NikkeiWest--Northern California Japanese American Newspaper

The Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC) will present San Jose’s 32nd annual Day of Remembrance event to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, during World War II.

By Paul Yamamoto and Kim Tachiki—It all began in 1989 with the simple goal of keeping an ever-growing family connected and renewing increasingly distant ties. Over 22 years and twelve family reunions later, that simple goal has become a treasured and activity-filled tradition enthusiastically called “The Endo Family Reunion.” Every two years during an extended 4th of July weekend, over 200 relatives from five interrelated clans travel from across the country and in some cases across the world to re-acquaint and recreate at planned indoor and outdoor activities in Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe.

By Cody Kitaura—The people who played baseball for Masato “Mauch” Yamashita knew not to try to pay for anything.

By Cody Kitaura—On a narrow, rural street in Granite Bay, a century-old farm is adapting Japanese tradition to modern tastes and blended cultures.