nice article!

vkm — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:12:44 -0700

Hi Simone!

I enjoyed reading part 2. It reminded me of my last visit to NY to visit a friend. She took Russ & I to an area with some Japanese restaurants and then to some other Japanese shops - a really nice manju-ya near Rockefeller Center, a place that only served desserts that was run by a Japanese woman. It struck me then too how much of NY's Nikkei population seemed more Japanese than JA.

We ate dinner one night at a place where we could order various appetizer-like dishes - various yummy things on skewers and small plates. What I found was really cool though was that they were playing '80s J-pop, which was the time period that I really followed Japanese music so I recognized a lot of the songs. Through those songs, I found a connection back to my youth - going to Little Tokyo to buy records (still bought some vinyl back then!), cassettes, videos, and magazines.

Little Momo in the Big Apple - Culture Clashes from Coast to Coast, continued

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:59:58 -0700

Culture Clashes from Coast to Coast, continued

By Simone Momoye Fujita

Part II: East Coast Style
read part I

When I decided to attend college in New York, I knew there would be a period of adjustment after leaving my family and home state of California, but I did not anticipate the type of culture shock that ensued.

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nice article!

Little Momo in the Big Apple - Culture Clashes from Coast to Coast, continued

Culture Clashes from Coast to Coast, continued