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2025 Wells Fargo, donors to Trump’s Project 2025, announced their new national slogan “Together we’ll go far!” (for use: on IG)

1992 Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, APALA logo. Original proposal

Art Takei, a Nisei progressive and labor activist asked me to come up with a logo for APALA. He and other Asians had demanded such a group for years to no avail. The proposal was rejected because the “wave- fist looked too militant and independent”. The AFL-CIO preferred something closer to the design they already had with white and darker hands shaking in unity

2001- “Hachimaki” Head band for Asian Pacifica Islanders for Peace & Justice

1999- Sho-you Graphics logo

2004 Xmas card. Happy Japanese American Holidays

1992 Redress Hearing Testimony tapes promotional brochure

Featuring Charlie Hamasaki, a Terminal Islander fighter.

1990s Promotional piece for Redress Hearings tapes distributed by Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress

1992- Program cover for Night of Remembrance celebration.

2009 Barbs to doves cards for Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress

1993 Foldover mailer of “SHO” LA’s Arts and Entertainment Calendar. A project of Great Leap Inc. Courtesy of Nobuko Miyamoto

1993 SHO, Calendar foldout: May through June.

1993 Tabloid cover of SHO. A Great Leap Inc. project.

1993 SHO, Calendar foldout: July through December.

1986- Fish Cannery

Dozens of older Japanese American women used to work in the shrimp cleaning line at American Fish Co. in Little Tokyo. They were replaced with younger Latinos during the 1980s.

2019 Unity is stronger than steel

Mom hustles occupation soldier to buy a bike for her son

First he bombs them then bans them from coming to the US.

1990 Rafu Shimpo newspaper special Xmas edition.

1990 Rafu Shimpo newspaper special Xmas edition.

1992- 50th Anniversary of JA internment button

1976 Drawing for Gardener’s Federation office. Across from my apartment.

1991 Illustration for EOP Program at CSU Long Beach.

1993 Logo for CSULB Bridge Program

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