Genome-wide association studies can identify genetic allele variants of low penetrance that are strongly associated with cancer. This has been reported for prostate cancer (CaP) in a cohort of men with European ancestry. In the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Dr.
I often drive by Kimochi, a home for Japanese and Japanese-American elderlies, in San Francisco and think that I would like to live there one day if I'm old and alone. I bet they serve miso soup and rice for...
More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were shipped to internment camps at the outset of World War II. Some lost their livelihoods and homes. Young children lost their schoolmates and friends.
Yovichi (Yoichi?) Perez is "Japinoy," meaning of Filipino-Japaneseancestry. He saw a letter from a Japinoy like himself, also looking for his father, so he thought he would try his luck with us. Y was abandoned by his Japanese father 16 years ago. He tried to find him through a foundation in the Philippines, but his mother does not have his father's koseki tohon, or...
Face to Face from [I]ndependentLens This is just a beautiful presentation. Powerful portraits and strong interviews. Thanks for the inspiration. December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001: two days that changed the world forever. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, people of Japaneseancestry living in the United States were ...