On Saturday, February 7, UCLA’s Nikkei Student Union hosted “Kizuna,” their 40th annual Cultural Night in Royce Hall. Co-written by Eve Mori and Sohei Wu, the production commemorated the 84th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which forcibly removed over 125,000 Japanese Americans to ten incarceration…

From children bending backwards to play with dinosaurs as meteors fall from the sky, to moth-people inviting viewers to tranquility at the end of a forest road engulfed in orange groves, renowned Japanese artist Aya Takano’s gallery exhibit, “how deep how far we can go,” brought together new…