February 2012
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The Best Films of 2011: An Alternate to the Oscars
February 28, 2012 by Ben Hamamoto
Every year, to coincide with the Academy Awards, I try to roughly rank all the films I saw in the previous year. I do this, instead of picking out a […] READ MORE
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Lou Dobbs vs. Miyazaki
February 24, 2012 by Ben Hamamoto
So the time comes again when I have to (half) defend Fox News. The network has a surprisingly lengthy recent history of taking issue with the subtext of children’s entertainment. Lou […] READ MORE
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San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival preview
February 24, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Celebrating 30 years of Asian American film, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival will kick off on Thursday, March 8 and run through Sunday, March 18. The festival, […] READ MORE
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THE KAERU KID: Bogota, Colombia: More than coffee
February 24, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. When one hears the word Colombia, thoughts of coffee, cocaine, and emeralds might come to mind, and not necessarily in […] READ MORE
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Northern Japan’s fancy foods
February 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Some 17,000 attendees swarmed the 1,300 companies that exhibited across 206,000 square feet of San Francisco’s expansive Moscone Center during the Winter Fancy Food Show. The specialty foods trade show, now in […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: How to be Asian American
February 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
I have been seeing a young black writer, Baratunde Thurston, on TV who is promoting a book that he has written called, “How To Be Black.” I have not read […] READ MORE
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Why Jeremy Lin Matters: Asian male images in the media
February 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Pop culture traditionally has painted Asians as awkward, unathletic and never the leading man, like Long Duk Dong from a 1980s film. In just a week, Lin has shattered the […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Koichi Victor Honda
February 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
HONDA, KOICHI VICTOR passed away on Feb. 13 at the age of 89 in Walnut Creek, Calif. He was born in Portland, Ore. on July 10, 1922. During WWII, Victor […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Asako Machida Hamai
February 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
HAMAI, ASAKO MACHIDA passed peacefully with her devoted children at her side on February 13, 2012 in Berkeley, Calif. Born on Aug. 22, 1925 in Sasebo, Japan, she came to […] READ MORE
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Community fine-tunes city redistricting draft
February 23, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
A little more than a dozen people met at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) on the evening of Feb. 15 to discuss the redistricting process […] READ MORE
