Gil Asakawa We marked Memorial Day weekend with a tradition that’s held every year on the holiday, at Denver’s Fairmount…
P.C. EditorJune 2, 2023
Gil Asakawa When I was a kid in Japan, I don’t remember going to Hanami, or “Flower Viewing” during sakura…
P.C. EditorApril 7, 2023
Gil Asakawa We are in a moment. An important moment for Asian American Pacific Islander and Desi representation in American…
P.C. EditorFebruary 10, 2023
Gil Asakawa Pop culture can be a mirror that reflects the issues and values of its time — for good…
P.C. EditorSeptember 22, 2022
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
Gil Asakawa Racial stereotypes used to be part of the American consumer landscape — everywhere you turned, there was a…
P.C. EditorJune 3, 2022
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
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
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