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Woodburn Company received Supplier of the Year 2018 by the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council. Left to right: business partner Ben Johnson, Frank and Penny Fukui, and employee ...

Outside view of the Pavilion at the Portland Japanese Garden. Courtesy of Portland Japanese Garden. For more than a decade, Behind the Shoji has been one of Portland Japanese Garden’s most anticipated ...

As you may know, Toshiko Hasegawa won re-election as the Port of Seattle Commissioner in Washington. She ran unopposed with 97.85 percent of the vote countywide. I had a chance to meet with Hasegawa ...

John Stanford International School (JSIS) in Seattle, Washington offers a unique dual-language immersion program where students receive instruction in both Japanese and English. This immersive ...

Jan Johnson is a well-known name, not just in Seattle but throughout the world. She has welcomed thousands of visitors to the historic Panama Hotel and Tea House in Seattle’s Nihonmachi (Japantown) ...

Seattle’s Bruce Miyahara has reignited a new passion in his retirement when most people ride off into the sunset. Bruce’s Seattle roots have taken him from being the first director of the ...

Joy Okazaki has served on the board of the Kubota Garden Foundation since its inception in 1989. She has served as the Foundation’s chair since 2012. She grew up in the Rainier Beach neighborhood and ...

新年明けましておめでとうございます！ As we welcome the New Year, I want to extend my warmest gratitude to our entire community of members, partners, volunteers, and friends of the Japan-America Society of the State of ...

When artist Shogo Ota learned his design had been chosen as Seattle’s (Washington) official FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) World Cup™ poster, he was so surprised that he ...

Yoshi Yokoyama ーBorn in Sendai in 1946 as the third son of a doctor, Yokoyama grew up in Fuchu City, Tokyo, from the time he was in middle school. After graduating from Nihon University’s College of ...

“My passion for life comes from the curiosity to find what kind of scenery is waiting for me when I turn the next corner.” These words perfectly capture the spirit of Sam Takahashi at 84 years old — a ...