- Nancy Pelosi, who is next in line to the Presidency after Vice-President Dick Cheney, becomes the highest ranking U.S. figure to visit the atom bomb site at Hiroshima.
- A Fresno Japanese American carries on his father’s gardening tradition. Peter H. King from the Los Angeles Times tells this interesting and extensive story.
- “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,” a Japanese animated movie by Hayao Miyazaki, is wowing critics in Venice amongst very stiff competition.
- Over 8,000 Japanese Americans help scientists determine that a “long life” gene may actually exist.
- John William Fenton, the late composer of Japan’s first National Anthem, spent his last years in Santa Cruz and sparks a two-decade old mystery.
- More Japanese television shows could be finding their way to the U.S. in the near future.
- The popular surf brand Volcom is expanding to Japan.
