Nisei Week Festival/Little Tokyo/Related

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Anybody wanna learn Taiko? Now's your chance: http://www.taikoproject.com/media/Spring2012TaikoClasses.pdf

[gaijinmark]

Nice article about Little Tokyo and it's future: http://m.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/04/fight-save-los-angeless-little-tokyo/1709/#.T4QgkugMYu0.facebook

[bmwracer]

gaijinmark wrote:

Nice article about Little Tokyo and it's future: http://m.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/04/fight-save-los-angeless-little-tokyo/1709/#.T4QgkugMYu0.facebook

Good article.

[gaijinmark]

2011 Nisei Week Queen and Court at the 2012 Honolulu Cherry Blossom Festival:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUIe19Y8TDo&feature=youtu.be

[bmwracer]

^ Looks like they were having a pretty good time.

[Tu_triky]

bmwracer wrote:

^ Looks like they were having a pretty good time.

Must be nice.

[bmwracer]

Tu_triky wrote:

Must be nice.

Better to be in Japan gorging yourself.

[Tu_triky]

bmwracer wrote:

Better to be in Japan gorging yourself.

Well it isn't like there is a dearth of good looking women there either. But yeah, I'm more of a city slicker. I am not really into hanging out by the beach and just chilling for extended periods of time...I'd get too bored, although I'm sure Hawaii is lovely. It's one place I haven't actually been to yet.

[gaijinmark]

Less than 3 months to go!!

This year's Nisei Week schedule is out: http://www.niseiweek.org/events/calendar.php

[bmwracer]

gaijinmark wrote:

Less than 3 months to go!! This year's Nisei Week schedule is out: http://www.niseiweek.org/events/calendar.php

Hope I get the chance to go this year...

[gaijinmark]

L.A. City Council right on top of things as usual.


L.A. County repeals 1942 support for Japanese American internment


LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- The Los Angeles County board of supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to repeal its 1942 resolution supporting the internment of Japanese Americans shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, which led the United States to enter World War II.

"To ignore this and to leave it as unfinished business is essentially to trivialize it, and we chose not to trivialize this travesty," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas as he introduced the issue at the board's meeting.

On Jan. 27, 1942, the board passed a resolution urging the U.S. federal government to forcibly remove Japanese American residents, saying it was difficult "if not impossible to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Japanese aliens."

Less than a month later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an order that put the nation's nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans in remote internment camps for up to three years. Nearly one-third came from L.A. County.

The result was mass pain and hardship, Japanese American leaders, including former detainees or their descendants, testified before the vote.

"I wish this (vote) had happened during the lifetimes of my great-grandfather, who lost everything...and my father who was born behind barbed wire," said Greg Kimura, head of the Japanese American National Museum.

Actor George Takei, 75, who portrayed Mr. Sulu in the "Star Trek" TV series, also testified in support of the motion and recounted being forced to leave his home for a camp almost 2,000 miles away when he was 5 years old. Takei then thanked the county board "for making history right, so that we can face the future having extracted important lessons from our democracy."

Seventy years after internment, U.S. institutions continue to recognize the Japanese American war experience.

"In aggregate, this has created a healing process for the community," said Don Nose, president of the Go For Broke National Education Center, a nonprofit organization with educational programs about the history of the Japanese American veterans of the war.

But the delay of such recognition is part of "the legacy of the internment," Takei told reporters after the vote.

"Because it was such a painful and shameful experience for the generation that experienced it, they were silenced. It's only now...that the next generation is learning the details. So these actions today are not too late," Takei said.

[Tu_triky]

gaijinmark wrote:

L.A. City Council right on top of things as usual. L.A. County repeals 1942 support for Japanese American internment LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- The Los Angeles County board of supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to repeal its 1942 resolution supporting the internment of Japanese Americans shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, which led the United States to enter World War II. "To ignore this and to leave it as unfinished business is essentially to trivialize it, and we chose not to trivialize this travesty," said Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas as he introduced the issue at the board's meeting. On Jan. 27, 1942, the board passed a resolution urging the U.S. federal government to forcibly remove Japanese American residents, saying it was difficult "if not impossible to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Japanese aliens." Less than a month later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an order that put the nation's nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans in remote internment camps for up to three years. Nearly one-third came from L.A. County. The result was mass pain and hardship, Japanese American leaders, including former detainees or their descendants, testified before the vote. "I wish this (vote) had happened during the lifetimes of my great-grandfather, who lost everything...and my father who was born behind barbed wire," said Greg Kimura, head of the Japanese American National Museum. Actor George Takei, 75, who portrayed Mr. Sulu in the "Star Trek" TV series, also testified in support of the motion and recounted being forced to leave his home for a camp almost 2,000 miles away when he was 5 years old. Takei then thanked the county board "for making history right, so that we can face the future having extracted important lessons from our democracy." Seventy years after internment, U.S. institutions continue to recognize the Japanese American war experience. "In aggregate, this has created a healing process for the community," said Don Nose, president of the Go For Broke National Education Center, a nonprofit organization with educational programs about the history of the Japanese American veterans of the war. But the delay of such recognition is part of "the legacy of the internment," Takei told reporters after the vote. "Because it was such a painful and shameful experience for the generation that experienced it, they were silenced. It's only now...that the next generation is learning the details. So these actions today are not too late," Takei said.

How gracious and timely an act.

[qilver]

Tu_triky wrote:

Well it isn't like there is a dearth of good looking women there either. But yeah, I'm more of a city slicker. I am not really into hanging out by the beach and just chilling for extended periods of time...I'd get too bored, although I'm sure Hawaii is lovely. It's one place I haven't actually been to yet.

yeah, it was great for me being in Kyoto visiting, even some of the city-life in Fukuoka, but for me it was all about being in the bright-lights of Tokyo where the food and where it happens. I think i'd get too bored being in the country-side for too long before i would want to visit Tokyo again.

Hawaii was great to visit too, and this calm-easy going environment, Oahu is probably the island that has some city-life excitement, but not much compared to say an abundance of a metropolis of Tokyo has to offer.
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[gaijinmark]

AVEX is having a talent search locally: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/06/avex-launches-talent-search-in-l-a/

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Nice little article by KCET about Little Tokyo: http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/little-tokyo/east-first-street-memories-of-little-tokyo.html

[bmwracer]

gaijinmark wrote:

Nice little article by KCET about Little Tokyo: http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/little-tokyo/east-first-street-memories-of-little-tokyo.html

Interesting article.

[gaijinmark]

2012 Nisei Week Queen candidates:




Front row (L-R) Erika Fisher, Lauren Tanaka-Arii, Sarah Fujimoto, and Emily Folick.

Back row (L-R) Kaitlynn Sakurai, Crystal Hanano, and Marci Asao.

What cracks me up is if you read the following posts, neither one of the two guys complaining about the lack of "racial purity" in the candidates is Japanese!!

[Tu_triky]

gaijinmark wrote:

2012 Nisei Week Queen candidates: Front row (L-R) Erika Fisher, Lauren Tanaka-Arii, Sarah Fujimoto, and Emily Folick. Back row (L-R) Kaitlynn Sakurai, Crystal Hanano, and Marci Asao.

So what Nisei Week celebration is this for?

[gaijinmark]

Tu_triky wrote:

So what Nisei Week celebration is this for?

Nisei Week. Just for my own fyi so I won't forget. I just took inventory and I have Tofu Festival t-shirts from 2004, 2006, and 2007 and Nisei Week t-shirts from 1990, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012.

[Tu_triky]

gaijinmark wrote:

Nisei Week.

Where? Harbin, China?