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Racism against Asian Americans has been in the news recently. There’s often discussion as t…

Thomas M. Nishi • Dec. 28, 2023

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Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later

I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and langu…

Gil Asakawa • Nov. 30, 2023

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A Partial and Personal Timeline of Asian American Men on Stage and Screen

Teahouse of the August Moon (1979) I’m dressed in a long dyed-purple tunic that comes down t…

Tamiko Nimura • May 9, 2023

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Black Mermaids and Nikkei Superheroes

The recent uproar over Halle Bailey, a Black actress, playing the Little Mermaid brought back a p…

Alden M. Hayashi • Nov. 3, 2022

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I’m so disappointed to see stereotyped snack packaging in my supermarket

Racial stereotypes used to be part of the American consumer landscape – everywhere you turned…

Gil Asakawa • May 25, 2022

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Asian representation: It’s getting better, but still has ages-old challenges

Japanese Americans and the wider Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities are seeing…

Gil Asakawa • Dec. 22, 2021

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Stereotype, the mistake of thinking that all Nikkei are the same

When the subject is society, we automatically talk about history. Human relationships are analyzed …

Tatiana Maebuchi • Dec. 30, 2019

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About the web series NipoBrasileiros

When I found out that the web series NipoBrasileiros would be released on YouTube in April this ye…

Silvia Lumy Akioka • July 8, 2019

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Journal Entry #Introduced in '61: "Née Ken Carson..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • July 1, 2017

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A Look at the Emigration of Identity from Japan to America

When we talk about the state of the Japanese American community today, one of the most common remar…

Ben Hamamoto • Oct. 26, 2016

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Is It Racist?

Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later

A Partial and Personal Timeline of Asian American Men on Stage and Screen

Black Mermaids and Nikkei Superheroes

I’m so disappointed to see stereotyped snack packaging in my supermarket

Asian representation: It’s getting better, but still has ages-old challenges

Stereotype, the mistake of thinking that all Nikkei are the same

About the web series NipoBrasileiros

Journal Entry #Introduced in '61: "Née Ken Carson..."

A Look at the Emigration of Identity from Japan to America