ギル・アサカワ

(Gil Asakawa)

ポップカルチャーや政治についてアジア系・日系アメリカ人の視点でブログ（www.nikkeiview.com）を書いている。また、パートナーと共に www.visualizAsian.com を立ち上げ、著名なアジア系・太平洋諸島系アメリカ人へのライブインタビューを行っている。著書には『Being Japanese American』（2004年ストーンブリッジプレス）があり、JACL理事としてパシフィック・シチズン紙の編集委員長を７年間務めた。

（2009年11月 更新）

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Traveling to Japan With a Loved One Who Has Dementia

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2018年8月7日

My mom has suffered from worsening dementia for years, and when my brothers and I saw increasing signs that she would no longer be able to live by herself, we moved her into a Memory Care Center nearby.

Two years ago, my wife, Erin, and I took the last of several trips to Japan with my mom. She has a brother in …

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When Family Caregiving Isn’t Enough for Your Parent

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2018年5月30日

My brother Glenn and I moved my mom from her house in Lafayette, Colorado, last month to live in a memory care facility nearby. She’s had dementia for a long time, and it’s gotten noticeably worse for the past couple of years. I’m still sorting through how it felt to take her out of her house, a…

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Rock and Roll and Ramen: Lessons in Appropriation vs Appreciation

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2018年4月27日

My friends (and anyone who follows my social media “food porn” photos) know that I’m a snob about Japanese food. I have strong opinions on the best tonkatsu fried pork cutlets, real vs. fake sushi and Japanese restaurants staffed by non-Japanese who can’t pronounce menu items correctly. An…

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A Salute to Our JA Veterans

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2017年11月30日

When the word “veterans” comes up in conversations within the Japanese American community, I suspect most of the time the image the word conjures is a picture of Nisei soldiers of the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team fighting during World War II.

More and more people might think of the …

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On writing about the JA community

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2017年11月9日

I started my writing career as a music critic and became a journalist with jobs at various mainstream media newspapers and later, websites, and wasn’t much concerned with covering the Japanese, Japanese American, or Asian American Pacific Islander communities or issues.

I became curious about my roots wh…

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