Pop Culture
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Monster hunters descend upon California’s Japantowns with ‘Pokemon Go’
TOMO HIRAI, Nichi Bei Weekly
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Since the July 6 release of the “Pokemon Go” app for the iOS and Android devices, millions of users have downloaded the game to catch the popular Japanese video game […] READ MORE
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Gangnam Style video upends crossover success myths
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Anthropologists and linguists no doubt are having a field day trying to chronicle and dissect how, in the early autumn of 2012, “Gangnam Style” became an American idiomatic expression. It […] READ MORE
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Reflecting on diversity in video games through the LA Riots
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Editor’s Note: An edited version of this post was published in the May 4, 2012 issue of the Nichi Bei Weekly. Who here remembers the Los Angeles Riots of ‘92? […] READ MORE
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Hunger Games v. Battle Royale: Deja vu in simplification
TOMO HIRAI, Nichi Bei Weekly
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No. No, no, no, no, no. For once, I will step out of my normal realm of being ironic and trite to give a solid argument on something that has […] READ MORE
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Falling birth rates and infantile otaku culture
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I’m more of a Western gamer when it comes to my video gaming habits. I guess I just never got into the Moe-blob romance and tsundere masochism my friends have […] READ MORE
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Battle Royale Adapted for Live Theater in the Philippines
BEN HAMAMOTO, Nichi Bei Weekly
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http://www.youtube.com/watch’feature=player_embedded&v=dtfYaOEXNlA Now no matter what they do with the American remake, we’ll always at least have this. I seriously have to remember to check Twitch much, much more often. From […] READ MORE
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Aziz Ansari Tour Dates Announced
Ben Hamamoto
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Tickets for Ansari’s “Buried Alive” standup tour can be purchased here. Ben HamamotoBen Hamamoto is a writer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been published in […] READ MORE
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The Best Films of 2011: An Alternate to the Oscars
Ben Hamamoto
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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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Is the Non-existent Lin/Kardashian Date a Problem?
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So Asian America collectively shuddered the other day at rumors that Jeremy Lin and Kim Kardashian might go on a date. (Interestingly, if you Google “jeremy lin,” “jeremy lin kim […] READ MORE
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Buying American, Japan bashing in the post-industrial
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UPDATE: It appears I was mistaken, and this was all just a clever ruse. I rescind my offer and reactionary knee jerk reaction. What? Something wrong happened on the Internet? Well […] READ MORE
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