By Keiko FukudaIn 1992, I came to Los Angeles initially to spend a long holiday after quitting a publishing company in Tokyo. However, 6 months later, I ended up staying for a while because I had an opportunity to work for a Japanese community magazine, and also acquired a working visa. The office w...

By Keiko FukudaJidaiya Ramen Dining in Gardena will have its fifth anniversary of the grand opening in April of this year. This is a very popular place which has been featured in various media in the past. “We were inexpert about ramen when we first opened,” says Taigo Sato, the co-owner/general man...

By Keiko FukudaThe Pacific Square is a shopping mall in Gardena which is a city where many Japanese and Japanese Americans reside. After the recent change of the Japanese grocery store there, which has been reborn as “Tokyo Central & Main”, a small pork buns shop that used to be located at a corner ...