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November 20, 2012

I'm not much of a churchgoer, but I've attended and volunteered at events at both the Denver Buddhist Temple, and the Simpson Methodist Church, which are both focal points of the local Japanese and Japanese American communities. A couple of weeks ago, I was part of the Mile High JACL's Fall Festival team, and spent a long day cooking (and...

November 20, 2012

[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...

November 7, 2012

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...

November 7, 2012

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...

November 7, 2012

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...