Bill Watanabe offers a poetic reflection of death giving way to the life of future generations.
Bill Watanabe offers a story of courage and compassion in the wake of the Japanese incarceration during World War II.
Uncle Cecil graduated with an engineering degree from USC around 1936 and discovered to his dismay that no one would hire him. In desperation, he took on a welder’s job at a fishing-boat repair shop in San Pedro. Very quickly he became a master…
At the beginning of WW2, there was a curfew imposed in Southern California when people could not be on the streets and houses had to be darkened after 10 pm. This was because of the fear (real or imagined at the time) of a Japanese military invasion…
[Bill Watanabe is a legend in the Los Angeles Japanese American community. Born in the Manzanar concentration camp during World…