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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the island of Alameda, just a block off the estuary between the island and Oakland, there’s a plaque on a rock that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s across Clement Avenue from Thompson Field, where the Alameda High School Hornets play football. The rock could be mistaken for a landscaping feature, but it marks an important spot in the history of Alameda and its Japanese American community — history that goes back more than a hundred years.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]Bay Curious listener Sam Hopkins took note of the plaque while out on a run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I paused real quick and read it and noticed it was commemorating this baseball field for a Japanese American team that I had never heard of before,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was surprised because he grew up in Alameda, played sports and had known that “Alameda is a really big baseball town” for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’d never heard of this Japanese American baseball field, didn’t know it existed and it just had me wondering: who were the teams that played there and what happened to those teams?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a city so small, Alameda has indeed produced a formidable roster of great baseball players. \u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Willie-Stargell/\">The Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Pirates slugger of the 1970s, Willie Stargell,\u003c/a> has an Alameda street named after him. Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Brian Woo played at Alameda High School — as did \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/giants/shea/article/Reds-Speier-bonds-with-Giants-Crawford-3937721.php\">All-Star shortstop Chris Speier \u003c/a>(1972–74). And pros Jimmy Rollins and Dontrelle Willis \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/today-s-players-know-of-encinal-s-tradition-2797469.php\">played at cross-island rival Encinal High\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK3-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK3-KQED-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Alameda Taiiku Kai ballplayer stands at home plate, circa 1920s. The location of the photo is unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Alameda Japanese American History Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the plaque on the rock across from Thompson Field isn’t about any Major Leaguers. It reads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the approximate location of home plate of the Alameda Japanese American ATK baseball field.” “ATK” stands for Alameda Taiiku Kai, which the plaque translates as “Alameda Athletic Club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATK team played here from 1916–38 — basically from the middle of World War I to right before the start of World War II. None of the ATK players are still alive, but there are a few people who remember how important they were to the Japanese American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A small, but mighty, community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK2-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ATK2-KQED-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Hikotaro ‘Harry’ Kono (wearing hat), Milton Kitano, Shizuto Kawamura, unknowns.\u003cbr>Enjoying a day at the park, Alamedans gather to watch a baseball game played by their hometown team, the Alameda Taiiku Kai (ATK), circa 1930. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Alameda Japanese American History Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alameda’s Japanese American community started out very small. Retired Alameda High School history teacher Jo Takata said that, in 1900, there were 110 Japanese people living there. Her grandparents came from Japan and settled in Alameda in 1902. By 1910, she said, the Japanese population had quadrupled. But they faced discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were gardeners, houseboys, housegirls,” Takata, now 81, said.\u003cstrong> “\u003c/strong>People could not get their hair cut, they could not eat in restaurants and so they started their own little community to serve themselves and each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They made their own shops and businesses and lived near them, making a six-block area around Park and Oak Streets, in Alameda’s Japantown. They started families, and their growing community was anchored by two places of worship — one Methodist, one Buddhist.[aside postID=news_11821133 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Pages-from-Kakuro-Shigenaga-File-1-NARA-San-Bruno.jpg']“Part of them went to the Buddhist temple, part of them went to the Methodist church,” Takata said. “And the thing they had in common was they didn’t like Japanese school, and they loved baseball. They loved sports, and that’s what brought them together, the two churches: it was baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo’s younger brother, Kent Takeda, said this passion for baseball wasn’t unique to Alameda’s Japanese American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became kind of a galvanizing, central pastime for them,” Kent said. “It feels like every community had the same kind of energy and interest around the sport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Taiiku-Kai team, Kent explained, was essentially a combination of players from the Buddhist temple and the Methodist church. The combination allowed Alameda to compete with teams coming from other communities, like Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045901\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1-1536x1011.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the Alameda Taiiku Kai baseball team (ATK) was the Buddhist Temple team, the YMBA (Young Men’s Buddhist Association), founded in 1913. The “A” on their uniform indicates this is either that team or a very early ATK team. This is one of the two earliest Alameda baseball team photos known to exist. The other was shot moments before or after this one. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Alameda Japanese American History Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really took off in the late 20s to late 30s,” said Alameda sports historian James McGee, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/15760041.James_Francis_McGee\">has researched and written about the ATK team \u003c/a>and some of its players in books and articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community built a grandstand and made a baseball field on the northwest corner of Clement and Walnut Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The all-dirt field was bordered by the Baxter Lumber Company, where telephone poles were treated and stored, and batters would hit toward the estuary,” McGee wrote in \u003cem>The Baseball Odyssey Volume II\u003c/em>. Big games would take place right after church on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046024\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1463px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046024 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1463\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2.jpg 1463w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2-1124x1536.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1463px) 100vw, 1463px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legendary shortstop and batter Sai Towata, of the\u003cbr>Alameda Taiiku Kai baseball (ATK) team, poses for a photo in Alameda, Calif., 1925. \u003ccite>((Courtesy of the Alameda Japanese American History Project))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the event of the week for all the Japanese in Alameda,” Jo Takata said. “The women would go in their Sunday finest, their purses, their hats and everything and picnic baskets. And they’d go every Sunday and sit in the stands and watch the teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGee said in the late 1920s, the ATK team was managed by Takurisu Morita and fielded several strong players, like Mas and Mike Nakano, Shizuto Kawamura, Tad Hayashi, Shug Madokoro and the legendary shortstop and batter Sai Towata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was captain of the [Alameda High School Hornets] team in 1924 in the spring,” McGee said. “Even though he was the best player on the team and the team captain, two other players, Dick Bartell and Johnny Vergez, were offered Major League Baseball contracts. And sadly, Sai wasn’t because of his heritage, because of his race, it appears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sai Towata would become a star for the ATK team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was not a big man, but his very efficient bat had a reputation. In one game, he went to bat five times and hit a triple and three singles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sai Towata was clutch,” said Kent Takeda, who has enjoyed reading about Towata in old sports box scores and game summaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he couldn’t play in the Majors, McGee said Sai Towata joined a goodwill tour to promote baseball in Korea and Japan that connected with another tour that featured Major Leaguers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/san-jose-asahis-1925-tour-of-japan-and-korea/\">Baseball exchanges between Japan and the U.S. became common in the 1920s and 30s\u003c/a>, with teams traveling to and from both countries. Kent Takeda said his father-in-law, Nobi Matsumoto, took a team to Japan out of Lodi and Stockton. James McGee added that in 1937, Harry Kono of Alameda put together an all-star team that went on a baseball barnstorming tour in Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED-1536x1105.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major League baseball players Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth pose with a Japanese American team in Fresno after an exhibition game in 1927. Kenichi Zenimura (third from left) was one of the best Japanese American ballplayers of his era. Babe Ruth also participated in goodwill tours in Japan, where he met players from the ATK team as well. \u003ccite>(Frank Kamiyama/Courtesy Brad Shirakawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>World War II upends Japanese American life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1939, any positive exchange between the U.S. and Japan stopped. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered World War II, Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps. Siblings Jo and Kent were both born in the camp in Topaz, Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the camps, some grown-ups were determined to keep playing baseball. Sai Towata’s brother, John Towata, took the lead in organizing baseball games at Topaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had enough moxie and enough bravery to continue on with their American traditions, even if they were behind barbed wire and in a prison,” McGee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the camps, baseball was the tie that bound them together,” Jo Takata said. “The families and the young men who were really living miserable lives.”[aside postID=news_11915583 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/JapaneseTeaGarden-1020x680.jpg']When World War II ended and the camps shut down, Japanese Americans were focused on getting back to and rebuilding the communities they’d been forced to leave. Kent and Jo remembered that their family lived in the basement of the Methodist church for five or six years while their father worked several jobs to save enough money to buy a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other members of Alameda’s Japanese American community, like John Towata, used what they’d learned in the camps to continue investing in civic life on the outside. “[John Towata] was a good businessman, politically astute in the community,” Kent said. “He gave Jo and I our first jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs were at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/10/01/after-six-decades-towata-flowers-in-alameda-closes-its-doors/\">Towata Flower Shop, which became an institution in Alameda, \u003c/a>thriving from the years after World War II until it closed in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the baseball front, teams like the ATK had disbanded, their players past their prime and more focused on rebuilding their lives when the war ended. But John Towata and other prominent Japanese American businessmen wanted to revive baseball in their communities after all they’d been through. Youth leagues started up, with businesses like Towata’s sponsoring teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother — the great player Sai Towata — became a coach. And one of his players in the mid-1950s was a very young Kent Takeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a good teacher and most of us learned to love the game from the way he coached,” Kent said. “He did a lot by example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siblings Kent Takeda (left) and Jo Takata in Jo’s home in Alameda. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You would never know that he could swing that bat,” Jo said. “He never even would say that he was a baseball star. We would have to bring it out of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo said \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> had to be “brought out” of her elders — the good memories and the bad. She spent time with their seniors group and remembers Sai Towata modestly celebrating his 89th or 90th birthday in 1992, the day after the plaque marking the ATK baseball field was dedicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important for me, meaningful, that that spot meant so much to these men,” she said. “It was a time for them to shine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that came after ATK’s heyday — the war, the camps, working so hard to rebuild and move on — that baseball team will always represent a special moment in this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Japanese baseball players are hot. I don’t mean that the way it sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really, Major League Baseball’s current champion, the Dodgers, have three pitchers from Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most famous right now, Shohei Ohtani, was the League’s Most Valuable Player last season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of an Ohtani strikeout\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the retired outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who played in Seattle, New York and Miami, was voted almost unanimously into the Baseball Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of broadcaster excitement over Suzuki hit\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are players who came from Japan to play baseball in the U.S. But there were Japanese people playing baseball here more than a century ago. They had teams that played against each other and even hosted teams from Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of those teams came from the island of Alameda.\u003cbr>\nIn the place that used to be the team’s field, there’s now a modest plaque marking what would have been home plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/strong> Nothing that really would stand out too much…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Still, it caught the eye of Bay Curious listener Sam Hopkins when he was out on a run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/strong> But I paused real quick and read it and noticed it was commemorating this baseball field for a Japanese American team that I had never heard of before. Alameda is a really big baseball town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Sam grew up playing baseball in Alameda and knows all about the great ballplayers who came from there. The Hall-of-Fame hitter Willie Stargell has a street named after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/strong> But I’d never heard of this Japanese American baseball field, didn’t know it existed and it just had me wondering who were the teams that played there and what happened to those teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> The team that called the field home was the Alameda Taiiku-Kai. Today on Bay Curious, we’ll learn the history of the team and its star players, and get into what they meant to Alameda’s Japanese American community. I’m Katrina Schwartz; stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme ends\u003cbr>\nSponsor break\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> The island of Alameda has a long tradition of producing great baseball players. And in the early 1900s, some of them were Japanese American. But the early 20th century was a difficult time for this community. KQED’s Brian Watt went to see what role the game of baseball played in that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> Sam’s right about that plaque. I came out here to see it, and it is pretty easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. It sits on a rock across the street from Thompson field, about a block from the estuary between Alameda and Oakland. Here’s what is says:\u003cbr>\nBrian reading: ATK baseball field. Alameda Taiku Kai. During the years 1916 to 1938, this was the approximate location of home plate of the Alameda Japanese American ATK baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> Alameda Taiiku Kai basically means Alameda Athletic Club. But what I’m really stuck on here is the years: 1916 to 1938. That’s basically the middle of World War I until right before World War II started.\u003cbr>\nThere are no players from that ATK team alive today, but there are people who knew some players — Japanese Americans who grew up in Alameda and still live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> Brian, Kent Takeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> How’s it going? Good to meet you. Good to meet you too. Thanks so much. Oh, this is so great. I’ll close it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Oh my gosh, I listen to you. I’m Jo, and this is my house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> Hey, Jo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Let me look at you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> Jo Takata invited me to her home just a couple miles from the plaque, to meet her and her brother, Kent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Are you hungry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> You know what? I’m okay. I might get hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata: \u003c/strong>I’ll get you something later.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nJo Takata: \u003c/strong>I’m a longtime resident of Alameda, 81 years, although I was born in an internment camp, as Kent was, but we came back here. I was a history teacher at Alameda High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>I’m Kent Takeda. I’m 80. There were six kids, three were born in Topaz, Utah, the incarceration camp that the people in the Bay Area went to. I was born in 1945.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> They’d also invited a local historian they’ve become friends with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee:\u003c/strong> I’m James McGee, former resident of Alameda, and I live down in Fremont now. I’m a full-time teacher, 37th year, and I’ve always loved history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> All three of these folks are connected through their fascination with the history of the island’s Japanese American baseball scene. James has researched and written about the Alameda Taiiku Kai baseball team.\u003cbr>\nJo Takata has been determined to document the struggles of her elders before World War II and the internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says in 1900, there were 110 Japanese people living in Alameda.\u003cbr>\nBy 1910, that number had quadrupled. But life was tough. They faced discrimination, worked as gardeners and houseboys and girls and cleaners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They made their own shops and businesses and lived near them, making a six-block area around Park and Oak Streets, Alameda’s Japantown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started families, had children and that community was anchored by two churches — one Methodist, one Buddhist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata: \u003c/strong>Part of them went to the Buddhist temple, part of them went to the Methodist church. And the thing they had in common was they didn’t like Japanese school, and they loved baseball, they loved sports, and that’s what brought them together, the two churches. It was baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> James McGee says this burgeoning of baseball was happening in Japanese American communities throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee: \u003c/strong>The first generation immigrants from Japan, some of them already knew the game. It was in its formative years in Japan at that time, very rudimentary, and they brought some of that with them to America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>And it became kind of a galvanizing, central pastime for them. So it wasn’t just Alameda, but it feels like every community had the same kind of energy and interest around the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> Kent Takeda says the Alameda Taiiku Kai was essentially a combination of teams from the Buddhist Temple and the Methodist Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> They decided they would be better off combining and forming ATK, which allowed them to compete well with the other cities.\u003cbr>\nThey built a grandstand and made a field facing the Oakland Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> Jo says, this became the place to go on Sunday after church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> It was the event of the week for all the Japanese in Alameda. The women would go in their Sunday finest, their purses, their hats and everything and picnic baskets and they’d go every Sunday and sit in the stands and watch the teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee:\u003c/strong> It really took off in the late 20s to late 30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>Historian James McGee says in the late 1920s, the ATK team fielded several strong players, including legendary shortstop and batter Sai Towata, who had been a real leader on the Alameda High School baseball team.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nJames McGee:\u003c/strong> Sai was an incredible baseball player. He was captain of the team in 1924 in the spring, Alameda High School Hornets, and he was very successful, very well-liked. And even though he was the best player on the team and the team captain, two other players, Dick Bartel and Johnny Vergis, were offered Major League Baseball contracts, and sadly, Sai wasn’t, because of his heritage, because of his race, it appears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> But Sai Towata would become a star for the ATK team. He was not a big man, but his very efficient bat had a reputation. In one game, he went to bat 5 times, hit a triple and three singles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> Sai Towata was clutch!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>Kent Takeda has read about him in old sports box scores and game summaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>Sai Towata was clutch! Clutch. Game on the line, make the big hit, make a good play. Clutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> And, though he couldn’t play in the majors, he joined a Goodwill tour to promote baseball in Korea and Japan that connected with another tour that featured Major Leaguers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.\u003cbr>\nBaseball exchanges between Japan and America became a thing in the 1920s and 30s, with teams traveling to and from both countries. Again, Kent Takeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>So, one year they came here, the next year… My father-in-law, Nobi Matsumoto, terrific ball player, but also strong leader and manager, he also took a team to Japan. I think in mid-20s out of Lodi and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>In 1939, any positive exchange between the U.S. and Japan stopped.\u003cbr>\nArchival newsreel: The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBrian Watt:\u003c/strong> World War II started, and Japanese Americans would be sent to prison camps, like the one siblings Jo and Kent were born in.\u003cbr>\nDocumentary footage: And now we’re here at the Topaz, Utah relocation center in the desert of Utah. And rows and rows of barracks.\u003cbr>\nBut in the camps, some grown-ups were determined to keep playing baseball. James McGee says, the brother of Sai Towata, John, took the lead in organizing baseball games in Topaz, his camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee:\u003c/strong> In my estimation, it proved to a lot of people, for once and for all, hopefully, that they were American just as much as anybody else, because they had enough moxie and enough bravery to continue on with their American traditions, even if they were behind barbed wire and in a prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> When World War II ended and the internment camps shut down, the Japanese Americans were focused on rebuilding the communities they’d been forced to leave.\u003cbr>\nKent says John Towata’s organizational skills served him well.\u003cbr>\nKent Takeda: He was a good businessman, politically astute in the community of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene: \u003c/strong>This is John Towata?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> He gave Jo and I our first jobs. We learned about working hard, or at least making it look like you were always busy, because you had to always be busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> And where were those jobs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> At the flower shop. Towata Flower Shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Watt: The Towata Flower Shop, by the way, became an institution in Alameda, thriving from the years after World War II until it closed in 2009.\u003cbr>\nJohn Tawata and other prominent Japanese American businessmen on the island weren’t about to let baseball die after all they’d been through.\u003cbr>\nThe ATK team had disbanded, its players past their prime by the time the war ended, so youth leagues became the thing, with businesses like Towata’s sponsoring teams. And Sai Towata became a coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> He was all baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Watt: He coached Kent Takeda as a boy in the mid-1950s.\u003cbr>\nKent Takeda: He was all baseball. He was one of the kindest, soft-spoken, gentle people. You know, you have a sense of coaches being competitive, fiery, win for the Gipper, whatever you want to call it, but no, he was just very low-key. He was a good teacher and most of us learned to love the game from the way he coached and he did a lot by example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> You would never know that he could swing that bat. He never even would say that he was a baseball star. We would have to bring it out of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>Jo Takata says a lot had to be “brought out” of her elders. The good memories and the bad. She spent time with their seniors group and remembers Sai Towata modestly celebrating his 89th or 90th birthday in 1992, the day after the plaque marking the ATK baseball field was dedicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Where the plaque is, is where the home base was. That spot meant so much to these men. It was a time for them to shine. Not just shine watching the baseball, but bringing their picnics, they had contests, they had races. It was the event of the week for all the Japanese in Alameda. And the guys loved it because it was the camaraderie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> And despite all that came after ATK’s heyday — the war, the camps, working so hard to rebuild and move on — Jo says that baseball team will always represent a special moment in this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That was KQED morning news anchor Brian Watt. There are some pretty amazing old photographs of the ATK team and those goodwill tours in Japan and Korea when Japanese American players met Babe Ruth. Head over to kqed.org/baycurious to check those out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Sam Hopkins for asking this week’s question. Remember, if you’ve got something you’ve been wondering about, you can always submit it on our website, kqed.org/bay curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz.\u003cbr>\nWith extra support from Alana Walker, Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan and everyone at team KQED.\u003cbr>\nSome members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Curious team will be off next week for the Fourth of July, but we’ll see you back here on July 10th with a brand new episode. I hope you all have a great holiday. Thanks for listening!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Part of them went to the Buddhist temple, part of them went to the Methodist church,” Takata said. “And the thing they had in common was they didn’t like Japanese school, and they loved baseball. They loved sports, and that’s what brought them together, the two churches: it was baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo’s younger brother, Kent Takeda, said this passion for baseball wasn’t unique to Alameda’s Japanese American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became kind of a galvanizing, central pastime for them,” Kent said. “It feels like every community had the same kind of energy and interest around the sport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Taiiku-Kai team, Kent explained, was essentially a combination of players from the Buddhist temple and the Methodist church. The combination allowed Alameda to compete with teams coming from other communities, like Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045901\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1913_ATK-BASEBALL-TEAM-WTH-BAT-AND-GLOVES-WITH-NAMES-V3-KQED-KQED-1-1536x1011.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the Alameda Taiiku Kai baseball team (ATK) was the Buddhist Temple team, the YMBA (Young Men’s Buddhist Association), founded in 1913. The “A” on their uniform indicates this is either that team or a very early ATK team. This is one of the two earliest Alameda baseball team photos known to exist. The other was shot moments before or after this one. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Alameda Japanese American History Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really took off in the late 20s to late 30s,” said Alameda sports historian James McGee, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/15760041.James_Francis_McGee\">has researched and written about the ATK team \u003c/a>and some of its players in books and articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community built a grandstand and made a baseball field on the northwest corner of Clement and Walnut Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The all-dirt field was bordered by the Baxter Lumber Company, where telephone poles were treated and stored, and batters would hit toward the estuary,” McGee wrote in \u003cem>The Baseball Odyssey Volume II\u003c/em>. Big games would take place right after church on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046024\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1463px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046024 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1463\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2.jpg 1463w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/1925-ATK-GROUP-003A-KQED-2-1124x1536.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1463px) 100vw, 1463px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legendary shortstop and batter Sai Towata, of the\u003cbr>Alameda Taiiku Kai baseball (ATK) team, poses for a photo in Alameda, Calif., 1925. \u003ccite>((Courtesy of the Alameda Japanese American History Project))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the event of the week for all the Japanese in Alameda,” Jo Takata said. “The women would go in their Sunday finest, their purses, their hats and everything and picnic baskets. And they’d go every Sunday and sit in the stands and watch the teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGee said in the late 1920s, the ATK team was managed by Takurisu Morita and fielded several strong players, like Mas and Mike Nakano, Shizuto Kawamura, Tad Hayashi, Shug Madokoro and the legendary shortstop and batter Sai Towata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was captain of the [Alameda High School Hornets] team in 1924 in the spring,” McGee said. “Even though he was the best player on the team and the team captain, two other players, Dick Bartell and Johnny Vergez, were offered Major League Baseball contracts. And sadly, Sai wasn’t because of his heritage, because of his race, it appears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sai Towata would become a star for the ATK team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was not a big man, but his very efficient bat had a reputation. In one game, he went to bat five times and hit a triple and three singles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sai Towata was clutch,” said Kent Takeda, who has enjoyed reading about Towata in old sports box scores and game summaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he couldn’t play in the Majors, McGee said Sai Towata joined a goodwill tour to promote baseball in Korea and Japan that connected with another tour that featured Major Leaguers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sabr.org/journal/article/san-jose-asahis-1925-tour-of-japan-and-korea/\">Baseball exchanges between Japan and the U.S. became common in the 1920s and 30s\u003c/a>, with teams traveling to and from both countries. Kent Takeda said his father-in-law, Nobi Matsumoto, took a team to Japan out of Lodi and Stockton. James McGee added that in 1937, Harry Kono of Alameda put together an all-star team that went on a baseball barnstorming tour in Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Babe-Ruth-with-Fresno-Japanese-team-KQED-1536x1105.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major League baseball players Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth pose with a Japanese American team in Fresno after an exhibition game in 1927. Kenichi Zenimura (third from left) was one of the best Japanese American ballplayers of his era. Babe Ruth also participated in goodwill tours in Japan, where he met players from the ATK team as well. \u003ccite>(Frank Kamiyama/Courtesy Brad Shirakawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>World War II upends Japanese American life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1939, any positive exchange between the U.S. and Japan stopped. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered World War II, Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps. Siblings Jo and Kent were both born in the camp in Topaz, Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the camps, some grown-ups were determined to keep playing baseball. Sai Towata’s brother, John Towata, took the lead in organizing baseball games at Topaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had enough moxie and enough bravery to continue on with their American traditions, even if they were behind barbed wire and in a prison,” McGee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the camps, baseball was the tie that bound them together,” Jo Takata said. “The families and the young men who were really living miserable lives.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When World War II ended and the camps shut down, Japanese Americans were focused on getting back to and rebuilding the communities they’d been forced to leave. Kent and Jo remembered that their family lived in the basement of the Methodist church for five or six years while their father worked several jobs to save enough money to buy a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other members of Alameda’s Japanese American community, like John Towata, used what they’d learned in the camps to continue investing in civic life on the outside. “[John Towata] was a good businessman, politically astute in the community,” Kent said. “He gave Jo and I our first jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs were at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/10/01/after-six-decades-towata-flowers-in-alameda-closes-its-doors/\">Towata Flower Shop, which became an institution in Alameda, \u003c/a>thriving from the years after World War II until it closed in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the baseball front, teams like the ATK had disbanded, their players past their prime and more focused on rebuilding their lives when the war ended. But John Towata and other prominent Japanese American businessmen wanted to revive baseball in their communities after all they’d been through. Youth leagues started up, with businesses like Towata’s sponsoring teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother — the great player Sai Towata — became a coach. And one of his players in the mid-1950s was a very young Kent Takeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a good teacher and most of us learned to love the game from the way he coached,” Kent said. “He did a lot by example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KENTJOSMILES-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siblings Kent Takeda (left) and Jo Takata in Jo’s home in Alameda. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You would never know that he could swing that bat,” Jo said. “He never even would say that he was a baseball star. We would have to bring it out of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo said \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> had to be “brought out” of her elders — the good memories and the bad. She spent time with their seniors group and remembers Sai Towata modestly celebrating his 89th or 90th birthday in 1992, the day after the plaque marking the ATK baseball field was dedicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important for me, meaningful, that that spot meant so much to these men,” she said. “It was a time for them to shine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that came after ATK’s heyday — the war, the camps, working so hard to rebuild and move on — that baseball team will always represent a special moment in this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Japanese baseball players are hot. I don’t mean that the way it sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really, Major League Baseball’s current champion, the Dodgers, have three pitchers from Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most famous right now, Shohei Ohtani, was the League’s Most Valuable Player last season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of an Ohtani strikeout\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the retired outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who played in Seattle, New York and Miami, was voted almost unanimously into the Baseball Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of broadcaster excitement over Suzuki hit\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are players who came from Japan to play baseball in the U.S. But there were Japanese people playing baseball here more than a century ago. They had teams that played against each other and even hosted teams from Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of those teams came from the island of Alameda.\u003cbr>\nIn the place that used to be the team’s field, there’s now a modest plaque marking what would have been home plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/strong> Nothing that really would stand out too much…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Still, it caught the eye of Bay Curious listener Sam Hopkins when he was out on a run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/strong> But I paused real quick and read it and noticed it was commemorating this baseball field for a Japanese American team that I had never heard of before. Alameda is a really big baseball town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Sam grew up playing baseball in Alameda and knows all about the great ballplayers who came from there. The Hall-of-Fame hitter Willie Stargell has a street named after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/strong> But I’d never heard of this Japanese American baseball field, didn’t know it existed and it just had me wondering who were the teams that played there and what happened to those teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> The team that called the field home was the Alameda Taiiku-Kai. Today on Bay Curious, we’ll learn the history of the team and its star players, and get into what they meant to Alameda’s Japanese American community. I’m Katrina Schwartz; stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme ends\u003cbr>\nSponsor break\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> The island of Alameda has a long tradition of producing great baseball players. And in the early 1900s, some of them were Japanese American. But the early 20th century was a difficult time for this community. KQED’s Brian Watt went to see what role the game of baseball played in that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> Sam’s right about that plaque. I came out here to see it, and it is pretty easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. It sits on a rock across the street from Thompson field, about a block from the estuary between Alameda and Oakland. Here’s what is says:\u003cbr>\nBrian reading: ATK baseball field. Alameda Taiku Kai. During the years 1916 to 1938, this was the approximate location of home plate of the Alameda Japanese American ATK baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> Alameda Taiiku Kai basically means Alameda Athletic Club. But what I’m really stuck on here is the years: 1916 to 1938. That’s basically the middle of World War I until right before World War II started.\u003cbr>\nThere are no players from that ATK team alive today, but there are people who knew some players — Japanese Americans who grew up in Alameda and still live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> Brian, Kent Takeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> How’s it going? Good to meet you. Good to meet you too. Thanks so much. Oh, this is so great. I’ll close it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Oh my gosh, I listen to you. I’m Jo, and this is my house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> Hey, Jo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Let me look at you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> Jo Takata invited me to her home just a couple miles from the plaque, to meet her and her brother, Kent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> Are you hungry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> You know what? I’m okay. I might get hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata: \u003c/strong>I’ll get you something later.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nJo Takata: \u003c/strong>I’m a longtime resident of Alameda, 81 years, although I was born in an internment camp, as Kent was, but we came back here. I was a history teacher at Alameda High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>I’m Kent Takeda. I’m 80. There were six kids, three were born in Topaz, Utah, the incarceration camp that the people in the Bay Area went to. I was born in 1945.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> They’d also invited a local historian they’ve become friends with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee:\u003c/strong> I’m James McGee, former resident of Alameda, and I live down in Fremont now. I’m a full-time teacher, 37th year, and I’ve always loved history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> All three of these folks are connected through their fascination with the history of the island’s Japanese American baseball scene. James has researched and written about the Alameda Taiiku Kai baseball team.\u003cbr>\nJo Takata has been determined to document the struggles of her elders before World War II and the internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says in 1900, there were 110 Japanese people living in Alameda.\u003cbr>\nBy 1910, that number had quadrupled. But life was tough. They faced discrimination, worked as gardeners and houseboys and girls and cleaners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They made their own shops and businesses and lived near them, making a six-block area around Park and Oak Streets, Alameda’s Japantown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started families, had children and that community was anchored by two churches — one Methodist, one Buddhist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata: \u003c/strong>Part of them went to the Buddhist temple, part of them went to the Methodist church. And the thing they had in common was they didn’t like Japanese school, and they loved baseball, they loved sports, and that’s what brought them together, the two churches. It was baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> James McGee says this burgeoning of baseball was happening in Japanese American communities throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee: \u003c/strong>The first generation immigrants from Japan, some of them already knew the game. It was in its formative years in Japan at that time, very rudimentary, and they brought some of that with them to America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>And it became kind of a galvanizing, central pastime for them. So it wasn’t just Alameda, but it feels like every community had the same kind of energy and interest around the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> Kent Takeda says the Alameda Taiiku Kai was essentially a combination of teams from the Buddhist Temple and the Methodist Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> They decided they would be better off combining and forming ATK, which allowed them to compete well with the other cities.\u003cbr>\nThey built a grandstand and made a field facing the Oakland Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> Jo says, this became the place to go on Sunday after church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jo Takata:\u003c/strong> It was the event of the week for all the Japanese in Alameda. The women would go in their Sunday finest, their purses, their hats and everything and picnic baskets and they’d go every Sunday and sit in the stands and watch the teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee:\u003c/strong> It really took off in the late 20s to late 30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>Historian James McGee says in the late 1920s, the ATK team fielded several strong players, including legendary shortstop and batter Sai Towata, who had been a real leader on the Alameda High School baseball team.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nJames McGee:\u003c/strong> Sai was an incredible baseball player. He was captain of the team in 1924 in the spring, Alameda High School Hornets, and he was very successful, very well-liked. And even though he was the best player on the team and the team captain, two other players, Dick Bartel and Johnny Vergis, were offered Major League Baseball contracts, and sadly, Sai wasn’t, because of his heritage, because of his race, it appears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> But Sai Towata would become a star for the ATK team. He was not a big man, but his very efficient bat had a reputation. In one game, he went to bat 5 times, hit a triple and three singles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> Sai Towata was clutch!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>Kent Takeda has read about him in old sports box scores and game summaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>Sai Towata was clutch! Clutch. Game on the line, make the big hit, make a good play. Clutch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> And, though he couldn’t play in the majors, he joined a Goodwill tour to promote baseball in Korea and Japan that connected with another tour that featured Major Leaguers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.\u003cbr>\nBaseball exchanges between Japan and America became a thing in the 1920s and 30s, with teams traveling to and from both countries. Again, Kent Takeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda: \u003c/strong>So, one year they came here, the next year… My father-in-law, Nobi Matsumoto, terrific ball player, but also strong leader and manager, he also took a team to Japan. I think in mid-20s out of Lodi and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: \u003c/strong>In 1939, any positive exchange between the U.S. and Japan stopped.\u003cbr>\nArchival newsreel: The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBrian Watt:\u003c/strong> World War II started, and Japanese Americans would be sent to prison camps, like the one siblings Jo and Kent were born in.\u003cbr>\nDocumentary footage: And now we’re here at the Topaz, Utah relocation center in the desert of Utah. And rows and rows of barracks.\u003cbr>\nBut in the camps, some grown-ups were determined to keep playing baseball. James McGee says, the brother of Sai Towata, John, took the lead in organizing baseball games in Topaz, his camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James McGee:\u003c/strong> In my estimation, it proved to a lot of people, for once and for all, hopefully, that they were American just as much as anybody else, because they had enough moxie and enough bravery to continue on with their American traditions, even if they were behind barbed wire and in a prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt:\u003c/strong> When World War II ended and the internment camps shut down, the Japanese Americans were focused on rebuilding the communities they’d been forced to leave.\u003cbr>\nKent says John Towata’s organizational skills served him well.\u003cbr>\nKent Takeda: He was a good businessman, politically astute in the community of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene: \u003c/strong>This is John Towata?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> He gave Jo and I our first jobs. We learned about working hard, or at least making it look like you were always busy, because you had to always be busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt in scene:\u003c/strong> And where were those jobs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kent Takeda:\u003c/strong> At the flower shop. Towata Flower Shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Watt: The Towata Flower Shop, by the way, became an institution in Alameda, thriving from the years after World War II until it closed in 2009.\u003cbr>\nJohn Tawata and other prominent Japanese American businessmen on the island weren’t about to let baseball die after all they’d been through.\u003cbr>\nThe ATK team had disbanded, its players past their prime by the time the war ended, so youth leagues became the thing, with businesses like Towata’s sponsoring teams. 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The goal, Ingallinera said, is to accelerate the development of AI and robotics and to foster technology supremacy for the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the Manhattan project of our time,” Ingallinera said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/_FrontierValley/status/1934346177388106033\">promotional video\u003c/a> filmed at Alameda Point. “If we fail to rise to the occasion right now, then China will crush us, and that will be the end of America as the world’s greatest superpower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingallinera is proposing to build a city full of AI-focused startups and robotics manufacturers, housing for 10,000 residents, a commercial district, statues of American pioneers and a waterside park. The company drafted an executive order for Trump to sign that the company claims would allow development to proceed on the parcel, which is \u003ca href=\"https://alamedapointinfo.com/sites/default/files/resolution_14780_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently designated as a nature reserve (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda city officials, however, told KQED they were never contacted by the company and only learned of its plans through its weekend post on X. Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft called the plans a “head scratcher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They haven’t talked to the city at all,” she said, adding that a development of that size would be challenging to build on land that is subject to sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda Point on Sept. 11, 2023. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to build a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium for 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point, on 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station. The project is funded by Congress and will be constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Veterans Affairs currently owns about 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station and \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/san-francisco-health-care/programs/va-alameda-point-development/#:~:text=Facilities%20on%20the%20site%20will,many%20Veterans%20residing%20in%20the\">plans to build\u003c/a> a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium, an above-ground burial site which could hold the remains of 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point. The project was authorized and funded by Congress and is planned to be constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big deal that we need a new veterans administration clinic and the burial spaces,” Ashcraft said. “They’re very much needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium and medical clinic, however, will account for only a fifth of the federal agency’s land. The remaining 512 acres, which Frontier Valley wants to build on, are a former aircraft landing strip and the nesting grounds for several bird populations, including the endangered California Least Tern.[aside postID=news_12024017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250114_Mare-Island2_DMB_00817-1020x680.jpg']According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ingallinera-4172a021/\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, Ingallinera has founded a series of startups and was most recently an advisor for the Carboncopies Foundation, a research organization studying whether the human brain can be scanned and simulated digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor other members of Frontier Valley responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his promotional video shares little detail about his background, it paints a picture of sluggish bureaucracy slowing down the country’s progress in developing competitive AI technology, including humanoid robots. In it, he claims that because this new city would be built on federal land, it would \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have total independence from the surrounding Bay Area and the state of California, avoiding the failures of many previous governance structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged the White House to transfer the 512-acre parcel from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Defense. 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It had planned to develop a portion of the former airstrip into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/projects/northwest-territories-regional-shoreline-alameda-point\">158-acre open-space park\u003c/a> that would be operated by the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Sarah Henry, a spokesperson for the city of Alameda, told KQED that “no reasonable fact” supports a proposed declaration of a national security emergency at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is in full support of the VA facility and regional parks project, which will serve Bay Area veterans, residents and visitors for many decades to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">\u003cem>KQED’s Youth Takeover\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Throughout the month, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Iijima presented me with two of the best gifts of my life in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, a Ziploc bag of six \u003cem>hoshigaki,\u003c/em> which are candy-sweet, Japanese-style dried persimmons. Second, a rich history about how his Japanese American family has lived in — and served — the United States for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iijima is a third-generation Japanese American and son of Shori Iijima, a World War II veteran who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an infantry unit made up almost entirely of American-born sons of Japanese immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of Iijima’s uncles also served in the 442nd, and a fifth served in the top-secret \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/military-intelligence-service-translators-interpreters\">Military Intelligence Service\u003c/a>. Iijima honors their service by volunteering as a docent at the USS Hornet’s 442nd Nisei Exhibit in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iijima, 75, guided me through the exhibit’s diverse artifacts. For example, the back room of the museum boasts six garlands of origami cranes folded from paper American flags. In Japanese culture, origami cranes came to symbolize peace, resilience and healing after a young survivor of the World War II atomic bombing developed leukemia and folded 1,300 paper birds before her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting near the cranes for our interview, Iijima was decked out in an American battleship baseball cap and his Friends and Family of Nisei Veterans sweater vest. He spoke passionately about his family’s history with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion that preceded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038997\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-34-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he spoke and I listened, I was stunned to learn that 14,000 men became the most highly decorated military unit in U.S. history — according to the Army — in just four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soldiers, who averaged 5-foot-3 and 125 pounds, were swift fighters and emerged victorious from battles once thought impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japanese American families like Iijima’s inspired me to create a documentary film that explored the unique past of the 100th and 442nd soldiers. I learned that the 100th was originally a segregated unit of second-generation Japanese American men, or \u003cem>Nisei\u003c/em>, from Hawaii.[aside postID=news_12021919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_JapaneseAmericanActivism_GC-47-1020x680.jpg']After witnessing the success of the 100th, then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the formation of the 442nd, a larger unit of Nisei soldiers. As the Nisei fought, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">over 120,000 people with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated\u003c/a>, mainly on the West Coast in remote camps with harsh climes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iijima’s Oakland-born father, as well as other Japanese Americans, were accused of spying for the Japanese Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality was all these places were terrible. They were miles from the closest town. It was below freezing in the winter. It was near 100 every day in the summertime, and there was dust everywhere,” Iijima said, describing what his parents had shared with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese Americans felt blindsided and developed complex feelings about patriotism. Few Japanese American men initially volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, so the U.S. military issued a loyalty questionnaire to second-generation Nisei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered?” was question No. 27 on the survey. The subsequent question: “Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any and all attacks by foreign and domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or disobedience to the Japanese Emperor, or any other foreign government, power, or organization?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Iijima, 75, holds a photo of four out of the eight remaining soldiers of World War II’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, in the Nisei exhibit at the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Iijima, most Nisei were unaware of who the emperor of Japan even was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young men who answered “no” to questions No. 27 and 28 on the survey were dubbed the “\u003ca href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/No-no_boys/\">no-no boys\u003c/a>” and sent to the Tule Lake Segregation Center, while those who answered “yes” were drafted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 100th and 442nd fought with great intensity, demonstrating their loyalty and patriotism. Many, tragically, sacrificed their lives, earning the 100th the title of “The Purple Heart Battalion.”[aside postID=news_12037263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/030_KQED_JFKHighSchoolRichmond_05182023_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Many of [the Japanese American soldiers] came back with either mental injuries or physical injuries that prevented them from living a full life. Today, we call it PTSD. Many of them [had] missing legs, arms, eyesight, ears, whatever the case may be,” Iijima told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that’s what it took to prove their loyalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working on my documentary, I interviewed several descendants of 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team soldiers. The Nisei soldiers’ service and sacrifice should be an inspirational story for all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just days after finishing the first draft of my 10-minute film, President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034699/racial-justice-advocates-stay-course-dei-faces-mounting-attacks\">anti-DEI executive order\u003c/a> resulted in the United States Army removing the Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Heritage page from its website. The story of the 442nd seemed to have vanished from America’s official military history, including images and video clips that I had included in my film that were suddenly inaccessible online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, after advocacy work from Japanese American organizations and politicians from Hawaii, the page was restored a day later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038999 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Iijima, a docent with the Friends and Family of Nisei Veterans, walks onto the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deleting important history \u003cem>was\u003c/em> harmful — not just for Japanese Americans, but for all Americans. Not many know about the Nisei soldiers. As I worked on the documentary, I would tell people at my high school about my research, and just one person knew about the 100th or 442nd before I explained it to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was my U.S. history teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of how important diverse stories are for our nation, I am concerned about Trump’s attempt to criminalize and demonize DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump has asserted that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are discriminatory and problematic, I believe that my experience learning about the 442nd provides a counterexample.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this story, I realized that being an American is more than waving a flag. As a young, third-generation American of Taiwanese descent, I sometimes feel disconnected from my American nationality. Yet, the 100th and 442nd have inspired me to demonstrate my deep love for my country by dedicating myself to tangible, serious actions that uplift my fellow citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uniforms of soldiers with World War II’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, are displayed at the Nisei exhibit inside the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most patriotic action, I have learned, is fighting for the American ideals of liberty and justice for all. For Iijima’s relatives, this fight meant physically putting themselves on the battlefields of Italy, France and Germany. Today, pursuing this task can take many forms — from volunteering and voting to self-education and social activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men of the 100th and 442nd — and their families who stayed behind — remind me to love my country even when it doesn’t love me back, to serve when its leaders fail my loved ones and to trust that future generations may learn about today’s fight for social progress in a museum exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iijima told me that his relatives dedicated themselves to defending America in spite of being stripped of their freedoms back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re fighting for America, even if you don’t like what America has done to your people or to you personally,” he said. “You’re an American, and so you’re going to fight for America even if you don’t like [it]. It’s the only country that you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The Nisei soldiers’ service and sacrifice should be an inspirational story for all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just days after finishing the first draft of my 10-minute film, President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034699/racial-justice-advocates-stay-course-dei-faces-mounting-attacks\">anti-DEI executive order\u003c/a> resulted in the United States Army removing the Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Heritage page from its website. The story of the 442nd seemed to have vanished from America’s official military history, including images and video clips that I had included in my film that were suddenly inaccessible online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, after advocacy work from Japanese American organizations and politicians from Hawaii, the page was restored a day later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038999 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-1-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Iijima, a docent with the Friends and Family of Nisei Veterans, walks onto the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deleting important history \u003cem>was\u003c/em> harmful — not just for Japanese Americans, but for all Americans. Not many know about the Nisei soldiers. As I worked on the documentary, I would tell people at my high school about my research, and just one person knew about the 100th or 442nd before I explained it to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was my U.S. history teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of how important diverse stories are for our nation, I am concerned about Trump’s attempt to criminalize and demonize DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump has asserted that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are discriminatory and problematic, I believe that my experience learning about the 442nd provides a counterexample.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this story, I realized that being an American is more than waving a flag. As a young, third-generation American of Taiwanese descent, I sometimes feel disconnected from my American nationality. Yet, the 100th and 442nd have inspired me to demonstrate my deep love for my country by dedicating myself to tangible, serious actions that uplift my fellow citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250505_YTCOMMENTARY_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uniforms of soldiers with World War II’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, are displayed at the Nisei exhibit inside the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most patriotic action, I have learned, is fighting for the American ideals of liberty and justice for all. For Iijima’s relatives, this fight meant physically putting themselves on the battlefields of Italy, France and Germany. Today, pursuing this task can take many forms — from volunteering and voting to self-education and social activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men of the 100th and 442nd — and their families who stayed behind — remind me to love my country even when it doesn’t love me back, to serve when its leaders fail my loved ones and to trust that future generations may learn about today’s fight for social progress in a museum exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iijima told me that his relatives dedicated themselves to defending America in spite of being stripped of their freedoms back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re fighting for America, even if you don’t like what America has done to your people or to you personally,” he said. “You’re an American, and so you’re going to fight for America even if you don’t like [it]. It’s the only country that you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Since 2021, Alameda County has collected roughly $500 million in sales tax revenue to improve access to child care and pediatric health care for lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not a single dollar has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.first5alameda.org/our-work/strategies-initiatives/the-childrens-health-child-care-initiative-for-alameda-county/\">Voters approved\u003c/a> a half-cent sales tax increase in March 2020 to help address a growing shortage of child care, but a legal challenge by the Alameda County Taxpayers’ Association tied up the funds until last year when\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984169/state-court-upholds-alameda-county-tax-measure-yielding-hundreds-of-millions-for-child-care\"> the state Supreme Court upheld the measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated child care providers were hoping county officials would release the first batch of funds after approving spending $165.8 million in emergency funding so they could finally apply for thousands of dollars in relief grants. However, the money appears to be caught up in another legal fight by the taxpayers’ group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this doesn’t pass, I don’t even know that I will open by the end of the year,” said Lisa Zarodney, who has provided child care out of her home in Livermore for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney talks to Ryden, 1, Kane, 2, and Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said she has always operated her small business on thin margins and didn’t have much of a financial cushion when the pandemic hit and fewer kids came to her home. She received $5000 in federal pandemic recovery aid, she said, but rising costs for food, electricity and other expenses have only deepened her financial troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When temperatures rise in Livermore, and she turns on the air conditioning to keep the kids cool, for example, her electricity bill almost doubles to $600 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t do this business for the money because it’s not a profitable business,” she said. “You have to do it for the love of children, and that’s the whole reason why I do it, to give children and families the help that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney speaks to Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After paying off her bills last month, Zarodney said she had just $200 to cover her own food and other expenses. She’s been drawing from her late husband’s retirement savings to get by, but she said the high taxes and penalties on those withdrawals are unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the county Board of Supervisors tentatively approved spending\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_02_25_25/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/First%205%20Alameda%20County_383009.pdf\"> some of the Measure C funds\u003c/a> to prop up the county’s early childhood education and care system. Small family child care providers who serve low-income families, like Zarodney, can each qualify for $40,000 in relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A category of caregivers, known as license-exempt Friends, Family and Neighbors, can qualify for $4,000 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030549\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretchen Hernandez poses for a photo at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. Hernandez has taken time off of her warehouse job to care for her 2-year-old granddaughter with special needs, Ava. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That could help Gretchen Hernandez, who has taken time off her job at a warehouse to look after her 2-year-old granddaughter at her home in Oakland. Hernandez said she’s been living off her savings while she cares for the toddler, who requires one-on-one care because she was born with a rare form of Down syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have six months left of money, and that’s it, so I have to go back to work because I have no choice,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s unclear exactly when caregivers can apply for the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the taxpayer’s group told the supervisors at the Feb. 25 meeting that by rule, they couldn’t release the emergency funds without approving a 5-year spending plan for Measure C, which is still in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Gretchen Hernandez’s granddaughter, Ava, and communication cards posted on the refrigerator at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Voters were promised a 5-year plan and budget before expenditure of funds,” attorney Jason Bezis said. “It’s like placing the proverbial cart in front of the horse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said a proposal by First 5 Alameda County to spend 15% of the emergency funds to administer the money was “exorbitantly high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors tentatively approved the emergency fund as the first phase of the 5-year spending plan but will decide when to distribute the money pending a legal review by the county Counsel Donna Ziegler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028709 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250224_Mills-Children-School_DMB_00007-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler told the board she would offer her opinion at its next meeting on Tuesday, but the topic does not appear on the agenda. Voicemail messages to the counsel have not been returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity to transform the child care ecosystem in Alameda County,” said Mary Hekl, CEO of Hively, a referral agency with offices in Pleasanton, Livermore, Oakland, Fremont and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emergency funds would include $1.5 million in grants for agencies like Hekl’s to help income-eligible families enroll in state-subsidized child care programs and to train the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her agency has maxed out the state funding it received this budget year for child care vouchers, but about 1,000 income-eligible families are still on its waitlist for subsidized child care. With more funding from Measure C, she said her agency can refer more families to licensed providers like Zarodney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is what people voted for in the first place, so a lot more people can have access to child care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said the longer she has to wait for funding, the harder it will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, or you see it and it gets turned off, it’s very discouraging, it’s really hard to try and keep going,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated child care providers were hoping county officials would release the first batch of funds after approving spending $165.8 million in emergency funding so they could finally apply for thousands of dollars in relief grants. However, the money appears to be caught up in another legal fight by the taxpayers’ group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this doesn’t pass, I don’t even know that I will open by the end of the year,” said Lisa Zarodney, who has provided child care out of her home in Livermore for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney talks to Ryden, 1, Kane, 2, and Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zarodney said she has always operated her small business on thin margins and didn’t have much of a financial cushion when the pandemic hit and fewer kids came to her home. She received $5000 in federal pandemic recovery aid, she said, but rising costs for food, electricity and other expenses have only deepened her financial troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When temperatures rise in Livermore, and she turns on the air conditioning to keep the kids cool, for example, her electricity bill almost doubles to $600 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t do this business for the money because it’s not a profitable business,” she said. “You have to do it for the love of children, and that’s the whole reason why I do it, to give children and families the help that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030543\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Zarodney speaks to Hudson, 3, at her home in Livermore, where she runs a childcare operation, on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After paying off her bills last month, Zarodney said she had just $200 to cover her own food and other expenses. She’s been drawing from her late husband’s retirement savings to get by, but she said the high taxes and penalties on those withdrawals are unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the county Board of Supervisors tentatively approved spending\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_02_25_25/HEALTH%20CARE%20SERVICES/Set%20Matter%20Calendar/First%205%20Alameda%20County_383009.pdf\"> some of the Measure C funds\u003c/a> to prop up the county’s early childhood education and care system. Small family child care providers who serve low-income families, like Zarodney, can each qualify for $40,000 in relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A category of caregivers, known as license-exempt Friends, Family and Neighbors, can qualify for $4,000 grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030549\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250307_ALAMEDACHILDCARE_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gretchen Hernandez poses for a photo at her home in Oakland on March 7, 2025. Hernandez has taken time off of her warehouse job to care for her 2-year-old granddaughter with special needs, Ava. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That could help Gretchen Hernandez, who has taken time off her job at a warehouse to look after her 2-year-old granddaughter at her home in Oakland. 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I think a lot of the programs that are in place now and a lot of the things that we saw from some of the community-based organizations that they wanted from a D.A., Nancy was already engaging in,” said Jones Dickson, who county supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">selected Tuesday\u003c/a> as Alameda County’s next district attorney. “So I think we’ll continue that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson plans to leverage her experience as she takes charge following months of controversy under Pamela Price, the office’s former leader who was recalled in November’s election. 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That reversed a decision by her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, who cleared the officers of criminal liability after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases against Fisher and Leahy were dismissed after a judge ruled that the district attorney’s office failed to file arrest warrants that would have commenced felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations. The case against McKinley was allowed to move forward because he had been out of the country for months within that three-year period, effectively pausing the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, McKinley’s defense accused the district attorney’s office of withholding statements Omalu made criticizing the prosecution. They said Omalu told the office that he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to a defense motion. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Dr. Omalu did not change his ultimate opinion on the cause of death, multiple key inconsistencies by this now hostile yet necessary witness led the People to conclude they could not meet their burden of proving Officer McKinley committed involuntary manslaughter beyond a reasonable doubt,” the office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">died after police pinned him to the ground\u003c/a> in an Alameda park. The prosecution of those officers on involuntary manslaughter charges has been fraught with problems since the case against two of the three officers was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">thrown out in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman and a Latino man touch heads as they mourn with masks on.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/033_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mother of Mario Gonzalez, Edith Arenales, puts her head together with her son Geraldo Gonzalez before speaking at a news conference outside the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price — who was recalled from office last month — charged McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter for the death of Gonzalez in April. That reversed a decision by her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, who cleared the officers of criminal liability after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases against Fisher and Leahy were dismissed after a judge ruled that the district attorney’s office failed to file arrest warrants that would have commenced felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations. The case against McKinley was allowed to move forward because he had been out of the country for months within that three-year period, effectively pausing the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, McKinley’s defense accused the district attorney’s office of withholding statements Omalu made criticizing the prosecution. They said Omalu told the office that he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to a defense motion. Omalu also said the officers did not commit criminal misconduct and should not be prosecuted, the motion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Omalu filed a motion to quash a district attorney’s office subpoena that compelled him to testify in the criminal case. The office said that because his declaration submitted under penalty of perjury in that motion contained inconsistencies with his sworn deposition in the civil case, he would have “more than likely” been impeached if he had been forced to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another possible forensic pathology expert who could testify on cause of death for the prosecution relied on Dr. Omalu for review, leaving no way to avoid calling Dr. Omalu to the witness stand,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s death caused outrage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871576/deadly-alameda-police-encounter-carries-echoes-of-george-floyd-case\">drew comparisons\u003c/a> to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020. He was unarmed when officers responded to a 911 call of a man behaving strangely in an Alameda park. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">Body camera footage\u003c/a> released by the city shows the officers pin down Gonzalez, who is mumbling and appears not to be fully lucid after he resists being handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one officer pressed an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder, and after about five minutes, the officers rolled Gonzalez onto his side, saying he was becoming unresponsive. Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was later declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video footage spurred Gonzalez’s family to accuse the officers of murder, calling it a clear case of police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine,” stress related to altercation and restraint, obesity and alcoholism. Omalu’s autopsy, independently requested by Gonzalez’s family, showed that his death had been “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley declined to file charges, Price reopened the case shortly after she took office in 2023 as part of a new Police Accountability Unit, which reopened eight police shootings or in-custody death cases in early 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision from the district attorney’s office to drop charges against McKinley comes just weeks after Royl Roberts, who was Price’s second in command, took over as the interim head of the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the only Alameda police officer still facing charges in the 2021 death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> argued in an explosive motion this week that a forensic pathologist who is central to the case recently met with the district attorney’s office and made statements critical of the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Friday, Officer Eric McKinley’s defense lawyers argued a motion that accuses the Alameda County district attorney’s office of withholding information that could exonerate their client. Among that information is a meeting the district attorney’s office had with independent pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu — who conducted an autopsy on Gonzalez — in which he said he “believes this case to be a ‘political’ prosecution,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25448162-241204-def-reply-in-further-support-of-motion-to-compel-final/\">defense motion\u003c/a>. Omalu also said the officers did not commit criminal misconduct and should not be prosecuted, the motion says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge took arguments under submission, indicating he would rule later on whether the prosecution needs to provide McKinley’s defense attorneys with copies of Omalu’s statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother, felt at a loss after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can I say? I believe in God, and I’m still hoping they check the second autopsy, they find out a lot of stuff completely different from what they say, so it is what it is,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Omalu said he “wishes to have no involvement in this matter.” Omalu also issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25448254-omalu-press-release/\">written statement\u003c/a> explaining that he did not expect his findings to be used in a criminal prosecution and that he does not wish to testify in the case because the criminal prosecution “goes against his core personal and religious beliefs and values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley is arguing that the prosecution has unnecessarily stalled discovery in the case in other ways as well, indefinitely delaying an important preliminary hearing that had been set for earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office declined to comment on the defense allegations. Arguing in court Friday, an Alameda County prosecutor said Omalu “has feelings about the case but he stands by his report.” The prosecution also argued that Omalu never contradicted his findings on the cause of Gonzalez’s death, which he determined was asphyxiation from being physically restrained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11737466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11737466\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36314__DSC7507-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Superior Court House on March 2, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McKinley was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter by District Attorney Pamela Price in April, reversing her predecessor Nancy O’Malley’s findings of no criminal wrongdoing by officers. The same charges were also brought against two other officers involved in Gonzalez’s death, but they were dismissed in October after filing errors by the district attorney’s office allowed the statute of limitations to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will happen to the case now that Price has been recalled from office is unknown. Whoever is selected as the new district attorney by the Board of Supervisors will have the power to drop the case if they see fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is so sad for me to hear that it can be or cannot, but that is why we are here, not only me, but the family of Steven Taylor, another victim of police brutality,” Arenales said. “I’m scared for real though when I hear that they can drop the case because they’re not supposed to have to drop it because they have good evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when McKinley along with officers James Fisher and Cameron Leahy approached him in an Alameda park on April 19, 2021, responding to 911 calls about a man behaving erratically. Body camera footage shows the officers attempting to detain Gonzalez, eventually taking him to the ground and pinning him down on his stomach.[aside postID=news_12011106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg']Gonzalez is shown murmuring to himself as the officers hold him down. At least one officer was shown pressing an elbow and knee into Gonzalez’s back and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gonzalez became unresponsive after being held down for several minutes, the officers rolled him onto his side. He had stopped breathing, and the officers administered CPR in addition to two doses of Narcan. Gonzalez was eventually taken to the hospital and declared dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial autopsy report released by the Alameda County coroner declared Gonzalez’s death a homicide but cited methamphetamine toxicity, obesity, alcoholism and stress as the primary causes behind his cardiac arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second autopsy, which was conducted independently by Omalu at the request of Gonzalez’s family, showed differently, however. According to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21748401-mario-gonzalez-second-autopsy-report011522/\">autopsy report\u003c/a>, Gonzalez’s death was caused by “restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If not for his asphyxial brain injury, Mr. Gonzalez-Arenales, more likely than not, would not have died and was not expected to die on April 19, 2021,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinley’s defense argues those findings by Omalu led to an official determination that officers used unreasonable or excessive force when they pinned Gonzalez to the ground. 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