Feb 12, 2017 Feb 12, 2017 Updated Jan 11, 2022 0 YAKIMA, Wash. -- Growing up in Wapato’s Japanese American community, Eddie Iseri spent much of his time in school and helping out at his mother’s ...

The Yakima Training Center’s original mission was to train American artillerists for combat in World War II, where they would face German and Japanese forces. But for nearly 30 years, the center, a ...

YAKIMA – Blaine Tamaki has visited Japan once in his 67 years. He traveled to the country of his ancestors when he was a student at Davis High School in Yakima. His trip was part of the Yakima School ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - The annual Japanese-led training exercise in its 17th year at Central Washington State's Yakima Training Center, this year dubbed Operation Rising Thunder, officially came to a close ...

YAKIMA — A 360-degree view from Col. Paul Mele’s hilltop vantage point in central Washington’s high desert gave him a lot to smile about this week as a new Army brigade commander. Snow-capped Mount ...

YAKIMA — Yoshiko Hide Kishi gazed at the small buckskin moccasins in her cupped hands as she recalled her early childhood in rural Toppenish. Her father and mother, Mantaro and Kiyo Hide, were farmers ...

A 360-degree view from Col. Paul Mele’s hilltop vantage point in central Washington’s high desert gave him a lot to smile about this week as a new Army brigade commander. Snow-capped Mount Rainier and ...

Every year the Federspiel family goes out of their way to host a barbecue and give a tour of the Yakima Valley to the Japanese service members participating in Rising Thunder, an annual bilateral ...

For as long as he can remember, Matt Gilmore’s family business has sold tickets to the popular sukiyaki dinner at the Yakima Buddhist Church in Wapato. Gilmore grew up working at Dunbar Jewelers in ...

(TNS) - Few countries know how to deal with widespread disaster better than Japan, and on Thursday, Japanese firefighter Junichi Matsuo told his Yakima Valley counterparts what it was like to respond ...

About 500 soldiers from the Japan Ground Self Defense Force are training this week with about 800 Lewis-McChord soldiers at the Yakima Training Center in Operation Rising Thunder. The News Tribune ...