AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: Learning About Asian Americans Through Pop Culture Gil Asakawa Pop culture can be a mirror that reflects the issues and values of its time — for good…P.C. EditorSeptember 22, 2022
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: Acknowledging My Inspirations Gil Asakawa When my family moved from Japan to the Washington, D.C., area in 1966 when I was 8 years…P.C. EditorAugust 12, 2022
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: I’m So Disappointed to See Stereotyped Snack Packaging in My Supermarket Gil Asakawa Racial stereotypes used to be part of the American consumer landscape — everywhere you turned, there was a…P.C. EditorJune 3, 2022
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: Amache’s 2022 Pilgrimage Will Be Very, Very Special Gil Asakawa Every year on the Saturday before Memorial Day Weekend, people converge in southeast Colorado to visit Amache, the…P.C. EditorApril 2, 2022
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: A Late Colorado Photographer’s Visions of Kyoto Gil Asakawa Like most countries including the U.S., Japan is struggling with the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.…P.C. EditorFebruary 4, 2022
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: Chinese Food Was Popular in America Before Japanese Cuisine Gil Asakawa In her excellent book “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food,” former New York…P.C. EditorSeptember 10, 2021
AsakawaColumnistsUncategorized A Pronunciation Guide for Japanese Words Including panko, udon, sake, anime and karaoke Gil Asakawa I originally wrote this article as a blog post in 2009, and it’s been the most popular post…P.C. EditorAugust 6, 2021
AsakawaColumnists Anti-Asian Hate Isn’t Just in the Form of Shootings and Attacks Gil Asakawa It’s been a tragic and depressing couple of months. Amidst the rising numbers of anti-Asian hate incidents, including…P.C. EditorMay 7, 2021
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice : Remembering Denver’s Chinatown Roots in the Midst of Renewed Anti-Asian Hate Gil Asakawa Hate crimes against Asians are on the rise. Again. And this time, there’s a difference: The “mainstream” media,…P.C. EditorMarch 5, 2021
AsakawaColumnists Nikkei Voice: Corky Lee, the Most Important Asian American Photographer That People Didn’t Know About Gil Asakawa A great American photographer died on Jan. 27 at a hospital in Queens, N.Y., his hometown. But you…P.C. EditorFebruary 5, 2021