Tag: apa
member name: gil asakawa
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July 09, 2007 01:44 AM EDT --
For most people -- but I think especially for Japanese Americans, who tend to come from very defined communities bound together by geographic roots, generational branchings and, for many, the shared trauma . . .
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September 27, 2006 07:50 PM EDT --
Iva Toguri D'Aquino died Sept. 26, at age 90, in Chicago. You might not know her, or remember her today, but she was a victim of circumstance who was once one of the most hated women in the United . . .
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December 19, 2006 02:38 AM EST --
My wife Erin and I attended a networking event tonight of a new organization forming in Denver, the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Asian American Professionals, and had a great time with . . .
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January 14, 2008 01:32 AM EST --
Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro and Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan in "Bones."
The best thing about DVDs is the opportunity to fall in love with television . . .
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September 09, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
NOTE: This is an excerpt from the first chapter of my book, "Being Japanese American," which was published in 2004 by Stone Bridge Press. It's about the history and culture of Japanese Americans. . . .
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June 27, 2007 01:06 AM EDT --
We spent some time at the Sakura Matsuri, or Cherry Blossom Festival, in downtown Denver's Sakura Square this past weekend. It was a good chance to catch up with old friends and we ended up filling . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:30 PM EDT --
Makoto Iwamatsu died in July at the age of 72, of esophageal cancer. It's a huge loss to Asian Americans.
If you know him at all, you probably know him better as simply Mako, the Japanese actor, . . .
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June 27, 2007 01:00 AM EDT --
Way back in May, I didn't write about it, but I should have. In one week during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the character played by Masi Oka in the terrific series "Heroes" helped . . .
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September 20, 2007 11:41 PM EDT --
Sunday, Sept. 16
The Hanzawa-Sakuma family reunion was a Sunday brunch, held at a restaurant on Shafter Army Base in Honolulu. Because she was one of the organizing committee members, Laura had to get . . .
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September 21, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
Monday, Sept. 17
This day was one of discovery about my family. It began with my cousin Aileen Moriwake guiding us to the apartment of my Aunt Mary Asakawa and my cousin Keith, who's probably around . . .
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November 18, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
Bill Hosokawa in 2005, sitting next to a caricature at the Denver Press Club
Bill Hosokawa died of natural causes at age 92 in Sequim, Washington, where he lived with his daughter. . . .
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November 18, 2007 10:47 PM EST --
Members of the Grateful Crane Ensemble's "Moonlight Serenaders" in "The Camp Dance: The Music & The Memories," include (front row) Keiko Kawashima and Jason . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
The scene was surreal: I was part of a bon odori dance in the middle of the countryside, with a couple of hundred spectators -- mostly local Caucasian farm families, along with some Hispanic and African . . .
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September 09, 2006 09:01 PM EDT --
Food might be the cultural constant of the Japanese American community, even generations down the line, but language is the most important.
Without the ability to speak Japanese, we can't communicate . . .
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September 10, 2006 09:56 AM EDT --
This was a blog post that I wrote for Denverpost.com in 2005, when I managed that Web site (I now live and work in Jersey City, NJ). I traveled there with my mom for only the third time since my . . .
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October 11, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
These columns, about the search for my family roots and my father's hidden past, were originally written and posted online during October and November, 1998 on my Nikkeiview.com site. Because they're . . .
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October 05, 2006 02:21 PM EDT --
Audrey Hepburn, one of the great, classic actresses of Hollywood of the '50s and '60s, may have died in 1993, but she's alive and well in American pop culture.
Her name, and the 1961 . . .
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September 18, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
Saturday, September 15
Yesterday was a long day, and a preview of today's reunion.
We started with the relaxed morning of papaya and conversation with Laura, but eventually moved on to the day's . . .
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September 24, 2007 09:14 AM EDT --
Tuesday, Sept. 18
We spent the day with Regine, Laura's twin sister, and the evening with Laura and John. She lives just a few minutes away in the older section of Mililani, land of rusty dirt. She . . .
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September 27, 2007 05:19 PM EDT --
Wednesday, Sept. 19
It was sad leaving Laura and John's in Mililani – it's a beautiful and comfortable home, and they were so gracious and generous, it felt like we've known them all . . .
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