Tag: japanese
member name: gil asakawa
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December 29, 2006 01:30 AM EST --
As a child, Christmas was always more important to me than the New Year holiday. I was spoiled rotten with toys and each year I could hardly wait to rip open the latest pile of presents to make sure I . . .
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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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October 24, 2006 10:27 AM EDT --
A Gatherish note: If you enjoy this article (or any article or image on Gather.com), please don't forget to rate it by clicking on the stars below, and also to post your comment. Thanks! - Gill
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December 04, 2006 12:38 AM EST --
The Washington Post recently reported that the government of Japan is going to start checking out Japanese restaurants all over the world and handing out seals of approvals for those deemed to be serving . . .
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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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December 01, 2007 12:57 PM EST --
In the U.S., snack food manufacturers in recent years have become creative, and come up with a variety of flavor combinations beyond the old barbecue-flavor potato chips or the nacho cheese flavored . . .
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December 19, 2006 12:07 PM EST --
Americans are starting the commercial frenzy of the holiday season earlier and earlier every year. It used to be that the Christmas season was kicked off the Friday after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping . . .
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January 08, 2007 07:01 PM EST --
Most Americans, at least of my generation, will probably recognize this phrase: "There are people starving in Africa." The geographic locale might change -- China, Ethiopia - but the meaning . . .
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September 27, 2006 09:04 AM EDT --
The Japanese are crazy about anything Western, especially anything American, right? It's true in many ways and on many levels, but one of my passions as a pop-culture critic has been to note how Americans . . .
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December 19, 2006 12:18 PM EST --
As I face the new year, I have to admit one horrible weakness. I don't do origami.
This is a fact I've known for years - since my childhood in Japan. I've just been ashamed to admit it publicly. . . .
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January 09, 2007 03:17 PM EST --
The world lost a food pioneer last Friday. Momofuku Ando, 97, was the man who invented instant ramen -- the low budget dining delicacy of college students everywhere.
Long before sushi, there was another . . .
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July 09, 2007 01:52 AM EDT --
Two news items worth noting, although one is kinda old already:
First Burger King has announced that in Hawaii, they're selling a new item, a Spam Platter -- two slices of Spam nestled between white . . .
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December 29, 2006 01:05 AM EST --
I don't have a lot of memories of New Year celebrations in Japan.
New year's ozoni soup.
I was only 8 when we moved to the States, so I was never allowed to - or able to - stay up until . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
The ebb and flow of New York neighborhoods is a great example of how cities evolve.
When I attended Pratt Institute in the late 1970s, the East Village neighborhood in Manhattan along St. Marks Place . . .
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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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February 10, 2008 06:41 PM EST --
Hot stuff: Orochon Ramen lets you choose your level of heat. I opted for #3 and it was pretty damned warm.
When Erin and I were in LA last month, we ate dinner with her cousin Lisa . . .
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April 19, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
It's silly, and I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but Erin and I are addicted to "Dancing with the Stars" this season. We hadn't watched it at all in the past, but began tuning . . .
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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 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 15, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
It's great to feel so welcomed.
Erin and I arrived late yesterday afternoon at Honolulu Airport and called up Regina Shimomura, a cousin I'd never met. She's the twin sister of Laura McHugh, . . .
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