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Consignment Boutique for Baby and Children’s Clothing
Kuniko Jacobson is the owner of store in downtown Bellevue. Jacobson is mom to three children, the youngest of whom is just three months old. The store sells clothes and shoes for newborns to...
View ArticleDisplacement Concerns Burst Out at Town Hall Meeting
by Misa Cartier (Photo by Nick Turner) Nisei Veterans Hall in the Little Saigon neighborhood of the International District (ID) was filled with community members joining a Town Hall meeting on the...
View ArticleFrom Hiroshima to Hope at Green Lake
by Nick Turner It’s been 72 years since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. One was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, the other just three...
View ArticleCommunity Panel Draws Parallels Between Muslim American and Japanese American...
by Nick Turner Aneela Afzali was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. One day, when she was walking down the boardwalk along Alki Beach, somebody driving by opened their window and shouted obscenities and told...
View ArticleHokkaido Ramen Comes to University Village
Santouka, a ramen chain that began in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, is opening its second Washington restaurant at University Village this Saturday, August 5. The restaurant, right across from the children’s...
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BorderLands uses City’s New Art Space to present creative works of...
by Nick Turner, The North American Post As tragedy and horror begin to hold a regular place in the daily news, people sometimes forget that those things that set them apart are often the same things...
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Okinawa Students Participate in 33rd Okinawa Times Homestay Program
by Minami Okada, Translated by Bruce Rutledge The North American Post Twenty-two middle and high schoolers from Okinawa came to Seattle this summer to take part in homestays from July 26 through August...
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The challenge of “MIZUBASHO” brand bringing high-grade sake to the world’s...
By Misa Murohashi, translated by Ritsuko Morimura Mizubasho is a sake brand which has been on the wine lists of Michelin three-star restaurants such as Daniel in New York and El Bulli in Spain. Nagai...
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Osara Commissary in Pike Place Market brings contemporary Japanese products,...
by Nick Turner, The North American Post A new business made its modest beginnings in a sunlit room in the lower levels of Pike Place Market just days ago. Osara Commissary, owned by Mikako Hamaguchi...
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Consignment Boutique for Baby and Children’s Clothing
Kuniko Jacobson is the owner of store, Hopscotch Consignment Boutique in downtown Bellevue. Jacobson is mom to three children, the youngest of whom is just three months old. The store sells clothes...
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Bellevue World TAIKO Festival on October 6 & 7
Japan Creative Arts and the School of TAIKO presents the third annual ” Bellevue World TAIKO Festival” which sold out event with gathering audience from all over the US in past events. Audiences can...
View ArticleJ-style Yoshoku Coming to Bothell Café Soleil chefs start Yoshoku menu at...
by Minami Okada, Translated by Misa Murohashi The North American Post Nakagawa, a Japanese restaurant in Bothell, will begin serving Japanese style yoshoku dishes in September. Nakagawa is owned by...
View ArticleAn American Dream tells A Japanese American story through Opera
In a time where those perceived as outsiders continue to face discrimination in the U.S., Seattle Opera presents an American story of justice denied. The forced removal of Japanese Americans during...
View ArticleCorn and Rice with Corn Silk Tea
By Kanako Koizumi What is your favorite corn dish? Corn is one of the most widely consumed grains in the world, and no matter where you are from, you probably have fond memories and personal stories...
View ArticleA Lifelong Pilgrimage
By Nick Turner The North American Post About two months ago, I found myself staring at the entrance of a rectangular building in a dry field somewhere in southern Idaho. Inside, it was empty. Dust was...
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Kobe Business Seminar Report -Why Kobe makes an attractive business base
By Misa Murohashi (Translation by Bruce Rutledge) This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Kobe-Seattle sister city relationship. In 1956, the Seattle mayor requested the city’s first sister city...
View ArticleMusic of Remembrance 2017-2018 features music commissions inspired by...
Since 1998, Music of Remembrance (MOR) has commissioned over 30 new works that honor the victims of injustice and persecution. That legacy continues with MOR’s 20th season, Voices of Witness, featuring...
View Article75th Remembrance of Puyallup Assembly Center
The year 2017 marks the 75th year of Executive Order 9066 which forcibly removed and incarcerated over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. The Washington State Fairgrounds was a...
View ArticleJCCCW Omoide program features “Minidoka Memoirs” book
by Atsushi Kikuchi of JCCCW, For The North American Post The Omoide (Memories) program resumes on September 16 with the “Minidoka Memoirs” book presentation by the Fujii sisters of Seattle. Their...
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Ng wins Cultural Ambassador prize
by Bruce Rutledge The annual Mayor’s Arts Awards program, held on the Seattle Center grounds the day before the Bumbershoot music festival, chose Assunta Ng, founder of the Seattle Chinese Post and...
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