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ABOUT
WHAT'S THE NIKKEIVIEW?
Howdy,
My name is Gil Asakawa. I write this stuff.
"Nikkeiview" is a weekly online column about popular culture and politics from my Japanese American perspective. The Nikkeiview Blog is an extension of the column, where I'll write more often and also cover topics such as pop culture in general, technology, the media and life in New Jersey.
Although the Nikkei is Japan's
financial index, the word "Nikkei" is also the term for people
of Japanese descent outside of Japan.
"Nikkeiview" is reprinted regularly on various Web sites including
Denver's AsiaXpress.com and Hybrid
Magazine. I'm a proud partner of Asian-American
Village,
a terrific Web site of news APA and opinions (and jobs). The column appears
weekly in the "Rocky Mountain Jiho," the bilingual newspaper
of Denver's Japanese and Japanese American community, and regularly
in Denver's monthly Asian Pacific American
American Times. It's also syndicated
by the "Northwest Nikkei" bilingual newspaper in Seattle. Some
of the columns have also appeared in the Northern California JA community
newspaper, "NikkeiWest,"
and other JA community papers.
If any other publication out there would like to publish "Nikkeiview," please contact me!
"Nikkeiview" has received recognition: The column was awarded "Site of the Month" from Japan Reference Page, a comprehensive site for links to Web sites for and about Japan. I received an "honorable mention" in the 1998 Online Writing Contest sponsored by TheWell.com for my column about Japanese names. And The Rocky Mountain News chose Nikkei View as one of Colorado's Top 100 Web Sites two years in a row. That, and $1.50 will buy me a cup of coffee at Peaberry's....
As the author of Nikkeiview, I've been interviewed by the Miami Herald for an article about the flood of Asian popular culture into the American mainstream, and I was asked to record a commentary about the opening of "Pearl Harbor" for Pacific Time, a weekly program on KQED, San Francisco's National Public Radio station. I've also been interviewed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
In 2004, the San Francisco publisher Stone Bridge Press published my book, "Being Japanese American," which takes the Nikkeiview columns a step farther. I've received some nice publicity and reviews, and in 2006 I was interviewed by Donna Seebo for her syndicated radio show.
Although I was born in Japan, I'm a third generation Japanese American, or Sansei -- my father was born in Hawaii and my mother is from Japan. I was born in Tokyo as a military brat, and our family moved to the U.S. when I was 8 years old. I have vivid memories of Japan from my childhood, but my consciousness is American. I love the fact that I'm a product of both cultures, and with these columns, I hope to serve as a bridge to make sense of Japanese for Americans, and vice versa for Japanese.
I'm active in the Denver Japanese American community, as an executive board member of the Japan-America Society of Colorado and as a board member and former president of the board for the Japanese American Citizens League's Mile-Hi Chapter. I'm also serving as the Editorial Board Chair for the Pacific Citizen, the JACL's bimonthly national newspaper. I'm also active in the pan-Asian community. You can read more about me in a brief biography or in my resume.
I
hope you enjoy the columns -- if you haven't read them before, please
check my archives, and let me know what you
think! This is always a work in progress....
-- Gil