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Each spring and fall, a group of 20 or so explores various parts of Japan for an immersive, exciting two weeks. We take the subways and buses, literally rubbing shoulders with the locals, and do a lot ...
By Vy Nguyen and Elena Arakaki NAP Contributors The corner of 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street in Seattle, Washington is home – but the people who have called it home have changed over the ...
In June, a Sunday Sake Social was held at Seattle First Hill Clubhouse. Participating breweries included Urakasumi and Ichinokura from Miyagi Prefecture in Japan, and Harushika from Nara Prefecture in ...
Stan Shikuma TFS Campaign Co-chair accepts award. Together with our partner organization La Resistencia in Washington, Tsuru for Solidarity is honored to receive the César Chávez Human Rights Award ...
By Tsuru for Solidarity NAP Contributor TFS National Executive Director Mike Ishii received the Min Yasui Culture Igniting Activism Award. Photo credit: Lynda Joko. In April the Minoru Yasui Legacy ...
When she was a young girl, Yvette had taken in an injured crow, whom she named “Arthur.” She nursed it back to health and then set it free. When she married Art, her mother noted that with Art’s black ...
The Meydenbauer main stage was awash with color during the last day of this year’s Japan Fair, as models strutted back and forth in dazzling kimonos provided by Kimono Art of Seattle and Kobe, Japan ...
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first arrival of Southeast Asian refugees in Washington, a new book from Legacy Washington, “ New Land: Southeast Asian Refugees Finding Home in ...