Life Connected AP Heritage Special: Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto is the founder and Artistic Director of Great Leap, a nonprofit arts organization which uses arts to promote a deeper understanding between diverse cultures of America. Founded in 1978, Great Leap was created to fill the lack of creative productions that addressed Asian American culture. However, after the Los Angeles riots in 1992, Miyamoto changed her perspective. She saw how much hatred there was among the various cultural groups. NBC4’s Gordon Tokumatsu catches up with Nobuko Miyamoto at El Marino Language School in Culver City to talk to her about how she decided to be part of the solution bridging the cultural divide. Plus, we take look at another of our many communities, Chinatown.