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Marie Rose Wong, Community chronicler turns her eye to prewar Nikkei baseball
Dr. Marie Rose Wong of Seattle University is one of our foremost chroniclers of life in the International District. Wong published last year a groundbreaking and exhaustive history of Seattle’s...
View ArticleFoods Come to Festival in Variety
The Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival has introduced new foods at its food booth in previous years. This year, the festival will add the festival special amagashi sweet by Tokara...
View ArticleSuccessful Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival Draws Thousands of Visitors with...
Original Issue Date: May 7, 1979 Translated by The North American Post Staff The Seat tle Cher ry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival was held last Friday and Saturday at Seattle Center. While...
View Article‘Pig Day Out’ at Pike Place Market
by Bruce Rutledge, the North American Post The Pike Place Market Foundation will be celebrating the Year of the Pig/Boar this March 1 with a day of prizes, events, and pig races. Festivities kick off...
View ArticleJapan Tour 2019 details are revealed
by N.A.P The North American Post revealed its annual Japan Tour rates and itinerary in early February. Tour orientation will be held on Saturday March 2nd 3:00-4:30 pm at The Japanese Cultural and...
View ArticleNew Seattle-Japan flights on deck
by Bruce Rutledge, the North American Post Travel from Seattle to Japan is about to get much easier. Japan Airlines will return to Seatac International Airport for the first time since 1992 with a...
View ArticleJCCCW’s Omoide Story : Lessons My Mother Taught Me
by Dolly Miyoko Hiroo Tokunaga, For the North American Post My friend Kazuko lived in the same barrack as me. We lived in adjoining units- hers in the middle unit and mine, next to her family. Each...
View ArticleSANSEI JOURNAL : A Seattle Map of Olde
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post HERE AND THERE IN SEATTLE, we can find interesting things right in front of our noses?“me to hana no saki”?if we pay attention. One such place is the...
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Amazake – Fermented Rice Drink
Makes about 2 cups of concentrated amazake | Prep time 40 minutes (including time for cooking rice) | Cook time 8 hours On Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day or Doll’s Festival) in Japan, we celebrate the...
View ArticleTOUGH TOFU – I Like My Car
By Deems Tsutakawa For The North American Post Jay Leno used to say that the best time of day for him was when he was driving to work to host The Tonight Show. He loves his job, his cars, and loves...
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Kuniko Takamura – Seattle Miyagi-kai
Even if you don’t recognize the name of Michio Miyagi, a gifted koto player, you may have heard of his most famous song, “Haru no Umi,” a classic song often played during New Year’s celebrations....
View ArticleLegacy of Great Americans lives on
It was fitting to have the Nisei Veterans Memorial Hall host the showing of the film “For the Sake of the Children” on Saturday 23 Feb 2019. The film reveals the long-term impact of war-time injustice...
View ArticleJapanese American Leaders Visit Tokyo and Kumamoto to Meet with Top Japanese...
by Shiori Okazaki, U.S.-Japan Council (Retrieved from U.S.-Japan Council press release on Feb 26th) Ten Japanese American leaders are traveling to Japan from March 1 to 9 on the 2019 Japanese American...
View ArticleKorematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2019
by Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of Japanese American National Museum (Retrieved from The Japanese American National Museum press release on March 5th) The Japanese American National Museum applauds...
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Drumming for History: The Annual Minidoka Pilgrimage Day of Remembrance Taiko...
By Tamiko Nimura Around the country, Japanese American Days of Remembrance are commemorated with keynote speakers, with candlelighting, with marches, and even (this year) with bystander training for...
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SANSEI JOURNAL: Everything Comes From China
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post THESE DAYS, everything comes from China. However, the phrase also fits the distant past. In autumn, I began reading a book on this topic, “The Man Who Loved...
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Meeting my family in Okayama
North American Post Japan Tour Traveler’s Report Series By Roy Namba, For The North American Post Thanks to the North American Post and the Hokubei Hochi Foundation, I had a wonderful opportunity to...
View ArticleCommunity Seniors Gather to Respond to Future Chinatown Transit Plans
On March 13th, community members who live and work in Chinatown-International District gathered to hear Sound Transit’s plans for future light rail extension projects and how they will affect the CID....
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Patti Hirahara – One woman’s mission to preserve the memory of Yakima...
More than one thousand people of Japanese descent were shipped to incarceration camps from the Yakima area in 1942. The central Washington community, which supported Japantowns in Wapato and Yakima,...
View ArticleSeattle EcoSangha Seminar at Betsuin
By N.A.P Retrieved from Seattle Buddhist Church press release On Saturday, April 20, Seattle EcoSangha will present a seminar, In Touch With the Earth, on the environment from a Buddhist perspective...
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