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  • It’s How You Play the Game Mel Wakabayashi is our best-known Nikkei ice player. Not because he made the big times, although he did have a brief stint with the...

    It’s How You Play the Game Mel Wakabayashi is our best-known Nikkei ice player. Not because he made the big times, although he did have a brief stint with the...

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  • Less “Soba”, More “Sake” In a sober move to reduce the nation’s surplus rice, the Japanese cabinet recently decided to use more sake (rice brew) and rice at its official...

    Less “Soba”, More “Sake” In a sober move to reduce the nation’s surplus rice, the Japanese cabinet recently decided to use more sake (rice brew) and rice at its official...

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  • Mt. Manzo Nagano overlooks Lake Owekino near the head of Rivers Inlet some 250 miles north of Vancouver. The peak, named for the first Japanese immigrant to Canada, was designated...

    Mt. Manzo Nagano overlooks Lake Owekino near the head of Rivers Inlet some 250 miles north of Vancouver. The peak, named for the first Japanese immigrant to Canada, was designated...

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  • A TEST-TUBE Baby? In Ten Years? Many scientists in genetics are predicting in as short as ten years time, a woman will be able to select a baby of suitable...

    A TEST-TUBE Baby? In Ten Years? Many scientists in genetics are predicting in as short as ten years time, a woman will be able to select a baby of suitable...

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  • “We had a sense of mission in the sense that it was very important to do everything we could to sustain morale. We had to tell people: Look, in spite...

    “We had a sense of mission in the sense that it was very important to do everything we could to sustain morale. We had to tell people: Look, in spite...

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