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Bill Watanabe Honored with Legacy Award for Serving the Little Tokyo Community by Rachael Lee

March 11, 2015
Two Evergreens: Bigger – Not Better

By Bill Watanabe My wife and I have been members of Evergreen Baptist Church for nearly 40 years. When we started attending, it was located at the corner of Second & Evergreen in Boyle Heights (hence the name Evergreen Baptist). It was a small church that had seen...

Japanese Fathers by Bill Watanabe

My father was a little man - that is, short in stature; he stood barely over 5 feet tall but he was a strong Issei male figure in our Japanese American household.  By the time I was in middle school, I was bigger and quicker than he was but I was also taught to hold...

You Don’t Know Jack by Bill Watanabe

A number of years ago, when I was the Executive Director of the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), we had a Nisei volunteer named Jack.   Jack worked in the produce market in downtown Los Angeles, loading and unloading trucks every day from the time he was 15 years...