[caption id="attachment_4763" align="alignleft" width="520"] This bronze statue of Buddha, at 15 meters (almost 50 feet, or five stories) tall, is the largest bronze statue of Buddha in the world. It sits in one of the largest wooden structures in the world, Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan. I shot this photo during a 2011 trip.[/caption] An excellent, thoughtful and thought-provoking article on...
This commercial debuts on TV during the American Music Awards. Takei, who's a hero to Asian Americans, gay people and sci-fi geeks the world over, is just so shameless about having fun in everything he does...
I have a soft spot for children's music, especially if they're traditional folk songs of any culture. But the children's music that really tugs at my heart are the timeless melodies I grew up with as a kid in Japan. So when I listened to Elena Moon Park and Friends' beautiful and fun album, "Rabbit Days and Dumplings," I was...
Here's a very nice short video from The Perennial Plate, a blog about sustainable food, that introduces us to Tetsuo Shimizu, a Japanese farmer and restaurateur. He makes his own udon noodles from wheat he grows, and serves it up in Shogotei Restaurant he opened to supplement the meager income he makes as a farmer. It's an inspiration glimpse of...
When journalist Seth Rosenfeld wrote in a San Francisco Chronicle article in August that Richard Aoki, the mysterious Japanese American who was one of the leaders of the radical Black Panther Party, was an FBI informant during the turbulent 1960s, the revelation exploded within the Asian American community. The bombshell brought on a fussilade of defenses of Aoki's place as a...
Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh are a hyper-creative husband-and-wife team who came up with a brilliant idea: "Dim Sum Warriors" an interactive comic book about kung fu-fighting sim sum characters that's available as an iPad app. Yeah, it sounds kinda corny but it's super cool. The app has all the action and coolness quotient of manga, but has...
Now that the Pew Research Center announced that Asian Americans are the "highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States," and since the buzz on the Democratic victory is the changing demographics of the American electorate, I was hoping that the national media would include our voice more in the coverage of the elections last night. Nope. Not...
[caption id="attachment_4699" align="alignleft" width="211"] This is me, being a typical American kid in the early '60s ...
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