Before and after the panel discussion there was plenty of professional networking among the audience and the panelists.

Rafu: Any comments about the strike?Tomita: I am very proud to be a part of this union.adolescent students stumble into adulthood as clumsily as they do into each others arms.

To be able to see actors who we would see on film and television.I can only keep picketing and supporting our SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee to continue fighting for not only our union members.East West Players is presenting the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo.

As long as we try to be open and find an answer that will make us all healthy and happy together.The transitory period between childhood and adulthood is a particularly fraught time.

and passionate story set in 1890s Germany.

too) don’t know/have all the answers.He started playing for the San Francisco Associates in the first grade and went to Japan as a player for the Shinzen Nikkei Youth Goodwill Program.

But the question is how and why does basketball provide identity and connections to/within the Japanese American community?Komai.a small group of concerned basketball leaders in Southern California formed the Nikkei Basketball Heritage Association with the intent of documenting and teaching the history of Japanese American community basketball and its connection to traditional Japanese cultural values.

It emphasizes the connections between organized basketball and traditional Japanese cultural values.Whereas the Issei and Nisei who pioneered the Nikkei leagues wanted to pass their traditional cultural values to their children and grandchildren.