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Leland Yee filed to run for mayor of San Francisco in 2010. SAN FRANCISCO – Former State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), 67, was...

Paul Ogata SAN FRANCISCO — Laugh for Lives returns on Friday, March 11, from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon...

SAN FRANCISCO — A special film screening showing how the people of Tohoku are building a bright future for themselves five years after...

SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday, March 11, at 6 p.m., the San Francisco Japantown community will host a commemorative gathering to reflect and...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Feb. 25 announced the nomination of Judge Lucy H. Koh to serve on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for...

A scene from Mamoru Hosoda’s “The Boy and the Beast.” (Courtesy of Funimation Entertainment) PR Newswire Funimation Entertainment...

Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka in a scene from Lina Hoshino’s documentary “In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church.”...

Yong Soo Lee (center), a surviving “comfort woman,” was welcomed by supporters at San Francisco City Hall last year. Pictured with her...

Members of Nihonmachi Outreach Committee and Silicon Valley JACL carried banners during a candlelight procession from on the SJSU campus....

It’s 1982, and Taeko (Daisy Ridley) is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in...

SAN FRANCISCO – The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) announces that CAAMFest will take place March 10-20 in the San Francisco Bay...

SAN FRANCISCO — Tadaima, a Japanese American gathering of LGBTQ and allies, presents a panel discussion exploring the issues facing the...

Registration and refreshments from 9:30 to 10 a.m.; program and Q&A from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Speakers: Frank Kami and Yaeko Kami Yedlosky,...

Lakin Valdez (Benjamin Montaño), Christina Chu (Hana Yamaguchi), Melanie Arii Mah (Thelma “Teruko” Yamaguchi), Rafael Toribio (Kurogo),...

The JCCCNC was incorporated in 1973 as a nonprofit organization to preserve and promote the Japanese and Japanese American cultural...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ainu are an indigenous group of peoples from the Hokkaido region of Japan and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of...

SACRAMENTO — A celebration of a life of love and service will be held for Jerry Enomoto (1926-2016) on Saturday, March 5, at 1:30 p.m. at...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nihonmachi Little Friends, a community-based Japanese bilingual and multicultural nonprofit childcare organization, is...

Produced by the Los Angeles-based Grateful Crane Ensemble and presented by the JCCCNC, “Nihonmachi: The Place to Be” is written by San...

SAN JOSE — Shinzui “Shin” Sanada of Gilroy, a leader in San Jose’s Japanese American community, died in the early morning hours of Feb. 3...