Rafu ShimpoSep 29, 20156 minESSAY: Postscript to ‘Death Is a Sure Thing #4: Long-Term Care, Hospice and Caregivers’From right: Panelists Iku Kiriyama, Mike Umamoto, Gretchen Schaeffer and Alice Nehira at a forum on long-term care, hospice and...
Rafu ShimpoSep 29, 20155 minJ-TOWN BEAT: Little Tokyo vs. J-TownIt was a first for me. Talking with James Ota, owner of Oiwake, for the story I wrote on the restaurant’s closing, I found myself choking...
Rafu ShimpoSep 27, 20151 minGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Go ForwardFirst Prize, Essay, High School One suitcase, each family, all else left behind Dignity, freedom, liberty: were those left too? Trapped,...
Rafu ShimpoSep 27, 20153 minGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: A Silent Call to ActionFirst Prize, Essay, College/University Daniel Inouye’s inherent, assumed selflessness struck me, a millennial living in culture of...