Fresh Return to Business
The farmers’ market at Wilson Park in Torrance has reopened on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with strict social distancing rules in effect. Kevin Yasutomi, whose family has been farming for 26 years, is...
View ArticleTaking Aim
Marukai employee Kayla Luna takes temperatures of customers before they enter the Japanese market in Little Tokyo on Wednesday. In addition to social distancing, many supermarkets are taking customers’...
View ArticleA Double Whammy
By TOMOKO NAGAI, Rafu Japanese Staff Writer Two local Japanese restaurant owners have been faced with double troubles — the impact of the coronavirus crisis on business and literally being robbed. Yet...
View ArticleHow Little Tokyo Restaurant Regulars Are Supporting Their Favorite Businesses
By TAYLOR WEIK Those who are local to Little Tokyo can expect to run into someone they know at one of the many neighborhood restaurants on any given day. As a community that has a colorful history of...
View ArticleGov. Ige Extends Stay-at-Home Order Across Hawaii Through May 31
HONOLULU – Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed a sixth supplementary emergency proclamation extending the stay-at-home order across the state through May 31. “This was not an easy decision. I know this has...
View ArticleDigital Town Hall: ‘Asian Americans in the Time of COVID-19’
In connection with the upcoming PBS series “Asian Americans,” the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), WETA, and Asian American community leaders will host a digital town hall exploring how lessons...
View ArticleNew HHS Spokesman Deleted Series of Anti-Asian Tweets
WASHINGTON — Michael Caputo, the new spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is being accused of racism after his tweets about Asians and the coronavirus have surfaced. CNN...
View ArticleBeach Is Closed
With beaches opening up north in Ventura County and south in Orange County this past weekend, crowds of people came out to enjoy the unseasonable warm weather, but this was the contrasting scene at...
View ArticleAlumni Physician Sisters Battle COVID-19 in Three Cities
By ERIN KINNEY, Punahou The Kagihara sisters – Jamie ’04, Jodi ’06 and Jaclyn ’08 – are physicians fighting COVID-19. Jamie is a pulmonary critical care intensivist at Torrance Memorial Medical Center...
View Article80th Nisei Week Japanese Festival Postponed
The Nisei Week Foundation made the following announcement on Friday. =*= In light of the continual COVID-19 public health concerns and based on the recommendations made by the U.S. Centers for Disease...
View ArticleNourishing Body and Spirit
By ANNAKAI HAYAKAWA GESHLIDER, Rafu Staff Intern Japanese American community centers in L.A. County have closed in recent weeks, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Spring events have been...
View ArticleCounty Finds Coronavirus Cases Among Kei-Ai Residents, Including Deaths
Rafu Staff and Wire Reports As of April 30, the latest figures from the Los Angeles County Health Department for coronavirus cases at institutional settings included the following: Kei-Ai South Bay...
View ArticleOpen for Business in Torrance
Eastgate Plaza on Carson and Western in Torrance is the former location of Mitsuwa, which has relocated to Del Amo Fashion Center. However, the mall has many other businesses, most of which are still...
View ArticleShibutani Siblings Raise Over $30K to Provide PPE to Healthcare Workers
Olympic Bronze Medalist Ice Dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani have created a GoFundMe page to raise money to provide PPE (personal protective equipment) to health care workers on the front lines....
View ArticleReps. Lieu, Barragan Urge Release, Home Confinement of Federal Prisoners in...
WASHINGTON — Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) and Nanette Barragan (D-San Pedro) on April 30 sent a letter to the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons calling for the release or home confinement of all...
View ArticleConsulate Staff Member Tests Positive for Coronavirus
The Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles made the following announcement on April 23: “On April 22 (local time), we learned that one local staff member at our Consulate General tested positive for...
View ArticleBlooming Art Gallery Designs New Display Window for Cafe Dulce
Interview by PHOENIX TSO Translated by MAIKO HIRATA The COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on Little Tokyo’s small businesses. Cafes like James Choi’s Café Dulce have had to reduce service to takeout and...
View ArticleOnline Town Halls to Address COVID-19 and Xenophobia
“Rise: Asian Pacific America” is a series of online town halls to respond to the anti-Asian hate occurring throughout the country in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout Asian Pacific...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Testing Now Open for All L.A. County Residents
By TOMOKO NAGAI, Rafu Japanese Reporter Residents of L.A. County, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not, are now free to take a COVID-19 test. So I made an appointment immediately. With the...
View ArticleJACL Rebukes 2020 Wisconsin Justice’s Comparisons to JA Experience
In a May 5 hearing before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Justice Rebecca Bradley sought to make comparisons between the state-ordered “Safer at Home” guidelines and the mass incarceration of 120,000...
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