By STEVE GIBSON and HEATHER NOGAMINikkei Progressives Immigration Committee The drive from Little Tokyo to Adelanto takes just under two hours, past the chaparral of the Cajon Pass and into the Joshua ...

By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSSRafu Sports Editor For the first time in the 30-year history of the Women’s National Basketball ...

By JUDD MATSUNAGA, ESQ. Years ago, I was at a Las Vegas show when comedian George Wallace asked a mid-70-ish Nisei woman to stand up as he “worked the crowd.” She gladly stood up, and as he gently ...

On Oct. 17, the Greater Los Angeles JACL hosted a Get Out the Vote table at the “No Kings” rally outside Torrance City Hall. It was a nonpartisan campaign to help people register to vote. Then JACL ...

Judges on the Nov. 3 ballot under state judicial positions include the following: Mark K. Hanasono, associate justice, Court of Appeal, 2nd District, Division 3 In May 2025, Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Emiko Fujino (née Fujii), 102, passed away on September 29, 2026. Born in Los Angeles on May 9, 1924, to Akira and Tamayo Fujii, she was the eldest of three children. Her family moved to Japan during ...

The Japanese American Citizens League issued the following statement on Oct. 13: “JACL stands with Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and her family after federal agents searched her D.C. home early on Oct.

Walter Koenig, who played navigator Pavel Chekov in the original “Star Trek,” died from natural causes at his home in North Hollywood on Oct. 25 at the age of 90. Koenig, who also played Chekov in ...

A special Veterans Day screening of “The Volunteer” and panel discussion will be held on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Main Hall of Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute, 1964 W. 162nd ...

On Oct. 9, 1990, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh presented the first redress checks to nine survivors of Japanese American wartime incarceration in a special ceremony held in Washington, D.C. This ...