History of Chinatown/International District's Nihonmachi (Japantown). Includes history of the Nippon Kan Theatre (Nikkon Kan), a place which was the center of Japanese culture and arts, and which is now abandoned.
From a hospital bed a dying man unfolds the tale of an arduous life on the fringes of a Hawai'i sugar plantation in the 1920s. There Kim Sung Wha -- laborer, patriot, revolutionary, aviator -- envisioned building an airplane from ricepaper, bamboo,…
