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The largest fundraiser of the year for the jcccnc, the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Northern California. The event this saturday will feature Culinary Creations from the bay area, hawaii, and japan and will help the center continue to serve its 185,000 visitors every year. And we will end with a unique mission as a former child interned at the manzanar camp searches for his classmates. Well show you how he hopes to track them down. All that on our show today. Well, were big fans of books and the written word here; and thats not always an easy thing to promote in this digital age, but ...

Hakone gardens has been a popular place for many of us growing up in the bay area, an oasis of japanese history, culture, and atmosphere that has never become a commercially oriented tourist spot. It is a haven for many visitors, not just japaneseamericans, by the way, and it is celebrating a centennial celebration. Joining me to talk about Hakone Gardens and its history and celebration are some old friends, the executive director of the Hakone Foundation, shozo kagoshima. And a wellknown bay area historian, a member of the Hakone Foundation board of trustees, as well as a former chair, Connie...