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Museums in Los Angeles: One of these is not like the others No Comments Posted By: Marsha Takeda-Morrison Topics: Family Vacations From guest blogger Marsha Takeda-Morrison of Sweatpantsmom As in most major cities, there is no shortage of great museums in Los Angeles.  We’ve got our

A diet rich in omega-3 fats may explain why middle-aged men in Japan have fewer problems with clogged arteries than similar men in theUnited States.s. The research found that Japanese men living in Japan had twice the blood levels of omega-3 fats, and also lower levels of atherosclerosis, compared to middle-aged white men or Japanese-American men living in the United States.

Every year on this date, in honor of Aunt Terry, a nisei aunt interned at Manzanar, California during World War II, we mark the anniversary of the world’s first wartime nuclear bomb blast. Thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima today at Peace Memorial Park to mark the 63rd anniversary of the unleashing of “Little Boy” and its lethal aftermath.

I went to go see this movie with my dad on Sunday. It was called Sword of the Stranger in English. It was being shown in some really small theater downtown called Imaginasian. My good old dad said it used to be a Toho movie theater (or another Ja... Read and post comments | Send to a friend

by Jennifer, crossposted from Mixed Race America [Warning: this is a LONG but IMPORTANT post about a current court ruling that EVERYONE should know about. Feel free to skim the first part of this post, but PLEASE make sure you read the last part] I know it's a cliche to say that history repeats, but sometimes cliches have grains of truth that are hard to ignore.

Canterbury II July 19th, 2008 Posted in Lambeth Conference | The Revd Todd Wetzel, Anglicans United & Latimer Press The place, this ancient Canterbury, humbles the pilgrim with the weight of history and charms with its Medieval, Tudor and Victorian architecture.

[Waring: this is a LONG but IMPORTANT post about a current court ruling that EVERYONE should know about. Feel free to skim the first part of this post, but PLEASE make sure you read the last part] I know it's a cliche to say that history repeats, but sometimes cliches have grains of truth that are hard to ignore.

Maybe not as popular as the band that he’s in but Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has created a buzz with his paintings. Now he has his second major exhibit, called Glorious Excess, on Saturday (July 12) at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

The following excerpt is taken from page 111 in the book Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress by Mitchell T. Maki, Harry H.L. Kitano, and S Megan Berthold. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999: "The commission [Commission on Wartime Relocation and