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 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
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
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
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
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
