Under the arched wooden ceilings of Berkeley’s newest bookshop, you’ll find a rolling library ladder, velvet green couches, and yes, lots of books — but also a wine dispenser wedged between the ...

She also enjoys volunteering for community organizations, helping the Northern California Cherry Blossom Queen Program, the Japanese American ... citizenship. Oakland residents and fire officials ...

Kaiser Permanente has announced that Corwin N. Harper has been named president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, effective . As regional health plan president, Harper will lead the ...

Ami already has enough to worry about with her family and food. In sixth grade, a peer told her her bento boxes “smelled like farts.” But then in “Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play,” a double-whammy of a ...

California was once a hotbed of Japanese wine producers, until 20th-century legislation boxed them out. Over a hundred years later, a comeback is underway.

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride ...

No one in Dodger blue was apologizing Wednesday, when the Dodgers introduced pitcher Roki Sasaki at a news conference.

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In his first season in 2001, Ichiro earned the American League Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year awards, hitting .350 with 242 hits as the Mariners won 116 regular-season games. He won the A ...

A new restaurant in Oakland is seeking to bring the cuisine of Afghanistan to new heights. Jaji, co-owned by Sophia Akbar and Paul Iglesias of Parche, walks the line between familiar and iconoclastic, ...

Japan’s Hokkaido is set to host the seafood fair at Japanese supermarkets in the US city of Torrance, California, showcasing ...