Bon Odori is a traditional Japanese folk dance performed during the Obon season. People of all ages wear yukata (summer kimono) and dance in a circle around a raised platform called a yagura, ...

Yukiko “Yu” Ugawa was born in Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. She married into a long-established kimono shop in Kobe, Japan, called Kaneshou and aspired to become a professional kimono ...

A newly completed film, “Our Mr. Matsura,” is the story of Frank S. Matsura, a beloved immigrant Japanese photographer in the ...

My passion for life comes from the curiosity to find what kind of scenery is waiting for me when I turn the next corner.” These words perfectly capture the spirit of Sam Takahashi at 84 years old — a ...

About 250 pilgrims gathered in Twin Falls, Idaho, for the 2025 Minidoka Pilgrimage in July. Over the course of four days, we laughed, we cried, we listened intently to survivors of incarceration, we ...

When the press conference was over, Suzuki headed to the dugout and later emerged to throw out the first pitch to another Mariners’ legend, Randy Johnson (also a Hall of Famer.) It was a wild weekend ...

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Tickets start at $10 and can be purchased at: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/pork-filled/exotic-deadly . For more info, email: [email protected] or text (206) 486-0375 or go to ...

This summer Friends of Waterfront Park (Friends) and the City of Seattle invite the public to a defining civic moment: the official Grand Opening Celebration of Seattle’s 20-acre Waterfront Park on ...