Keeping Japantown Safe
SAN JOSE The Japantown Community Congress of San Jose posted this photo on April 18 with the following explanation:
“One of three patrols this morning in San Jose Japantown! Our ‘Safe From Hate’ S.J. Japantown Community Patrol is a win win WIN situation! This patrol is about helping and assisting in a safe manner and grew from the desire to protect San Jose Japantown. We are excited that volunteers are learning about S.J. Japantown, one of the last three Japantowns left in the United States.
“Thank you to the many donors for this program and many, many thanks to Rich Saito, who accepted this challenge!”
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) Japantown s community leaders in San Jose are heartbroken after a beloved monument in their neighborhood was vandalized. The person takes something out of the backpack and sprays one side, sprays the other side, Pam Yoshida, describing the footage captured by her store s security camera. They know it s wrong because they hide when cars drive by.
By Monday morning, the community discovered the damage was done. Yoshida s store security camera captured the crime. You just can t believe that somebody would do something like that, to something that represents the struggles and sacrifices of the first generation of any immigrant community, she said.
Those We Lost in 2020
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2020 has been a year of extraordinary loss and suffering. As The Rafu
presents its annual listing of passings in the community, we offer our condolences to all those who have lost loved ones in this most difficult of years.
Following, in alphabetical order, are some of the notable individuals who passed away during the past year.
Sumako Azuma II
Sumako Azuma II (Janice Aiso Edesa), 61, on July 24. The North American representative to Azuma Ryū in Japan, she taught Japanese classical dance for 45 years, training 14 students to earn the natori degree and one to earn the shihan degree.