With stringed lights twinkling above the Fowler Museum courtyard and colored spotlights illuminating the stage, Raunak Rupani entered with his two guitars, smiling at the crowd. Last Thursday, the Fowler Out Loud concert series hosted two diverse musical acts. To open the night was +Adam, a fusion and spoken word band inspired by the riot…
For the past 29 years, UCLA’s Nikkei Student Union (NSU) has put together a cultural night commemorating Japanese culture and remembering those who were incarcerated during World War II. This years theme, Worlds Apart, explores the differences between American and Japanese cultures and the trials of assimilation faced by many Nisei.
So I got to see Miyazaki do a rare in-person interview with Roland Kelts last month in Berkeley. I didn’t have the best of seats, but it was still a memorable experience nonetheless. I gotta say, I don’t know of any Japanese animator (or animator, period, other than maybe John Lasseter) who is as revered…
On July 16, the University of California Board of Regents voted to grant honorary degrees to approximately 700 Japanese-Americans forced to discontinue their studies at the UC for internment during World War II. After Roosevel’s 1942 executive order, students of Japanese ancestry at UC Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Davis were removed by the…
For those of us in the LA area, the Japanese American National Museum holds historical tours of Little Tokyo at the end of each month. This month’s tour is on Saturday, February 28 at 10:15 am. The website’s description of the tour: Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $8…