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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The Little Exile is a terrific addition to the JA reading list

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2017年10月25日

The historical story of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II is still not well-known in mainstream American culture and literature. When it comes to books, there are only a handful of books that are based on Japanese Americans’ wartime experience. After the groundbreaking, angry No-No Boy…

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The Legacy of the Sansei from a “Ni-hansei” perspective

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  • 2017年10月5日

When I was a kid, I used to tell people who asked what generation I was, that I was “Ni-hansei,” or second-and-a-half. That’s because although my father was a Nisei born in Hawaii (technically a Kibei because his family moved to Japan in 1940 and he was stuck there during the war, but that&rsquo…

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NHK is Your Direct Line to Japanese News

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  • 2017年8月24日

The recent 72nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima went by quietly on American news (in part because there’s just so much news to cover exploding out of our own White House). So on August 6, I turned to the one place I knew would give the commemoration of the bombing its due coverage: NHK World, Japan&…

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George Takei is the Energizer Bunny of the JA community

  • ギル・アサカワ
  • 2017年8月7日

Like many people, and especially many Japanese Americans, I’m a big fan of George Takei. I’ve followed his career since I first saw him in the role of Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu in the original 1960s television Star Trek series and as he reprised the character in subsequent Star Trek movies in the 1970s a…

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Read Who, How and Why Japanese Settled in Colorado

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  • 2017年1月31日

Most books about Japanese Americans focus on the West Coast because that’s where Japanese first arrived and settled on the US mainland.

So few well-known books tell the stories of Japanese as they crossed the country and decided to live in the mountains, or the midwest, or the northeast or the south. Yet I…

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