URASOE, Okinawa Prefecture--Nobuko Oshiro didn't back off when her instructor of an Okinawan-style dance suggested that she take karate to improve her dance steps. “I found that a karate dojo ...

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YAKIMA, Wash. — When Sumiko Harris celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday at the Harman Center, dozens of “family” members turned out to wish her well. But these weren’t family in the biological sense.