Tag: asian american
member name: gil asakawa
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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 21, 2006 01:35 AM EST --
Note: The article I just posted got me to thinking about a column I wrote way back in the day, before blogs were a twinkle in some developer's eye, about Asians on TV. It's posted in the archives . . .
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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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April 19, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
There's a fascinating discussion going around in the e-mail list for New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. It began the day that news of the Virginia Tech shootings broke, . . .
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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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December 21, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
When "Survivor" announced its just-ended season, I was one of the many critics who thought splitting up the tribes along racial factors was a stupid and potentially harmful idea. After just two . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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