “the right personality for this with his decades-long activ- formed, I found that I could did she do that? be joining them. We need the Brunch for San Francisco’s Prior to World War II, Dick’s volunteer work — outgoing, Misako Heather Ormiston (left) and Marcus Kwok-Chu Lo cherry blossom festival started family lived in Auburn, Wash. positive and pleasant demean- ism in the Japanese American Alan Nishio not be neutral. I either had to AN: Yvonne is the “rock” in impatience or young people community. He was involved file photo cross the picket line or join it. I our relationship. She is unas- like Sara to push us forward. more than three decades ago They were forcibly removed by or.” The San Francisco Nikkei Li- co-founder of MAD4Charity, to thank seniors in the local train to Pinedale Assembly Cen- in building the local chapter learned more about the issues suming and shies away from Look at the role that Greta ons announced in a statement a group that promotes aware- of the Asian American Politi- eloquent speaker? involved and then joined the the spotlight. She is a very Thunberg has played in ral- Japanese American community ter in Fresno, Calif., and then Toshiko Takahashi, the recipients of two $2,500 ness of and fundraises for social for their volunteer service. imprisoned in Tule Lake. Ag- Kimochi Inc. cal Alliance in the 1960s, and Alan Nishio: I am not sure strike. This experience was strong and assertive person lying against climate change scholarships to high school justice issues. She volunteers served as the first director about how eloquent I am, but one that forever moved me as who always supports me but and global warming. Each year, honorees are nes’ family moved from Gilroy Takahashi has been help- graduates who are going to col- at The Window, which serves nominated by senior centers to Reedley before they were im- ing twice a week at Kimochi’s of the UCLA Asian American after being voted shyest in I changed my major from ac- also gives very critical feed- lege. The Northern California the homeless in San Jose and at Studies Center in the 1970s. my class, I had made a con- counting to political science back about what I do and when GK: What advice do you and organizations. They re- prisoned in Poston, Ariz. After lunch program for 23 years. Cherry Blossom Community Mountain View’s Day Worker ceive certificates of commen- the concentration camps closed, She is Kimochi Home’s recep- As an educator, Nishio be- scious decision to try to be and never looked back! she thinks I get too focused give to people who say that Service Scholarship Program, Center, which works with the gan working at California more friendly and outgoing as on me rather than the work there’s nothing that we can dation from elected officials. Agnes’ family moved back to tionist, and feels the most re- which honors students of Japa- unemployed. Ormiston has tak- This year’s brunch, however, Reedley. The Sasakis are both warding experience of being a State University, Long Beach I knew that I would be start- GK: How did you begin at hand. Through the years, do to change society? nese descent, has been in exis- en several Advanced Placement after his tenure at UCLA, and ing high school and very few to get involved with other we have developed a relation- AN: The November elec- was canceled amid the corona- retired, Dick from Lawrence volunteer is “getting to know tence for 33 years. classes. virus pandemic. Livermore National Laborato- the seniors, seeing their smiles rose to the position of vice of my junior high classmates Asian Americans in the ship in which we both support tions represent a key moment The 2020 honorees are: • Marcus Kwok-Chu Lo is president of Student Services. would be attending Venice emerging Asian Ameri- the work of the other but also when we can all work together The 2020 honorees, repre- ries as a mechanical designer and the feeling of connection • Misako Heather Ormis- a graduating senior from Carm- senting the 33rd annual pro- and Agnes as a teacher. like they are long-time friends.” For most people, Alan’s contri- High as my junior high was in can Movement in the late share criticism and feedback, to change the direction of our ton is a graduating senior from el High School in Carmel, Calif. butions and accomplishments the Hamilton High School dis- 1960s? when called upon. I treasure society. We have all learned gram, are: As volunteers, they enjoy see- Takahashi was born in Gifu, Notre Dame High School in San He has a weighted grade point ing the seniors socialize and Japan and graduated from the in administration would be the trict and the only ones going to AN: During my graduate the relationship that we have from experience the truism of Jose. She has a weighted grade average of 4.04. His guardian is highlight of their careers. But Venice were about 30 students work at USC, I was working built together over the years. Margaret Mead’s quote: “Nev- Dick (Digger) and Agnes have something positive and Tokyo Biblical Seminary. She point average of 4.59. She is the James Lo, his uncle. Sasaki, Eden Japanese Se- fun to do. came to San Francisco to study in Nishio’s case, that’s just the who were being bused in from with a faculty member who er doubt that a small group daughter of Mari Shimizu and The graduating senior plans tip of the proverbial iceberg. Mar Vista as there was not a was starting a leadership GK: You’ve often deflect- of thoughtful, committed, nior Center English and earned her ac- Thomas Malay Ormiston of Los to attend New York University, The couple has volunteered Grace Goto, Sakura Kai Se- counting degree at the Grace Perhaps the highlight of closer junior high school that training center focused on ed credit for the leader- citizens can change the world. Altos, Calif. majoring in computer systems, Nishio’s story is his leader- would accept us because most Black and Latino community ship role that you played Indeed, it is the only thing at the Eden Japanese Senior nior Center Ball Secretarial College. She She has not yet decided which engineering and business fi- Center in San Lorenzo, Calif. Goto has volunteered at Saku- became an accountant for the ship role in the Little Tokyo of my classmates were from organizations, the Center in the Redress Movement. that ever has.” In fighting for college to attend, but plans to nance. People’s Rights Organization the Mar Vista Gardens Hous- for Social Action. When the In your view, how do we change, we usually do not see for 16 and 22 years, respec- ra Kai in El Cerrito, Calif., J-Sei, state of California and retired major in “psychology and neu- He has taken several Ad- tively. Dick helps with tables, the Berkeley Higashi Honganji after 20 years. (LTPRO) and the National ing Project. I forced myself to movement for Asian American achieve social change like the results of our work until roscience/history/performing vanced Placement classes. He Coalition for Redress/Repa- get out and meet people. awareness and empowerment Redress in society? much later. The redress cam- chairs and setting up the pub- Buddhist Temple and at Kaiser arts with emphasis in medicine has served as a United Way lic address system, as well as Permanente in Richmond. She Al Nakahara, Yu-Ai Kai rations (NCRR; now known I did not do much public was arising, I became involved AN: I don’t think that I have paign is an example of how and health care.” volunteer tax accountant and a as Nikkei for Civil Rights and speaking until after college. in helping form a chapter of deflected credit for my role society can change through replenishing supplies. Agnes was born in Sebastopol, Calif. Japanese American Com- Ormiston is the senior class youth group leader at Young- helps serve lunch and plays the and incarcerated at Granada munity Senior Services Redress). He was instrumen- I pushed myself to speak on the Asian American Political in redress as much as try to the work of a committed core vice president and an Advanced Nak Presbyterian Church. He tal in helping to keep NCRR various matters because of my Alliance. AAPA and many oth- focus on how NCRR worked of activists. piano to accompany the seniors (Amache) in Colorado during Nakahara has been help- Placement Scholar with dis- has volunteered at both the Big in singing Japanese songs. The World War II. She moved to ing once a month at the Yu- on track through his organiz- passion and commitment for er groups began meeting at as a collective in our decision tinction. She is a Reischauer Sur International Marathon and ing skills, providing his own seeking change and felt that the Center for Social Action. making and action. I think GK: What do you see as couple offers rides to people Richmond as a young girl and Ai Kai lunch program and Scholar studying with Stanford at the Monterey Bay Half Mara- who no longer drive, enabling worked at Mechanics Bank for as their landscaper and Boy perspective on matters, and public speaking was some- People working at the Center what made NCRR work is that the main challenges that we University faculty, a participant thon for the past four years. He ensuring that all voices were thing that I could contribute included Ron Hirano, Miya we were never focused on in- face today as we approach them to attend events. The Sa- 25 years in human resources. Scouts mentor. He retired af- in the Stanford CNI-X Clinical is the founder and president sakis have been active at the She has been on the Sakura Kai ter more than 50 years as a heard in the decision making. to the cause. I found the expe- Iwataki and the late Irene Hi- dividual recognition. Our soci- the 2020 Virtual Manzanar Neuroscience Immersion pro- of the Business and Entrepre- Nishio also served for many rience, while stressful, a great rano Inouye. ety too often focuses upon the Pilgrimage? Eden chapter of the Japanese board of directors for 40 years. licensed concrete contractor/ gram and a participant in the neurship Club at Carmel High American Citizens League as Goto has helped at the garage landscaper, and maintains the years as the board president opportunity for me to better “leader” of an organization and AN: The main challenge Brown University Engineering School, senior class president, of the Little Tokyo Service understand the topic and or- GK: How did your par- not on those who often do the is to understand the impor- board officers and bazaar vol- and bake sales and as a volun- senior organization’s grounds. Biomedical Systems, studying a member of the Carmel High unteers. Agnes is in the Bud- teer driver. She has been the Nakahara assists seniors who Center (LTSC), and he contin- ganize my thoughts on the ents react when you be- work that is not seen or recog- tance of this moment in his- polymeric delivery vehicles. School Robotics Team and Car- ues serve as the chair of the important points that I wanted came involved in political nized but make a difference. tory and how we need to fight dhist Church of Oakland’s chairperson of the J-Sei Crab face challenges in dealing with She is the principal dancer mel High School Science Olym- choir. She also organizes the Feed since its inception almost contractors due to their lack of board of governors. Through- to convey. It was not an easy issues? for many of the rights that we at the Pacific Ballet Academy piad team founder/president. out the years, Nishio has also process and even today while AN: During my undergrad- GK: Sara Omura, a young take for granted. We need to monthly services. The Sasakis 30 years ago. Goto has been proficiency with the English and a member of the San Jose He is the co-captain of the var- are board members of the Wan- involved with the J-Sei Family language, or who run the risk served as a mentor to young preparing for the Manzanar uate years, my parents were middle school teenager, fight complacency and find Taiko’s Junior Taiko Perform- sity golf team. He is a Stanford activists who want to make a video I find it a bit stressful. not very aware of my activism. wrote a poem that ques- ways in which we can be part to Hiroshima Kenjinkai and on Festival and lunch program for of being scammed. Nakahara’s ing Ensemble. She studied at University Artificial Intelligence the advisory committee for the 10 years, and is a weekly volun- volunteer work enables him to difference in their communi- I am sure you can relate with I lived in a family in which tioned if anything has re- of the solution. There are so the Joffrey Ballet School and Student Programmer and has ties. your own experience. You did there was very little conver- ally changed in society with many ways — big and small. “Local Americans: Japanese teer at Kaiser Permanente in make seniors smile. He says it studies at the Bolshoi Bal- developed an AI/machine American Imprisonment Dur- Richmond. feels great to be alive and to be a great job at the recent Day of sation that occurred. As an the rise of the alt-right na- Folding cranes for Tsuru for let Academy. Ormiston is the learning chess player. Glen Kitayama: You were Remembrance, and I am sure example, my honeymoon with tionalism. What do you say Solidarity, writing letters to ing World War II” exhibit and She has been described as able to help others. once voted the shyest kid that it was stressful for you. Yvonne was the first “vaca- to young people who ques- voters in swing states, getting Little Tokyo Eats supports restaurants and feeds seniors in junior high school. How You stepped up when called tion” that I had ever had. My tion where we are headed friends and family to register S.F. consulate seeks to honor Japanese centenarians did you evolve into such an upon and you gained valuable father died when I was in my as a country? and vote. There is no excuse LOS ANGELES — Little To- ment. first year of graduate school AN: To quote Martin Lu- for sitting this one out. kyo Service Center, Little Tokyo The dinners are purchased The Consulate General of citizenship qualify for this 1920, should not yet have been and we never had an opportu- ther King, Jr.: “The arc of Community Council and Keiro from Little Tokyo restaurants. Japan in San Francisco is seeking recognition. Former Japanese honored. nity to talk about any issues. the moral universe is long, Manzanar Committee mem- have partnered to launch a pro- The collaboration with LTCC information about centenarians nationals who naturalized to The consulate needs the That is one of my biggest re- but it bends toward justice.” ber Glen Kitayama is an el- gram “to deliver subsidized din- and Keiro keeps the cost of who hold Japanese citizenship become U.S. citizens may centenarian’s Japanese name grets in life — that I was not As a young person, I can un- ementary school teacher in ners prepared by restaurants in meals low for seniors to pur- and live in San Francisco. receive a certificate from the written in kanji and katakana able to speak with my Father derstand how Sara can won- the Los Angeles Unified School Little Tokyo to senior residents chase. Japan observes “Respect for Consul General of Japan in San characters, their sex, their about our family and his life. der how much things have District. A former member of in the neighborhood.” “Seniors over the age of 65 the Aged Day” each September, Francisco. date of birth, their registered I did not find out until after he changed. As someone who is NCRR, his Masters of Arts the- Following Los Angeles’ Safer- who live in Little Tokyo Towers, with the prime minister The qualifications forresidence in Japan and their had died how much the camps on the other side of the age sis at UCLA provided much at-Home order, staff and volun- Miyako Gardens, Casa Heiwa, presenting a certificate and a recognition include: The current address and phone impacted his life. After my Fa- spectrum from Sara, I would of the foundation for NCRR’s teers affiliated with the orga- San Pedro Firm Building and commemorative gift to each Japanese or former Japanese number. ther died, I basically had to say that progress is never lin- book, “NCRR: The Grassroots nizations “started delivering the Far East Building can find centenarian in recognition of national should have been born This information should be take on the leadership of our ear moving along in one posi- Struggle for Japanese Ameri- meals at Little Tokyo affordable order forms in their lobbies.” their “long years of service to between April 1, 1920 and March sent to the consulate, Attn: Mr. family as my Mom did not tive direction. Change in soci- can Redress and Reparations.” residential buildings on April 6” To support the program, visit the community.” 31, 1921, and the Japanese or Wakamatsu, by May 14, 2020, have a clue about how to han- ety has its ups and downs. Just He writes from South Pasade- through the “Little Tokyo Eats” https://www.ltsc.org/deliveryvol- Centenarians who live former Japanese national who via fax, (415) 767-4200 or e-mail: dle things and my sister was as so many of us were delight- na, California. initiative, according to a state- unteer/. abroad but still hold Japanese was born before March 31, [email protected].

6 Nichi Bei Weekly | MAY 7 - 20, 2020 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 | Nichi Bei Weekly 7 8 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • Food Bay Area chef J. Kenji López-Alt delivers meals to health care workers

By DEREK TAHARA HELPING HANDS Nichi Bei Weekly ­— (Left) Workers, The coronavirus pandemic Axel Tepau has led to the closure of restau- and Orlando rants across the country. In the Gonzalez, prepare interim, many are selling take- meal boxes at out or offering meal deliveries. Wursthall. (Right) Kenji López-Alt The Nichi Bei Weekly inter- unloading a box viewed chef and New York Times of meals at San food writer J. Kenji López-Alt by Francisco General e-mail about how his restaurant, Hospital and Wursthall in San Mateo, Calif., Trauma Center. is staying afloat while giving back to those in need. photos courtesy of While CNBC Make It report- J. Kenji López-Alt. ed that López-Alt initially had to let most of the restaurant’s employees go when it closed amid the shelter-in-place or- ders, between partnering with I go by) and German last NBW: How did the idea of celebrity chef José Andrés, as name (Alt). My wife is Colom- serving meals to people, es- well as through the donations bian and we both changed our pecially health care workers, López-Alt has received through last names to López-Alt when start? his Patreon page, he has since we were married. Wursthall JKLA: Initially, I started by been able to rehire some of his opened in February of 2018, a myself. I had a walk-in full of staff as he delivers meals. little over two years ago. It’s in ingredients that were not go- hundred pounds of various meals have you served since This interview has been ed- San Mateo, which is where I ing to be used because we had things like steak, turkey, chick- the pandemic? ited for length. reside. shut the restaurant down, so en, lamb, and bison. California JKLA: To date, we have My role (at Serious Eats) I started thinking about how I Olive Ranch delivered 20 gal- served nearly 3,000 meals. Nichi Bei Weekly: Can I was to introduce recipes to the could repurpose those ingre- lons of extra virgin olive oil. have some background in- site, and it has since evolved to dients and get them to people Many community members NBW: How many of the formation on you? become a primarily recipe and who clearly were in need. I put have been dropping off home- original staff have you hired J. Kenji López-Alt: I was cooking-based site. I started my out a call on Twitter for sugges- made masks for our team to use back for this meal delivery born in Boston and grew up in column, “The Food Lab,” while tions and SF General was men- while preparing meals. service? New York. My mother is Japa- working at Serious Eats, which tioned as a place that needed JKLA: About 25 percent of nese and my father is American has since become a James meals delivered, so I delivered NBW: How is your res- our original staff. of German descent, hence the Beard award-winning NYT best 100 egg salad sandwiches and taurant (Wursthall) with the Japanese middle name (which seller. roasted broccoli salads the next partnerships Off Their Plate NBW: What’s the timeline day. For the next few weeks, I and Chef José Andrés’ World of this service? When do spent four nights a week cook- Central Kitchen, as well as you start making the meals? THE CENSUS IS A SIMPLE AND ing at the restaurant by myself, your Patreon, enabling (you) When do they get delivered? delivering meals the next day. to feed people in San Mateo Where do they get delivered Eventually I was connected and Oakland? Health care to? CONFIDENTIAL 9 QUESTION SURVEY with Off Their Plate via my old and hospital workers? JKLA: We currently operate friend Ken Oringer, who helped JKLA: Off Their Plate and the kitchen five days a week. found the organization in Bos- World Central Kitchen have Meals are generally prepped ton, and that allowed me to be been wonderful to work with. the day before and boxed ei- able to start hiring back some They have helped us find de- ther the night before for morn- employees and increasing our livery venues where our food ing deliveries, or the morning COMMUNITIES COUNT PARTICIPATE output. can do the most good, as well of for evening deliveries. All One of our vendors, Chef’s as connected us with donors to the meals are designed to be Warehouse, donated several pay for the food costs, payroll healthy and nourishing — lots and overhead for making these of leafy greens, vegetables and FAMILIES COUNT IN THE CENSUS meal boxes. What’s wonderful lean protein and we offer both is that it has allowed us to keep vegan and omnivore options at least some of our employees with every delivery. We have on payroll. We have also been donated to many venues so far, EVERYONE COUNTS TODAY raising money through our including SF General, Palo Alto own initiatives via my Patreon Medical, Kaiser South Bay, Mis- page. I have been doing a lot of sion Medical Clinics, Samaritan personal community outreach House San Mateo ... to find other non-health care- NSU related venues to deliver food For more information visit: E S as well. http://www.wursthall.com or NBW: How many boxed call (650) 931-4282. C

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8 Nichi Bei Weekly | MAY 7 - 20, 2020 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 | Nichi Bei Weekly 9 10 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • MAY 7 - 20, 2020 11 Focus Today’s Japan An intriguing elegy for Topaz Record 1.76 mil. visit Parties go online as coronavirus Japan extends state of emergency ‘The Paper’ renovated Hiroshima a vacation, and we agreed to A-bomb museum in 2019 forces people to stay at home over coronavirus until May 31 meet for coffee. I was glad for By IWAO KAWAKAMI This is a man who once through By NORIYUKI SUZUKI erated his call for an 80 percent HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) — A TOKYO, (Kyodo) — Drink- a chance to get together with (the desert wind blows had a celery ranch near San The wires Video Communications Inc.’s on- Kyodo News cut in person-to-person contact record 1.76 million people visited ing parties are increasingly be- one of my old friend’s rela- and sand covers the barbed Diego— A buzzard circles lazily line conferencing platform. It was TOKYO — Prime Minister in 13 prefectures such as Tokyo the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ing held online in Japan as more tives. During our chat, Alan wire posts—here was once He remembers the wet green above him—swings away in attended by about 10 people from Shinzo Abe on May 4 extended and Osaka that require “special Museum in fiscal 2019 through people stay home in self-isolation mentioned that he had at his a city a mile square : Topaz, stalks on frosty mornings alarm Tokyo, Kanagawa, Hiroshima the nationwide state of emergen- caution.” “I’m not saying that go- March following its renovation, to prevent the spread of the novel house a box of material from “Jewel of the desert”--a city The Mexicans who said “La As a shot shatters the and other parts of Japan. cy until the end of May to reduce ing out is bad,” Abe said as long with some additional photos and coronavirus and pubs operate for Guyo’s house that he had in- of ten thousand people, Golondrina” as they slashed at silence of the approaching The company delivered its new coronavirus infections in as the “3 Cs” — confined spaces, atomic bomb victims’ belongings shorter hours at the request of lo- herited after her passing, and aliens and citizens bound by the night DD4D craft beer to the partici- Japan amid nascent signs of the crowded places and close contact put on display. cal authorities. One of the people who en- asked whether I could give barbed wire) roots with long knives Dust rises in a cloud as pants before the event. epidemic leveling off. — are avoided. The number of visitors from Online parties are expected to riched my life was the jour- him guidance as to its schol- reconstruct now the first the imperturbable young the old man falls sideward The party over Zoom was awk- Abe said extending the state Japan’s state of emergency abroad also hit an all-time high become a new way of commu- nalist and educator Guyo arly value. days of Topaz— Japanese American truck in the road ward at first, with bad voice qual- of emergency that was due to ex- does not mean hard lockdowns, for the seventh straight year, up nication for those compelled to (Marion) Tajiri, whom I was Thus, when I visited Seattle In the grayness following drivers The body twitches— ity at times, but as people talked pire May 6 was necessary to re- and necessary outings such as some 88,000 from a year earlier remain at home but who want to fortunate to get to know near in 2016, Alan visited me at my a sunset an old man shuffles the fat Italian commission grows still—blood seeps about their favorite types of beer, move some of the strain on hospi- grocery shopping, hospital visits to 520,000, the museum said. The keep in touch and casually chat the end of her long life. I was hotel, and brought Guyo’s along the road near the merchants who kidded him through the hole conversation, laughter and drinks tals overcrowded with COVID-19 and going for walks or jogging main building of the museum re- with friends as major Japanese further blessed to receive an box. It contained a number barbed wire fence in a market jammed with in the back of the heart began to flow. “Everyone drinks patients and sought continued have been allowed. opened in April last year after un- cities remain under a state of additional gift from her years of books on diverse subjects, focus the lens of vegetables (order of the military the same beer and enjoys the cooperation. Over the past month, econom- dergoing a two-year renovation emergency due to the virus pan- after her passing. including a volume on garden- imagination upon an (war has forced an police : fire if necessary if same taste and flavor,” said Mich- But he acknowledged that ic activity has been depressed for both exhibition renewal and demic. I first met Guyo in 2003. ing and an album of protest unshaven face beneath a evacuation—harrows and any resident ibayashi, an office worker who “strict curbs” on social and eco- due to stay-at-home and business quake resistance reinforcement. On the night of April 8, a day She agreed to let me inter- songs by the famed folk sing- is seen going through the has joined similar virtual parties nomic activities cannot last long, closure requests under the emer- shapeless straw hat— discs begin to rust) The reopened building focuses after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe view her about the years dur- er Woody Guthrie (who had fence) with her friends and coworkers. saying “new lifestyles” should gency declaration. the face of a Japanese a sheet of paper flies out of on using personal items to depict declared a state of emergency ing and after World War II, once written columns for the a GI with a Garand runs “(Zoom) is an interesting tool for be adopted without lowering the While the state of emergency seventy years old the old man’s hands the lives of individuals who fell to fight the virus, Chiaki Mich- when she served with her down the stops of the watch people who really love drinking guard against the virus in gradu- remains in force nationwide, Pacific Citizen). a blue working shirt— the wind carries it along like victim to the 1945 U.S. atomic ibayashi, 31, held out a glass husband Larry Tajiri as col- to come together,” she said. ally returning to normalcy. some of the current constraints One of the books in the col- patched denim trousers— a white lifeboat bobbing in the tower bombing. A section featuring of beer toward her computer A 36-year-old male office work- The number of daily reported on social and economic activi- umnist and co-editor for the lection was a slim volume of brown boots middle of an ocean “Christ, was he trying to American prisoners of war and screen at her home in Funabashi, er from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefec- cases has fallen to about a third of ties will be eased in prefectures Japanese American Citizens poetry, “The Parents and Oth- that rise and fall, leaving a few yards beyond the fence escape?” other foreign victims who were in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, in ture, used to meet friends a few its peak — from 700 to 200 — but where the infection situation League’s Pacific Citizen. (I er Poems” by Iwao Kawakami. small craters in the dusty the paper swerves to rest upon He sees a mimeographed the western Japan city at the time a “toast” with other online party times a month for drinks but has it should fall below 100, Abe said. does not need special caution. subsequently described this I had never seen the book and road the sand paper clutched in the dead of the blast was also added. participants. been organizing online drinking Japan has so far confirmed about The reopening of parks, librar- visit in the afterword to “Pa- knew nothing of it. (I later (this is the beginning (regulation of the War man’s hand The previous record high of Chiba is among the seven pre- parties since late March. 16,000 coronavirus cases, with ies and museums, will be permit- cific Citizens: Larry and Guyo discovered that a pair of cop- of a Utah night and a wind Relocation Authority : all but does not notice the 1.74 million visitors was set in fectures placed under the state of “I wanted to support my favor- over 560 deaths. ted across the country on condi- Tajiri and Japanese American ies were already housed in springs up) residents of wind beginning to push fiscal 2016. Former U.S. Presi- emergency. “This party was orga- ite bars as much as possible but Under the state of emergency, tion that preventive steps against Journalism in the World War public collections — at Smith Two pieces of paper start The center are hereby another dent Barack Obama visited the nized because you can’t easily go it has become difficult,” he said. people still need to refrain from the virus are taken. II Era,” my anthology of the College and at the Immigra- to flutter in the hands of the warned not to go near the piece of paper beyond the museum in May that year, the out now. So let’s enjoy,” said an Relaxing with alcohol at home, crossing prefectural borders The government will release Tajiris’ writings). That first tion History Research Center old man— fence) fence first incumbent American leader organizer of the gathering. the parties can last more than and going to nightclubs or live guidelines in the next few weeks encounter with Guyo led to at the University of Minne- His lips are moving The old man stops, looks at (Topaz is now with to tour Hiroshima. Paper cranes Japandemic Co., a brewery in five hours and as some people music venues to lower the risk on virus prevention steps for several further meetings, and sota). I examined the book, (what are you reading, the watch tower some distance Virginia City and Nineveh— made by Obama, viewed as a Matsuyama, the capital of west- disappear from the screen, “it of group transmission. Abe reit- businesses to resume operations. a warm friendship blossomed and saw that it had been pub- sir? Even if it is the camp’s away— the paper, symbol of peace, are displayed in ern Japan’s Ehime Prefecture, feels like we’re bar hopping” with between us. lished in 1947, right after the mimeographed newspaper Surely guards would not buffeted by the rain and the museum’s east building. organized the party via Zoom the remaining members, he said. In 2007, shortly after I be- end of the war. The publisher it cannot be as absorbing mind if he went after a piece wind, has crumbled into gan writing for the Nichi Bei was the (then) newly-founded as the sight of purple of paper dust— Times, I learned from a mutual Nichi Bei Times — the very mountains resting on white Slowly he walks toward only the mountains and Japan ranked 66th in world for press freedom friend that Guyo had been hos- newspaper for which I had sands of the desert) the fence, bends down to go the desert remain) pitalized, and had not long to subsequently written my own TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan is tensively.” crackdowns on dissent. China, which remained at In contrast, Indonesia rose live. I devoted one of my first columns — for which Iwao ranked 66th in the world in terms of freedom of the press, up one 177th, “never stops enhancing its five places to 119th, as a result of “Great Unknown” columns to Kawakami was a sports editor of previous writers struggled of it that I had found. By cit- final echo of the generosity system of information hyper-con- President Joko “Jokowi” Wido- revealing her career and ac- to make a living and recover ing regulations in bloodless my friend showed me during notch from the previous year, and columnist. While Kawaka- while North Korea fell one place trol and persecution of dissident do’s policy to put press freedom complishments, and immedi- from the trauma of their ex- parenthesis, Kawakami con- her lifetime. mi was primarily known as a to 180th, bottom of the list, ac- journalists and bloggers.” at the center of his second term. ately sent the manuscript on to veyed through understate- journalist (and as one-time perience. Even among such cording to a recent survey by Re- According to the index, Cam- South Korea fell one place to her family members to share husband of the better-known works as they produced, the ment the horrible inhumanity Greg Robinson, Ph.D., au- porters Without Borders, or RSF. bodia ranked 144th, down one, 42nd, RSF said, citing the govern- with her in her last days. poet Toyo Suyemoto), I knew camp experience remained all of life behind barbed wire, and thor of “By Order of the Presi- Norway topped the standings and Thailand fell four spots to ment’s use of national security as Following Guyo’s passing, I that he had written poetry as but untouched. the waste of people’s time and dent: FDR and the Internment for the fourth straight year, the 140th because their respective a pretest for curbing journalistic kept in sporadic touch with dif- well, and I recalled seeing his Yet, as I started reading lives that it entailed. of Japanese Americans” and “A Paris-based group said in its 2020 regimes have increased their freedom. ferent family members, such work in numerous anthologies through the poems, I was a I told Alan that I was ex- Tragedy of Democracy: Japa- World Press Freedom Index, as her niece Karen Okagaki of Asian American writing. bit disappointed by the fact cited to learn more about the nese Confinement in North with Finland, Denmark, Sweden Japanese and her nephews Gregg Na- Even before opening the that even though Kawakami Kawakami book. Upon seeing America,” is a professor of his- and the Netherlands making up PRESERVE CULTURE kanishi and Jon Funabiki. book, I found its existence had been confined at Topaz in my enthusiasm, Alan gener- tory at l’Université du Québec À the top five. HELP EMPOWER our COMMUNITY They kindly offered me docu- intriguing, as it represented Central Utah during the war, ously offered to give me the Montréal. He can be reached at Despite a rise in the ranking, ments and granted me assis- a rare work of Nisei literature and had edited the weekly book, and any others from [email protected]. The newsrooms of the Japanese me- DOCUMENT our HISTORY tance with family photos and from the early years after the Topaz Times, none of the po- the box I wanted, saying that views expressed in the preced- dia “are still heavily influenced by US rights for “Pacific Citizens.” In war. Whereas before Pearl ems seemed to reference the he knew that Guyo would ap- ing column are not necessarily their bosses in the ‘keiretsu,’ the NOW ACCEPTING STOCK TRANSFERS! early 2016, I received a mes- Harbor the young Nisei on the wartime incarceration. Then I prove, and that I would make those of the Nichi Bei Weekly. media-owning conglomerates e-mail [email protected] or call for more info sage from another of Guyo’s West Coast and elsewhere had came upon “The Paper.” good use of whatever I had. that put business interests first,” DONATE TODAY to help support the nephews, Alan Okagaki. Alan This poem was an intrigu- In the end, I took a selection produced a dizzying amount of This poem ... centered on RSF said. and our community told me that he and his wife ing elegy for Topaz (which the of books that I thought would Nichi Bei Weekly poetry and short fiction, they a horrid act of injustice The United States was ranked Donna would be traveling author compares to Nineveh be helpful or good additions to empowerment programs largely ceased in the years — the shooting of a man 45th, up three places. But the from Seattle to Montreal for and Virginia City as ruins of my library. after camp, when the mass who violated regulations group noted President Donald abandoned cities lying bare Since receiving “The Par- Please make checks payable to Nichi Bei Foundation. by straying too close to Trump’s “hostility” toward news in the desert). It centered on ents,” I have tried to find donate online at: www.nichibei.org/donate the barbed wire fence outlets, saying “The abuse is only a horrid act of injustice — the further information on the getting worse amid the coronavi- (includes surrounding camp. I realized $50 $100 $500 $1,000 one year shooting of a man who violat- background of its writing and that the work was inspired rus pandemic in 2020, as journal- membership) ed regulations by straying too publication, but have not had by the 1943 shooting of Issei ists covering the Trump adminis- close to the barbed wire fence much success. Kawakami died tration’s response to the crisis are inmate James Wakasa. I surrounding camp. I realized in 1976, and seems not to have subjected to the president’s at- Name had seen artworks by Miné that the work was inspired left behind archives, so the tacks during his press briefings.” Address Okubo and Chiura Obata by the 1943 shooting of Issei sources of “The Paper” and its Citing a correlation between that depicted the events of City State ______Zip inmate James Wakasa. I had eloquent protest over confine- suppression of media freedom in the shooting and Wakasa’s seen artworks by Miné Okubo ment, so rare in the postwar response to the coronavirus pan- Telephone ( ) E-mail funeral, this was the first and Chiura Obata that depict- years, remain unclear. I am demic and a country’s ranking, Send payment to: Find us on literary treatment of it that I The Nichi Bei Foundation is an exempt organization Facebook ed the events of the shooting nonetheless grateful to Guyo RSF said China and Iran, down under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Nichi Bei Foundation had found. three to 173rd, “censored their Code, tax ID number 27-0700443. Your donation is P.O. Box 15693 and Wakasa’s funeral, this was and her family for bringing me tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law. the first literary treatment the volume, which serves as a major coronavirus outbreaks ex- San Francisco, CA 94115

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The fes- www.sjbetsuin.com/corona-virus The Midwest Buddhist Temple in Center of Northern California will host sashi Niwano, in which teenager El- tival will screen one film program per Chicago will post their Dharma talks: a virtual Children’s Day Festival from lie Chu writes a love letter for a jock, 1 5 8 2 https://mbtchicago.org/category/dharma- 1 to 3 p.m. at https://www.facebook.com/ day starting from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. PT. The Wesley United Methodist Church which leads to surprising results. Each day a filmmaker discussion will is streaming its services on Sundays: talks. LikeJCCCNC/. The program will include live and pre-recorded content, including More details will be released. Info: take place at 5 p.m. PT online. Info: 7 4 http://ow.ly/O9gz50z7QIt. Info: https://www. https://caamfest.com/2020/. festival.vcmedia.org. wesleysj.net. The New York Buddhist Church will cultural performances, music and storybook livestream their services at 11:30 readings. Info: http://ow.ly/C13v50zwD9u. a.m. on Facebook: https://www.fb.com/ programs-events/genealogy/ volunteer committee members will facilitate 9 8 2 4 The Berkeley Buddhist Temple will hold virtual services on Sundays at 9:30 a.m.: nybuddhistchurch. MONDAY, MAY 11 small group discussions on our favorite http://ow.ly/EYep50z7QPR. Satsuki Ina, a Nichi Bei Weekly THURSDAY, MAY 14 Japanese/Japanese American foods and columnist, will host “Let’s Talk,” a new Nakayoshi will host an online Netflix 3 6 9 5 J-Sei is offering the following classes. food traditions.” Participants will connect via The Buddhist Church of Oakland will Info: visit https://j-sei.org/classes. monthly virtual talk series, starting at 10 Party from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The group will Zoom. The meeting ID and password will conduct virtual services on Sundays: to 11:30 a.m. for people who want to talk discuss an episode of “Midnight Diner: be sent via e-mail upon registration. Info: about topics pertaining to the Japanese Tokyo Stories.” To use Netflix Party, 6 5 2 3 http://ow.ly/D39E50z7QSN. Info: https:// TUESDAYS http://ow.ly/ekP650ztI1f. buddhistchurchofoakland.org. The “Writing Our Histories” class American community. “On Aging,” a new participants should install the Chrome focused on the Japanese American monthly discussion, will be hosted on extension and follow the instructions here: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 Zoom. Info: visit https://j-sei.org/classes. https://www.netflixparty.com/#intro. Info: 9 8 The Buena Vista United Methodist experience will be held Tuesdays, from Dr. Satsuki Ina, Dr. Carolee Tran, Dr. Church will hold services live on 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. via video conference. http://ow.ly/XVyk50zwFaf. Sign up via a Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Shirley Sundays through Zoom and Facebook. Contact [email protected]. WEDNESDAY, MAY13 form to receive a meeting invitation: https:// Ann Higuchi, JD will participate in the forms.gle/guznNTFYZ2MQpbCc8. 5 8 2 3 E-mail [email protected]. http:// The National Association of Asian “Lessons From the Past: Yellow Peril in www.buenavistaumc.org. “Gentle Yoga” from 10 to 11:30 a.m. American Professionals will host the COVID-19 Times” Webinar at 4 p.m. EST. hosted by Dena Saedi via Zoom. free “Asian American Identity and Self The “APAICS in Conversation: The The discussion, hosted by the Japanese Honorable Jill Aiko Otake” will take 7 8 3 The Mountain View Buddhist Temple’s Compassion during COVID-19” Webinar American Citizens League, Asian American DOWN ACROSS services are online: http://ow.ly/ “Tai Chi 2” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., hosted at 4 p.m. PDT. Dr. Ravi Chandra will teach place at 9:30 a.m. PDT as part of Asian Psychological Association, South East BOyU50z7QWh. Info: https://www. by Nobuo Nishi. the principles of Mindful Self Compassion, Pacific American Institute for Congressional Asian Resource Center, National Council 1. Mizuno Some Koujyo is based out of this prefecture 6. Godfather of Asian American film Puzzle 1 (Hard, difficulty rating 0.63) mvbuddhisttemple.org/. lead self-compassion meditations, and Studies’ series of virtual fireside chats. of Asian Pacific Americans and The Heart HardGenerated by http://www.opensky.ca/sudoku on Tue Apr 14 16:40:53 2020 GMT. Enjoy! share perspectives on how to deal with Otake is a United States District Judge for 2. Who funds Go Little Tokyo? 9. Showa-era Japanese modern dancer “Community Ukulele Sessions” from Mountain Wyoming Foundation, will focus microaggressions. Info: http://ow.ly/ the District of Hawai‘i. Info/RSVP: https:// on “Asian American mental health through Popular in-season fruit harvested from row-crops choreographer The Fresno Buddhist Temple will hold 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 3. virtual services live on Sundays at AGLo50zwrq3. apaics.org/events/jill-aiko-otake/. both a historical lens and through the lens of 10. Peak planting season for nurseries 4 8 4. Japanese NFL hopeful 10 a.m. via their Twitter account: www. THURSDAYS the current pandemic.” Register: http://ow.ly/ Anathema to Texas chili 11. Co-owner of Kitazawa Seed Company twitter.com/fresno_nishi. Info: www. Mah Jong Club from12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Asian Pacific American Institute for THURSDAY, MAY 21 h76I50zxVoV. Confirmation will be sent via 5. The Asian Art Museum will host the “Zen “With hands” in Tagalog fresnobuddhisttemple.org/index.html. Congressional Studies will host a e-mail. Info/questions about accessibility: 7. 1882 ______Exclusion Act 13. 4 6 7 Webinar discussion on the Census from and Self-Cultivation with Rev. Takafumi [email protected]. Shirley Ann Higuchi’s latest WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, Kawakami” virtual event from 7 to 8 8. A big radish 14. The Buddhist Church of Sacramento 9 to 10 a.m. PT. The discussion will focus on THURSDAY, MAY 21 AND the “importance of our communities being p.m. Kawakami is the deputy head priest 12. Japanese for Feng Shui Generated by puzzle-maker.com 2 3 1 5 will host live virtual services on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. at www.buddhistchurch.org/ SATURDAY, MAY 30 counted and the challenges faced in doing at the Shunkoin Temple in Kyoto, Japan. JUNE Asian Americans Advancing watch-dharma-message or visit http://ow.ly/ so. It will specifically highlight the work that Attendees will receive the Zoom login with Justice and Hollaback! will host the Solutions R7hh50z7R9s. is being done by national organizations a confirmation e-mail. Tickets: $6.94 each. THURSDAYS, JUNE 18 THROUGH

7 4 8 6 1 “Bystander Intervention: to stop and other stakeholders to mobilize our Info: http://ow.ly/w1Qf50zsvgX.

Easy Medium Hard AUG. 13 9 1 5 2 8 4 7 6 9 5 2 1 6 3 8 7 4 1 8 3 6 2 9 5 7 4 3 anti-Asian/American and xenophobic The Gardena Buddhist Church will communities.” Upon registering (http:// The “Finding Your Nikkei Roots In the

harassment” Webinar Wednesday, ow.ly/Yh8g50zwJzO) participants will TUESDAY, MAY 26 U.S. and Japan: Digital Genealogy 2 8 7 6 1 3 5 9 1 3 4 7 2 8 6 9 5 4 2 7 5 8 1 3 9 6 4 conduct virtual services on Sundays: 1 3 May 13 at 11 a.m. PT, Thursday, May

https://www.gardenabuddhistchurch. receive a Zoom link. The Japanese Cultural and Community Series With Linda Harms Okazaki and

21 at 4 p.m. PT and Saturday, May 30 4 3 6 5 9 7 1 8 7 6 8 5 9 4 3 2 1 5 6 9 3 7 4 2 1 8 2 org/dharma-talk. Info: info@ Center of Northern California will Densho” will continue. The initial Webinar

at 11 a.m. PT. Participants must register

gardenabuddhistchurch.org. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 THROUGH host a free Community Kitchen has passed. Sessions will take place 7 2 4 8 5 6 3 1 3 2 9 4 8 5 1 6 7 8 4 5 7 1 2 9 6 3 9 6 9 2 1 5 in advance for the free interactive SUNDAY, AUG. 5 Virtual Potluck featuring Japanese from Thursdays from 10 to 11 a.m. PT.

trainings. Info: https://www.ihollaback. 1 9 8 7 3 2 6 4 5 8 1 9 7 6 2 4 3 3 7 2 9 6 5 4 8 1 5 The Orange County Buddhist Church Linda Harms Okazaki will lead the and Japanese American recipes from Topics include: “Navigating Websites,”

will host live virtual services on org/bystanderintervention. “Your Family, Your History: Biweekly 7 to 9:30 p.m. Participants should be “Recording Oral Histories,” “U.S. Records,” 5 6 3 9 4 1 8 2 6 4 7 2 3 1 5 8 9 9 1 6 8 4 3 7 2 5 7 1 4 6 5

Sundays at 10 a.m. via YouTube: http:// Genealogy” Webinar from 7 to 8 p.m. prepared to: “Prepare and share online “Immigration Records,” “Incarceration

a favorite Japanese/Japanese American 8 7 1 3 2 9 4 5 8 1 6 3 4 9 7 5 2 6 5 4 1 9 7 8 3 2 6 ow.ly/qCLz50z7S0V and podcasts PDT via Zoom. Fees: Free admission for Camp Records,” “Military Records,” “Family

via SoundCloud: https://soundcloud. MAY Session 1. Sessions 2-8 Course Enrollment potluck or home cooking dish; also share History Records in Japan,” “Preserving Your 6 5 9 4 7 8 2 3 2 9 3 8 5 7 4 1 6 7 3 1 2 5 8 6 4 9 1 6 7 2

com/weeklywheel. E-mail, ocbc909@ $30 Japanese Cultural and Community any stories about what makes your dish Family Archives,” “Preserving Your Family

special to you, any memories of the dish 3 4 2 1 6 5 9 7 4 7 5 6 1 2 9 3 8 2 9 8 4 3 6 1 5 7 8 ocbuddhist.org. FRIDAY, MAY 8 THROUGH Center of Northern California members, Archives” and “Writing Your Family History.” SUNDAY, MAY 17 $50 general public. “Learn how to research you have, and also the source of your Info/register: http://densho.org/announcing-

5 9 The Japanese American Museum of recipe, whether it’s been passed down ; Across: 6. Bob Nakamura, 9. Baku Ishii, 10. Spring, 11. Shiroyama, 13. Kamayan, 14. Setsuko’s Secret Setsuko’s 14. Kamayan, 13. Shiroyama, 11. Spring, 10. Ishii, Baku 9. Nakamura, Bob 6. Across: ; Sui Fu 12. 12. The Pasadena Buddhist Temple posts your family records and history, and write a-new-digital-genealogy-series/.

San Jose’s “Takaramono” vintage from family members, or your community Crossword solutions: solutions: Crossword , , Daikon Down: 1. Hokkaido, 2. LA Metro, 3. Strawberry, 4. Toshiki Sato, 5. Beans, 7. Chinese, 8. 8. Chinese, 7. Beans, 5. Sato, Toshiki 4. Strawberry, 3. Metro, LA 2. Hokkaido, 1. Down: their services: http://ow.ly/1aOq50z7S3w. and create your own family’s history Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/sudoku auction fundraiser will occur online. book.” Info/register: https://www.jcccnc.org/ or church cookbooks; community kitchen Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/sudoku on Tue Apr 14 16:42:51 2020 GMT. Enjoy! Info: http://ow.ly/LBig50zsstx. 12 Nichi Bei Weekly | MAY 7 - 20, 2020 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 | Nichi Bei Weekly 13 14 MAY 7 - 20, 2020 • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • • NICHI BEI WEEKLY • MAY 7 - 20, 2020 15 FROM PAGE THREE: Bay Area J-Towns enduring waiting game during pandemic Sports American com- pliers have been ter-in-place orders are lifted. In Remembrance “A community center involves munity in the people interacting with people. impacted by the MLB.com ranks Ichiro’s, region. “In economic shut- Japantown Asks for Help Asian athletes give back during quarantine some way (the And so when that can’t happen, down. He noted OBITUARIES Ohtani’s rookie years it changes everything for us.” Aside from new online venues pandemic has) he carries prod- to garner sales or donors, both ATHLETES IN THE among best since 2000 just given us a — PAUL OSAKI, uct from other (L businesses and nonprofits in the SPOTLIGHT ­— test case, to see executive director, JCCCNC independent two Japantowns have applied to Kiyoshi Glenn Onizuka to R): Alex and Maia TOKYO (Kyodo) — Ichiro Aug. 8, 1930 - Feb. 27, 2020 Shibutani have raised Suzuki’s 2001 debut season was what we can do vendors, such as various grants and loans made and how best to outreach to our Brandt Fuse’s Sumo Fish, whom funds amid the picked as fourth best and Shohei available because of the pandemic. ONIZUKA, KIYOSHI GLENN was retirement, Glenn had a passion for members and program partici- pandemic, while Kyla Ohtani’s 2018 seventh in an ar- he cannot accept new inventory Ishii said his organization pursued born in Stockton, CA and attended Asian American History, lecturing on pants.” from while the store is closed. Ross received an award ticle published April 23 on MLB. donations for hand sanitizers and elementary school there until World the forcible internment of Japanese Cathy Inamasu, executive direc- Some businesses have moved War II when he and his family were Americans during World War II to as a student athlete, com’s Website in which two writ- masks for his employees. and Yuta Watanabe has tor of neighboring Nihonmachi their products and services on- Although most of the 16 enti- removed and relocated to a Japanese many high schools and community been working out. ers sorted through all 40 of Ma- Little Friends, said her teachers at line. Linda Mihara, owner of Paper ties Nichi Bei Weekly interviewed American internment camp in Rohwer colleges in the East Bay. Glenn would Arkansas. Alongside approximately continue to teach on a part time basis jor League Baseball’s rookie of the preschool are doing their best Tree in San Francisco, said she said they had attempted to apply photos courtesy of Team the year seasons since 2000. 120,000 people of Japanese Ancestry for an additional 17 years, highlighted to work with children remotely. had to layoff her retail staff, and is for the Small Business Admin- who were placed in 10 camps around by being selected Lecturer of the Year USA, Don Liebig/UCLA The top season picked in their “(The staff have) been trying to now working with one other sala- istration’s Paycheck Protection the United States. Returning to Cali- at DVC in 2008. Photography, NBAE via “draft” belonged to Ohtani’s support each other too, especially ried employee to fill online orders Program loan, which would pro- fornia after the war, Glenn earned a Glenn was an avid fisherman, golfer Getty Images teammate, Los Angeles Angels working with the kids, especially three days a week. She said the vide businesses a loan that would Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and and sports fan. He enjoyed his fishing center fielder Mike Trout, who the little ones on Zoom. It’s a to- upshot in online orders for origa- a Master’s Degree in Counseling at trips, his golfing outings and loved his later be forgiven if the bulk of the San Francisco State University. 49ers, Giants and all Bay Area teams. With people being required During the quarantine pe- gymnast, has joined a campaign ticle said. made his debut in 2012. Japa- tally different type of work with mi has prevented her from going funds are used for payroll, only to stay indoors and prohibited riod, the siblings have created led by Athletes for Impact. Glenn was a veteran of the Korean In addition, he was a strong supporter nese reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki’s the kids. At this age, this young into the red. Jeannette Rapaido of three said they had received it War, having served in Military Intelli- of his local community, as evidenced from holding large gatherings, a new Zoom livestream show, The Los Angeles Rams’ Tay- Kyla Ross 2000 American League rookie of age, they really need to be touch- The Get Down in San Jose said from their banks. While Inamasu gence in both the United States and Ja- by his longtime volunteer service at athletes across the board have “ShibShow.” Their first episode lor Rapp, who is of Korean Former Olympic gymnast the year campaign, was the 38th ing and doing things and it’s a little her dance studio’s transition to on- and Ashizawa declined to say how pan. He later worked at Contra Costa the Diablo Japanese American Club had their seasons postponed, with Alan Yang, the director of descent, and gymnast Ohashi Kyla Ross recently won the picked. more difficult doing it virtually,” line classes has gone “surprisingly much they received, Osaki said Community College in 1964 where in Concord. He will be remembered and the Olympics has been “Tiger Tail,” is on their Insta- have partnered with California 2020 Honda Sport Award for Inamasu said. pretty well.” She said she and the he initiated and taught in the Asian for his great sense of humor and love “What Ichiro represented the community center secured American Studies program. In 1981, he of storytelling. postponed to next summer. gram page. nonprofits to launch “A Global gymnastics, a prestigious honor went beyond just being a great In San Jose, Wisa Uemura, ex- other instructors have tried to stay $140,000 through the program. became the first Asian American Dean Lastly, Glenn was a devoted hus- However, some Asian Ameri- Call for Racial Solidarity Under for female college athletes, ac- baseball player, not just as the ecutive director of San Jose Taiko, positive, knowing that “what we Representatives from both Japan- in the California Community College band, father, and grand, and great can and Pacific Islander ath- Chloe Kim Covid-19 Pandemic.” cording to the UCLA Athletics first high-profile Japanese posi- said the organization has lost do kind of helps bring up spirit for towns said several businesses system when he joined Laney College grandfather. He is survived by his as its Dean of Student Services. wife Joyce Ayako, sons Ron and Jon, letes are among those helping Snowboarding Olympic gold The campaign led by the glob- Website. During the COVID-19 tion player import but also as the about $50,000 in revenue to date. people that are and nonprofits did out amid the pandemic, while medalist Chloe Kim has donat- al social justice organization for lockdown, the mixed-race Nik- She told the Nichi Bei Weekly that staying at home.” “It’s going to take us receive the PPP In 1986, Glenn joined the faculty daughter Mitzi, 4 grand daughters and guy who spurred that Mariners figure could double as the orga- easily a year … probably at Diablo Valley College (DVC) and a great grandson. He is preceded in other athletes have found other ed a signed used snowboard to athletes opposes the racism and kei retired gymnast is continu- Although most loans aside from served as Counselor and Instructor death by his parents, Katsujiro and team into that absolutely insane nization tries to survive the sum- businesses under- two years to recuperate.” ways to occupy their time. the Center for Disaster Philan- xenophobia directed toward ing to take her online classes 116-win season,” Will Leitch what the Nichi Bei for 10 years, helping to introduce Masae, and siblings, Keiji and Etsuko. mer. The organization has moved stood the impor- — JIM NAGAREDA, co- Weekly could in- Asian American studies while teach- Glenn passed away on February 27, thropy, to encourage others to Asians as a result of the coro- for her molecular, cell and de- wrote in explaining his choice of Alex and Maia Shibutani donate. Donors who contribute navirus pandemic, ESPN’s The velopmental biology major, ac- its classes online, but its concerts tance of adhering owner, Nikkei Traditions dependently con- ing Asian American History until his 2020 at the age of 89. A celebration of the AL’s MVP that year. and performances have all been to the shelter-in- firm. retirement in 1996. However, even in life will be held at a later date. The Olympic figure skat- to the organization’s COVID-19 Undefeated, reported. Ohashi is cording to her Instagram post The rationale for choosing ing duo of siblings Alex and response fund, will have the conducting Friday live poetry of an “Inside Gym,” account canceled like many performance place orders, some wished for the Meanwhile, many of the other Ohtani’s season seventh also set groups. “Essentially, we’re being Maia Shibutani, known as the chance to win the snowboard. reading sessions on her Insta- takeover. orders to be lifted soon. “It’s a lot business owners and nonprofit aside raw numbers, with Mike told by our booking managers, and slower, because we don’t have any heads said they were still hoping For information on placing an obituary, e-mail “Shib Sibs” on social media, In another Instagram post on gram account, @katelyn_ohashi. Petriello citing not only Ohtani’s entire touring presenting field, that tourists,” said Phil Ashizawa, own- have raised more than $32,000 her @chloekim account, Kim According to her April 21 post, Yuta Watanabe to hear back from their banks on [email protected], call (415) 673-1009 impressive performance but his that model is in danger,” she said. er of Soko Hardware in San Fran- the second round of funding. They or visit as of May 6 via a GoFundMe encouraged people to donate to she “wanted to create an inter- With the NBA season on ability to live up to the hype of be- Meanwhile, Jim Nagareda cisco, which has remained open. expressed their frustration with fundraiser to provide front line the philanthropy organization active space where you guys hiatus due to the coronavirus ing an elite two-way player. contemplated how the Japanese Revitalizing the economy, how- the handling of the fund, which www.nichibei.org/nichibeiweekly/obituary workers with personal protec- with a photo of her own $15,000 send your poems to me every pandemic, some players are un- “It’s about how he did some- American Museum of San Jose ever, may not be as simple as lift- initially awarded millions to larger tive equipment. donation. Kim has also teamed Wednesday by noon and I pick winding by playing video games thing no one else could do, and would reopen after shelter-in-place ing the orders. Okamura said he entities such as the Los Angeles Their April 17 @shibsibs Insta- up with Protect Our Winters one or two to join me during or doing home workouts. Yuta what it meant,” Petriello wrote. orders are lifted. is debating whether to keep his Lakers and Harvard University. gram post states, “If you donate and joined the Outdoor State, that week’s live!” Watanabe, a Japanese forward While Sasaki had an impres- “I think we’re kind of waiting diner counter closed. “It’s been very very frustrating. $50 or more to our GoFundMe “a community of more than Ohashi recently teamed up for the Memphis Grizzlies, is sive career in Japan and is now also to hear what the directives will Others, such as Smiley Kai of I’m sure a lot of other people are charity page that directly sup- 50 million passionate skiers, with Gotham Gymnastics in honing his skills. An Instagram enshrined in the Japanese Base- be from the county,” said Nagare- Ukulele Source in San Jose, are experiencing the same thing and ports @getusppe (an organiza- snowboarders, trail runners, New York to help gymnasts post from April 4 shows Wata- ball Hall of Fame, his season was da, the organization’s executive doubtful of the demand for their it’s been very stressful and nerve tion working to solve the criti- mountain bikers, climbers and stay active during quarantine. nabe doing dribbling drills. In a selected near the bottom. director. “I think for sure, we’ll products in the coming months. wracking because I think for a lot have hand sanitizers and things cal PPE shortage crisis on the anglers across the country,” ac- Ohashi, co-founder of the gym series of videos, he’s seen drib- “He only played four years in “I realized it’s been a hardship on of … small businesses are rely- front line), we will schedule cording to another Instagram Daniel Miranda and UCLA head bling a basketball between his like that, but we don’t know if, like a lot of people and ‘ukulele isn’t ing, and hoping that they will be Seattle...and then he left, a year all the volunteers have to wear something that you absolutely a 15-minute call with you and post. coach and Gotham Gymnastics legs while catching a small ball still left on his contract. His pres- granted these funds… to keep your sibling…” advisory board member Valo- and dribbling between his legs face masks or gloves. … I feel like have to have,” he said. their doors open,” Masuda of Yu- ence near the very bottom of this when we first open that we will not Ai Kai said. “From a personal point For more information, vis- Katelyn Ohashi rie Kondos Field participated while bouncing the ball. These list is indicative of just how much it https://charity.gofundme. Katelyn Ohashi, the former in a Q-and-A-format interview drills improve a player’s drib- have docents, because we want The Road to Recovery of view, I think it’s sad. I get upset of a mark and memory he left to protect them from that contact, Professor Martha Olney, an when I do see these million-dollar com/o/en/campaign/getusppe. 10-time All-American UCLA session March 22 that was live bling ability, along with their here,” Leitch wrote. streamed through Instagram, hand-eye coordination. since most of them are elderly.” economic historian at the Univer- companies getting funds when it’s sity of California, Berkeley, said really nonprofits, small business according to “Good Morning In another post on his @ Sumo grand tournament in Looking Toward Reopening the post shelter-in-place economy America.” yutawatanabe12 account, he owners, who could really benefit. May canceled due to virus Though not permanently will depend on whether business- These businesses aren’t asking for uses his 6-foot-8-inch frame to TOKYO (Kyodo) — Sumo’s closed, many businesses, such es are able to implement social millions of dollars. They’re asking Marcus Mariota demonstrate the space people as Nagareda’s co-owned Nikkei distancing rules until the majority for, maybe $100,000. And it could SIGN UP ONLINE: New Las Vegas Raiders quar- should keep from one another governing body announced on Traditions, face considerable chal- of Americans can get vaccinated be spread around and create a www.nichibei.org/subscribe terback Marcus Mariota’s Mo- in social distancing. May 4 the cancellation of the lenges even if the state and coun- from the virus. Although some upcoming Summer Grand Sumo greater impact.” tiv8 Foundation teamed up with ties permit them to reopen. have compared the economic Ultimately, San Francisco and Island Insurance Foundation Rui Hachimura Tournament due to the coronavi- “We think that we’re only go- fallout from the pandemic to rival San Jose’s Japantowns must con- and Keith and Bonny Amemiya Washington Wizards Japa- rus pandemic, while also reveal- ing to be open a few days a week, the 2008 Great Recession and the tinue to bear the impacts of the RATEYEAR MEMBERSHIP TYPE (select ONE) to cover 1,000 free grab-and-go nese rookie sensation Rui ing plans to relocate the follow- and maybe not even the full day 1930s Great Depression, Olney pandemic for the months to come. meals for Kauluwela and Palolo Hachimura appears to be ing top-level meet from Nagoya until everything kind of works its cautioned the economy’s recovery 75 PREMIUM ..... Print AND Digital Edition Acknowledging the neighbor- (includes digital archives) Elementary School students, spending his quarantine, for the to Tokyo. way out,” he said. “We think that from the pandemic will be based hoods’ older community mem- during the coronavirus lock- most part, relaxing, as the NBA The Summer Grand Tour- people are still going to be scared on entirely different factors. bers, business owners expressed 65 PRINT ...... Print Edition ONLY down in Honolulu, according has postponed play. The ninth nament had been scheduled for a while to go out shopping and “So the difference is going to be their wishes for the communities to the Honolulu Star-Advertis- overall pick in last year’s NBA to take place between May 24 things like that. So, we assume that that, usually when we’re talking to remain safe until things go back 60 DIGITAL ...... Digital Edition ONLY and June 7 at Tokyo’s Ryogoku even after we open …, it’s going to about a recovery, we talk about to “normal.” er. Three-hundred breakfasts draft played in a basketball vid- please make checks payable to “Nichi Bei Foundation” and lunches will be distributed eo game (NBA 2k) tournament. Kokugikan after the Japan Sumo be slow for another month or two.” whether goods are necessities “It’s going to be really different, Nagareda also said he’s worried or not, how does the pattern of daily at Kauluwela Elementary Hachimura lost to Phoenix Association delayed the opening I mean people talk about a new PURCHASER’S INFORMATION: School and 200 breakfasts and Suns star Devin Booker in the of the 15-day meet by two weeks about rent. “Luckily, our landlord demand re-arise in each of those normal. Well, I’m hoping this is not NAME: 200 lunches at Palolo Elemen- quarterfinals of the tournament in response to the outbreak. was very generous, and he offered kinds of industries? Now we’re going to be a new normal,” Osaki to charge us half rent through this gonna be talking about ‘is this an tary School, the newspaper re- on April 9, according to an NBC The cancellation is the third said. “Once we figured this out, ADDRESS: month,” he said. “Hopefully he’ll industry in which social distanc- and we have a vaccine, (I hope) ported. The meals were expect- Sports article. in sumo history, and the first CITY: STATE:IP: since the March 2011 grand extend that one more month, but ing is feasible, impossible, feasible that things will go back to what it ed to be distributed between Hachimura took over the PHONE:() E-MAIL: tournament was shelved due to we still have to pay that. … There but difficult.’ And that’s really go- used to be like and people won’t March 30 and April 30, with the Wizards’ Twitter account and still are expenses that we have to a match-fixing scandal. ing to determine the pattern of mind being in large events or con- possibility of the time frame ex- hosted a Q-&-A with the team’s meet, and it’s going to take us eas- recovery.” fined in rooms, taking classes or Send payment to: Nichi Bei Foundation tending to the end of the school followers on April 14. ily a year … probably two years to Olney expects certain indus- coming in contact with with peo- P.O. Box 15693, San Francisco, CA 94115 year, on May 29, depending on TO PLACE YOUR LEAGUE’S SCORES recuperate.” tries, including the restaurant and ple, or giving hugs and being able the state’s Department of Edu- Compiled by Derek Tahara/ e-mail: [email protected] Nagareda, along with other tourism industries, to continue to to laugh without having a mask cation school schedule, the ar- Nichi Bei Weekly business owners, said their sup- face hardship even after the shel- over your mouth.”

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