NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog

It’s time to take the offensive yellowface of “The Mikado” off the stage

Gil Asakawa — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:46:49 +0000

I recently blogged about a video produced by the City of Los Angeles – using taxpaper money – that was originally produced with good intentions: Explaining the importance of recycling water. But to make its point, the video used a ghastly, stereotypical caricature of geishas played by non-Asians with painted faces wearing kimonos, including one [...]

City of Los Angeles produces racist “geisha” video abt recycling water

Gil Asakawa — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:45:12 +0000

Wow, seriously? Who came up with this brilliant idea? Then who worked on it and who the hell approved it?

Hip-hop artist Jason Chu’s spoken-word tribute to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Gil Asakawa — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:40:21 +0000

Powerful stuff: Hip-hop artist Jason Chu has posted “A Thousand Names,” a spoken-word tribute to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month that’s worth seeing more than once to absorb the flow of poetry and the meaning of his words. He nails the story of family dynamics, immigrant hopes and dreams and generational passage of culture [...]

“The Red Kimono” captures the tragedy of internment, and the larger context of racial injustice

Gil Asakawa — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:44:55 +0000

For a long time, there were painfully few novels that were about the experience of Japanese Americans who were put into concentration camps during World War II. “Farewell to Manzanar,” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, which was published in 1973, stood alone, unless you counted the powerful post-war story of John Okada’s [...]

Karami: A new product that’s an old Japanese American twist on salsa

Gil Asakawa — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:59:59 +0000

Forget Pace Picante Sauce, which used to make a big deal of being made in San Antonio instead of phony salsas made in New York City. Forget San Antonio as well as New York City. Look no further than Pueblo and Boulder, Colorado. Boulder-based entrepreneur Kei Izawa and his partner, Jason Takaki, are launching a [...]

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