Tag: travel
member name: gil asakawa
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 09:17 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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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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October 30, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
Note: This long and self-indulgent piece is a journal of an annual road trip I used to make with my best friend Leland Rucker, to the South By Southwest Music and Media Conference (better known as SXSW, . . .
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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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September 30, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
Thursday, Sept. 20
This was a food and friendship day. We got up and had a leisurely morning, hanging around Richela's condo. Then Erin and I drove past downtown to meet up with Bill Rose, one of . . .
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October 14, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
Friday, Sept. 21
Another big food day. We're eating our way across Oahu.
It was also a day of hunting history.
We began the day with Richela, who joined us in a drive downtown to the Japanese Cultural . . .
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October 14, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Sat. Sept. 22
It's our last day in Honolulu, but we're now slowing down. It's jam-packed, with a trip to the fabled Flea Market that Erin has been raving about since we've been planning . . .
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