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Gil Asakawa Pop culture can be a mirror that reflects the issues and values of its time — for good…

Gil Asakawa When my family moved from Japan to the Washington, D.C., area in 1966 when I was 8 years…

Gil Asakawa Racial stereotypes used to be part of the American consumer landscape — everywhere you turned, there was a…

Gil Asakawa Every year on the Saturday before Memorial Day Weekend, people converge in southeast Colorado to visit Amache, the…

Gil Asakawa Like most countries including the U.S., Japan is struggling with the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.…

  Gil Asakawa It took 15 years, but the U.S. Postal Service this past June released a Forever stamp that…

Gil Asakawa In her excellent book “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food,” former New York…

Gil Asakawa It’s been a tragic and depressing couple of months. Amidst the rising numbers of anti-Asian hate incidents, including…

Gil Asakawa Hate crimes against Asians are on the rise. Again. And this time, there’s a difference: The “mainstream” media,…