Tebow-mania gets Denver Filipinos attention in Philippines press
The glow of Tebow-mania will fade as the Broncos head into the off-season, but the quarterback’s remarkable run with the team put the spotlight light on Denver’s Filipino community before the season’s...
View ArticleJANM names new CEO, G.W. Kimura
The Japanese American National Museum today announced it’s named a new Chief Executive Officer, G.W. “Greg” Kimura, to lead the Los Angeles-based institution. Kimura is a hapa (mixed race)...
View ArticleV3con held a digital media mirror up to Asian Americans
The V3 conference for Asian America Digital Media, which was held August 25 in Los Angeles, was a landmark event. It was the first time that Asian American media from both journalism and the...
View ArticleJapanese farmer/restaurateur makes udon noodles the old-fashioned way
Here’s a very nice short video from The Perennial Plate, a blog about sustainable food, that introduces us to Tetsuo Shimizu, a Japanese farmer and restaurateur. He makes his own udon noodles from...
View ArticleNew United direct flight between Denver & Tokyo on 787 Dreamliner is a dream...
Living in Colorado has its benefits: Great weather, great outdoor recreation, great people and a central location for traveling to either coast. But it’s not the most convenient place if you want to...
View ArticleMuseums — even tiny ones — are where our collective culture is stored
I visited the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in Portland, Oregon last week while on a business trip to the northwest, and I was struck at how important organizations like it, and the museum it operates...
View ArticleDenver’s direct flight to Tokyo is no longer a flight of fantasy
United flight 139 from Denver International Airport to Tokyo’s Narita Airport flies direct daily, and shaves off hours of travel time and stress from flying to the west coast for a connecting flight to...
View ArticlePowerful, moving TV commercial from Thailand
Yeah, it’s three minutes long, but why can’t more TV commercials be this inspirational? Brilliant… but have some tissues handy.Related Posts:Groupon sparks ire of Asian Americans (& supporters...
View ArticleNagomi Visit introduces Japanese culture to visitors through home-cooked meals
There’s no getting around it: One of the most reliable ways to generate international friendship and cultural understanding is through the stomach. Diversity in dining is a reflection of an evolving...
View Article“Hawaii Five-0″ airs powerful episode about Pearl Harbor & imprisonment of...
We’re fans of the CBS series “Hawaii Five-0” for lots of reasons, including the fact that it’s a showcase for Asian and Pacific Islander actors such as Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, and the...
View ArticleWhen JAs say “camp” they’re not talking about summer camp
It’s a rite of greeting among older Japanese Americans. I’ve seen it happen over and over – one JA is introduced to another, and if they’re old enough, the first question they ask of each other is,...
View ArticleBook reviews: End-of-summer reads about JAs and Japan
When the Japanese Canadian newspaper Nikkei Voice asked me to write about my favorite recent books related to Japan, I realized that I’ve read some books in the past year that I never got around to...
View ArticleMeet Frank Jang and the Chinatown Photographic Society
As a visitor walks down the steps to the gallery space, he’s greeted by the buzz of people discussing photography. Bright lighting illuminates dozens of great photographs mounted, framed and arranged...
View ArticleReal ramen is finally coming to Denver, and it’s about time
I grew up in Japan when I was a kid, and have vivid memories of bowls of ramen and soba noodles stacked high in bowls or boxes, being delivered by crazy men riding bicycles through crazy Tokyo traffic...
View ArticleRead who, how and why Japanese settled in Colorado
Most books about Japanese Americans focus on the West Coast because that’s where Japanese first arrived and settled on the US mainland. So few well-known books tell the stories of Japanese as they...
View ArticleHaircut and history
NOTE: I just heard today that Mas Nonaka, a member of the local Japanese American community who has cut hair at several iterations of his barbershop, Nonaka’s, in and around Sakura Square since before...
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