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	<title>NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog</title>
	
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	<description>Gil Asakawa's Japanese American perspective on pop culture, media and politics</description>
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		<title>The Men from U.N.C.L.E. — the 1960s’ top TV spies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I received one of the coolest gifts ever &#8212; a 41-DVD boxed set of &#8220;The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,&#8221; the TV spy series that ran from 1964-&#8217;68. The set came in a package that looks like a secret agent&#8217;s briefcase, and includes all 105 episodes of the program, plus a ton of extras such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denver AAJA chapter to host candlelight vigil for Euna Lee and Laura Ling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/?p=1418</guid>
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Journalism can be a dangerous business. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 735 have been killed so far since Jan. 1, 1992 when the organization began keeping track. Many others are kidnapped or imprisoned while they do their work, covering conflicts and uncovering injustices all over the world. 
Sometimes, like in the case of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mee Moua next up on visualizAsian.com’s AAPI interview series</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2009/06/28/mee-moua-next-up-on-visualizasian-coms-aapi-interview-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/?p=1413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, when Erin gave a training workshop for young Asian Americans at the Rise Conference in Denver, she asked the assembled youths their ethnic backgrounds. One woman stod up and said she was Hmong. She said all hger life, she&#8217;s had to explain her heritage when people ask &#8220;What&#8217;s a Hmong? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Jackson tribute by David Choi: “Ben”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s a video that was coincidentally uploaded to YouTube by singer-songwriter David Choi, whose stuff I like very much, on June 23, just two days before Michael Jackson, the &#8220;King of Pop&#8221; suddenly and shockingly died. (It&#8217;s the third-listed link on You Tube when you search for &#8220;Michael Jackson.&#8221;)
&#8220;Ben&#8221; is an unusual choice for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vincent Chin’s hate crime attack was 27 years ago today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/?p=1384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vincent Chin was beaten with a baseball bat 27 years ago today in a Detroit suburb, and died four days later.
At the time, I was three years out of art school, managing a paint store, and was a budding young rock critic writing for Denver&#8217;s alternative newspaper, Westword. I didn&#8217;t follow any news coverage about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author-activist Phoebe Eng is next up on visualizAsian.com’s AAPI Empowerment series</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nikkeiview/~3/cFarCLuH-zA/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2009/06/10/author-activist-phoebe-eng-is-next-up-on-visualizasiancoms-aapi-empowerment-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/?p=1372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Erin Yoshimura and I started visualizAsian.com to interview Asian American Pacific Islander leaders and tell their stories to empower other AAPIs to follow in their footsteps. So far, it&#8217;s been an absolute blast.
The website launched with a conversation with former Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta on May 21, and this week we spoke with Yul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coke with green tea? In Japan? Say it ain’t so!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nikkeiview/~3/5k9ttjeWWD4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2009/06/06/coke-with-green-tea-in-japan-say-it-aint-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/?p=1359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer culture in Japan is where you&#8217;ll see the collision of Asian and American tastes. More than in the U.S., Japan is where East mashes West. You can get shrimp Filet-o-Fish sandwiches at McDonald&#8217;s, or pizza with seaweed or squid, and spaghetti with salty plum sauce.
So I supposes I shouldn&#8217;t be dismayed at the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Japanese (again): A question of identity</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nikkeiview/~3/SvNTsFycu1o/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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I was born in Japan, so I can say this with a straight face: I&#8217;m becoming a born-again Japanese, and it&#8217;s kinda fun.
For years now, Erin and I have thought of ourselves as Asian American first, and Japanese American second. Mostly, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re interested in and feel a kinship with other Asian Americans, whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KFC TV commercial portrays Asians as foreigners with accents</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nikkeiview/~3/-7aKoaSP4yY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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When I posted the video yesterday, of a 1970s Calgon commercial that showed Asian Americans in a stereotypical role as laundry shop owners who used an &#8220;ancient Chinese secret&#8221; to get clothes cleaner, it was an homage to an earlier era when such stereotypes in pop culture were commonplace. I didn&#8217;t expect that one day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Asian American Colorado Leadership Program: not a typical a “beauty pageant”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 18:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Asakawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Erika Tanaka, the young Japanese and Vietnamese American woman who won the second annual Miss Asian American Colorado Leadership Program&#8217;s Finale Show last night. The tiara was there, along with the glitz and glamor. 
But there was no swimsuit competition, and no one mentioned &#8220;world peace.&#8221; 
This is no ordinary beauty pageant. 
The [...]]]></description>
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