Financial Moves for Widows and Widowers
By Chiaki Hirate If you’ve recently become a widow or widower, you’re obviously dealing with an enormous emotional burden, and coping with your grief can seem like a full-time struggle. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleRuthann Kurose on Her Parents’ Legacy
Interview by Elaine Ikoma Ko, Special to The North American Post Photos courtesy of Kurose family In Seattle, the Kurose family name is both legendary and synonymous with peace, activism, and community...
View ArticleArisa Nakamura wins 2020 CGJ-Seattle Art Competition
Graphic artist Arisa Nakamura was among five winners of the 2020 Consulate-General of Japan Art contest, announced September 1. The competition was set up to encourage public art expression during the...
View ArticleBehind the Tadaima! Scenes with Kimiko Marr of Japanese American Memorial...
by Tamiko Nimura I met Yonsei Kimiko Marr through social media and an online network of Japanese American activists and pilgrimage organizers. The network has become so active that over the past few...
View ArticleLetter from the New Consul General of Japan
I am introducing myself as the new Consul General of Japan in Seattle. First, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to those and their families in the U.S., in Japan, and around the world who...
View ArticleRadio & Records
By Deems Tsutakawa For The North American Post Unbeknownst to many music lovers I actually put out two 45 RPM vinyl records back in the Seventies. It was the beginning of my one man record company...
View ArticleNo Longer “Emily Doe”
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post EVERY ONCE in a while, a book comes along that changes the national conversation and moves our country—and the world—forward. “Know My Name,” the September...
View ArticleNew Bruce Lee Book
Doug Palmer, a long-time friend of Bruce Lee and one of his youngest martial arts students, recounts Lee’s early years, when he would train a multicultural group of local toughs in empty parking lots...
View ArticleMika Kurose Rothman: On a Third Generation of Family Activism
Interview by Elaine Ikoma Ko, Special for The North American Post Photos courtesy of Kurose family This issue features the second article of a two-part interview series. The first part was with Ruthann...
View ArticleLiberty and Justice for All
by Mae Iseri Yamada At 7:30 pm on December 7, 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Dad was picked up by Police Chief Imhoff of Kent, who was an FBI agent. Dad was already in bed, but he put...
View ArticleBenefits of Vitamin D Against COVID-19
by Geraldine Shu, for The North American Post Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been occasional suggestions to take vitamin D to combat respiratory infections such as COVID-19. Lately,...
View ArticleLearning From the Issei Grandfather I Never Met
by Tamiko Nimura “What you are feeling is grief,” says the article from Harvard Business Review. And yes, living in COVID-19 in Washington State, March 2020 feels like a kind of grief, even though I...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment Choices Can Have Big Financial Impact
By Chiaki Hirate It’s that time of year again, where, if you work for a medium-to-large employer, you’ve got some decisions to make because it’s open enrollment time. Of course, depending on your...
View ArticleKobe Mask Donation
In August, the city of Seattle received a donation of 10,000 face masks from its sister city of Kobe, Japan. The masks are being distributed to first responders (police and firefighters), human...
View ArticleNew Norman Mineta Curriculum
On September 10, a new, interactive, free curriculum, “What Does It Mean To Be An American?,” was released to the public online by the Mineta Legacy Project and the Stanford Program on International...
View ArticleDensho Dinner@Home
Join Densho for an inspiring evening of community, remembrance and solidarity. Tom Ikeda, Executive Director, writes, “While we can’t gather in person, we can still come together in community to...
View ArticleApprove Washington Referendum 90, Sex Ed in Public Schools
By Gabrielle Nomura Gainor, for the North American Post I am the descendant of individuals who often did not get a voice. My mother gave birth to me at 18 with her high school boyfriend who was not...
View ArticleKatsura Sunshine Rakugo Storytelling
by N.A.P. Washin Kai and Town Hall Seattle welcome renowned entertainer Katsura Sunshine for a special performance of unique storytelling called rakugo. Rakugo (from the kanji for Kyoto, the capital, +...
View Article‘The Inland Sea’
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post Note: This essay was submitted in January, in advance of the April NAP Japan tour, which was postponed, first to this fall; then indefinitely. Yet, we might...
View ArticleMayor Ed Lee
As a child, I attended John Muir Elementary in the Mount Baker area of Seattle. During the 50’s and early 60’s, the student body was about ninety percent Caucasian. That, of course, has changed...
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