Tag: history
member name: gil asakawa
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October 24, 2006 10:27 AM EDT --
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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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September 28, 2006 08:04 PM EDT --
Note: This column was first posted on my Nikkeiview.com Web site in 2003, when I read the book "1421: The Year China Discovered America." This week the BBC ran this story about the 600-year anniversary . . .
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December 07, 2006 11:57 AM EST --
I grew up being apprehensive every December 7. I'm Japanese American, and was born long after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, but for a long time I felt an inescapable sense of responsibility . . .
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September 24, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
I grew up – like all baby boomers – during an era of radio when the Top 40 format was perfected during the first two decade of rock and roll, genres didn't divide up into separate formats. . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
One of my ongoing passions is pondering the passing of pop culture references. Baby boomers have lived through decades of new hip phrases -- for instance, the hip word for "good" has evolved . . .
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September 06, 2006 11:05 PM EDT --
I'm watching "JFK: Breaking the News," a fascinating documentary on WNET, one of the New York area's PBS stations, about the media coverage of the November, 1963 assassination of . . .
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September 06, 2006 11:13 PM EDT --
I'm proud to be a Baby Boomer, because of all the historical implications my generation has had. Not the usual stuff about living through the Vietnam war and rock and roll and Kennedy and civil rights . . .
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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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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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November 06, 2006 09:32 PM EST --
As a history fan, I have many research resources on hand with information year-by-year. My specialty was putting popular culture in its news/historical context, with each year's significant facts and . . .
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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 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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October 08, 2006 10:35 AM EDT --
Authors' note: "The Toy Book" is a social history of baby boomer-era toys. This is an excerpt from "The Big Bang Theory" chapter, which starts out covering the cowboy craze of the . . .
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September 10, 2006 10:29 PM EDT --
Note: I'm re-posting this to a couple of other groups. I feel it's especially worth discussion in light of North Korea's frightening entry into the age of nuclear warfare.
I recently finally . . .
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November 06, 2006 09:17 PM EST --
Quick, think of the great music capitals of the U.S. -- New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Motown (that would be Detroit), Austin, Memphis if you believe Elvis is still alive and Seattle if you're a . . .
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