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Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories

“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or invisibility,” Eddie Wong recalls. “We knew we could make a ...

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Mits Kataoka, Communications Designer, New Media Visionary - Part 2: Lessons from Life

Read Part 1 >> The son of two Japanese immigrants who met and married in Los Angeles, Kataoka was born in 1934 in the city’s ...

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Mits Kataoka, Communications Designer, New Media Visionary - Part 1: A Pioneering Influence

Mitsuru “Mits” Kataoka, was an entrepreneurial visionary who fostered artistic explorations of electronic media among generations of students and colleagues at UCLA’s department of ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Bill Hosokawa: Out of the Frying Pan

He sat in his special chair, a blanket covered his knees, the sun warming him. Around him lay the ruins of five newspapers. His morning ...

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Advice for Modern America, from When Buddhism Was Seen as a National Threat - Part 1

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Buddhism was considered a threat to America. Hondo Lobley interviews scholar Duncan Williams about what we might ...

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Marvel Comics’ New Editor-in-Chief Once Pretended to be Japanese

OK, now I’ve heard everything. It’s enough that for the past few years, we’ve had to grit our teeth over white and ...

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YouTube Star Ryan Higa’s Latest Conquest: Books

In early 2005, when Facebook was fighting for dominance against a rival called MySpace — and before “social media” became part of our daily routine, another ...

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Hokubei Jiji The Pillar of Early Japanese Immigrants

A place to share information is part of an indispensable building block for the formation of immigrant communities. Today, various mediums serve as information transmitters ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry # Less Than 2 Hours: "Nightly Anxieties..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “My Insomniac Brain” (Or “Thoughts That Keep Me Up ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry # Ideally 1500 mg Per Day: "Grub Out!!..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Only in Japan (Not That The U.S. Is ...