Blogs
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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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Lou Dobbs vs. Miyazaki
Ben Hamamoto
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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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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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Ume plum ‘season’ in the Bay Area
Pauline Fujita
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In early May as the first strawberries are getting everyone excited about fruit again my anticipation is instead devoted singularly to ume plums. Ume season in Japan falls around the […] READ MORE
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‘Bridging the Gap’: In Conversation with Sansei Musician/Producer/Songwriter Michael Sasaki & Nisei Educator/Writer/Performer George Yoshida
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Part 1: Michael Sasaki I’m sitting in the frigid cold of an air that has been conditioned to make the arms on your hair stand on end. While awaiting the […] READ MORE
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Re: Connection — dNaga danceNAGANUMA’s 10th anniversary
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I’m sitting with my wife in Laney College’s theater in Oakland, Calif. as the curtains draw for Artistic Director and Choreographer Claudine Naganuma’s 10th anniversary of dNaga danceNAGANUMA, admittedly not […] READ MORE
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“Miwa: A Japanese Icon” Tonight at the Castro
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In Japan, Miwa Akihiro is a household name. The 76-year-old, openly gay, bleached blonde, drag queen, actor/author/singer is a regular face on Japanese television, known for making outrageous, cutting and […] READ MORE
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Fun With Marketing: Children’s Films in Japan
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I’ve been thinking a lot about what Chinese consumer power is going to mean for images of Asian people in Hollywood films — (even if offending Asian Americans doesn’t effect […] READ MORE
