George Takei speaks to reporters in front of a blue backdrop.

‘Star Trek’ actor recalls boyhood detention during WWII in camp for Japanese-Americans

George Takei was among the tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast whom President Franklin Roosevelt ordered removed to inland camps after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

Marcel Marceau talks to the press in Tokyo

MARCEL MARCEAU, THE MAN WHO HAS been hailed as "the greatest living exponent of the mime," walked into the Tokyo Press Club to meet the gentlemen of the Fourth Estate.

'Sunny Joe' Wolverton, Les Paul's mentor

RHUBARB RED AND SUNNY JOE, a swinging pair of Ozark Apple Knockers, held a long overdue reunion Wednesday night at the Grant Heights NCO Club.

Edward G. Robinson meets his match

AT TOKYO'S KABUKI-ZA THEATER SATURDAY AFTERNOON, where Steve Parker's "My Geisha" company was shooting premiere scenes for their film-within-a-film, we had lunch with the ageless and affable actor, Edward G. Robinson.

I don't intend to write anything about 'Sayonara'

"I DON'T INTEND TO WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT 'Sayonara'," says author Truman Capote. "Not a line."

Marion Michael Morrison called 'Duke'

MARION MICHAEL MORRISON, CALLED "DUKE" BY HIS friends but better-known as John Wayne to millions of movie-goers, resembled a beardless Abraham Lincoln in his cutaway coat and top hat.

The tiny fishing village of Kawana, Japan

THE TINY FISHING VILLAGE OF KAWANA, JAPAN, WILL have something to talk about for years and years to come.