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2004 ARCHIVES
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Howdy,
Welcome to the "Nikkei View" archives. You'll find the headlines for all my 2004 (and one 2005) columns below; just click to read each article.
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-- Gil
- 16 February,
2005: Adding racism
on top of stupidity
A New York radio station's morning show team uses racism in their "spoof" of the tsunami tragedy. - 6 December,
2004: When JPNZ
use "JAP"
JAs are finally making some headway in the effiort to get Americans to stop using "Jap" in public signs and as the abbreviation for Japan. But what about the Japanese themselves, who don't care? - 18 October,
2004: Thanks,
Michelle!
Michelle Malkin's book, "In Defense of Internment," has the Japanese American community all up in arms. She thinks the U.S. was justified in interning people of Japanese ancestry during WWII, and that the government should be using racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims today. - 23 August, 2004:
Blade runners
Between "Last Samurai" and "Kill Bill," samurai are hot in Hollywood. Now, filmmaker Takeshi Kitano brings a modern version of a traditional Japanese samurai to the West. - 18 July, 2004:
JapJapJapJapJapJap
It's amazing -- and sad -- to think that we're fighting in 2004 over the use of the word "Jap." - 16 May, 2004:
Selling Out --
to Asians
A recent marketing campaign aimed at Asian Americans by McDonald's got me to thinking about our place -- or lack of it -- in the American mainstream. - 26 April, 2004:
Prisoners in their
own land
I've been following the sad story of the Japanese hostages who were released by Iraq and returned to Japan to a storm of criticism. Sometimes I feel more American than Japanese, and this is one of those times. - 29 March, 2004:
Serving up a Plate
of Community
For over 40 years, the Brighton Japanese American Association has served a chow mein dinner to serve its community. - 22 March, 2004:
Sakura Time
Springtime means the new school year, the new fiscal year, and the blossoming of the cherry blossoms in Japan. - 16 March, 2004:
Perspectives on
History
A Web site and traveling exhibit co-created by Pulitzer-winning Japan scholar John Dower shows how the opening of Japan by Commodore Matthew Perry 150 years ago was viewed by both the Japanese and the Americans. - 16 February,
2004: The JA's
"Greatest Generation": The Nisei
A new book, "Nisei Voices," chronicles the lives of Nisei who were student valedictorians in the 1930s, and how they survived the wartime years and rebuilt thir lives. - 8 December,
2003: Samurai
Lessons
Tom Cruise's new movie, "The Last Samurai," treats historical Japan with respect and a good story; there's no need to protest it without even seeing the film. - 10 November,
2003: Going for
Broke Again -- This Time from a JA Perspective
A new movie project worth supporting is a feature film about the heroism of the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Nisei soldiers of WWII.
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