By Rob Buscher, Contributor From silent film actor Sessue Hayakawa to James Beard Award-winning chef Nobuo Fukuda and everything in…
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By Rob Buscher, Contributor In August at the weekend-long “Unite the Right” rally, white nationalists descended onto Charlottesville, Va., thrusting…
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Sessue Hayakawa starred in 1919's ”His Debt,” which was produced by his Haworth Pictures Corp. Early Asian American actors persevered…
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A 2013 Guthrie Theater presentation of Mu Performing Arts production of playwright Rick Shiomi’s “Yellow Fever.” Now approaching the fifth…
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Japanese pineapple workers in Hawaii. By Rob Buscher, Contributor In the weeks and months since the current administration took office,…
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A look at how to sustain J.A. identity in today’s United States By Rob Buscher, Contributor In a community that…
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A photo of the author’s maternal grandmother, Asako, prior to moving to the U.S. from Japan. By Rob Buscher, Contributor…
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JACL Philadelphia board members Don Kajioka, far left, and Rob Buscher, right center, and Hiro Nishikawa, second from right, with…
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By Rob Buscher, Member, JACL Philadelphia Board of Directors The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF), the largest Asian American…
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British actor Christopher Lee, in yellowface makeup, played the fictional “Oriental” villain Fu Manchu in several movies. One JACL Philadelphia…
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