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USPS issues new stamp celebrating Lunar New Year

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NEW YORK CITY — The U.S. Postal Service held a special event to commemorate the Year of the Tiger on Jan. 20 in New York. The event commemorates the third of 12 postage stamps in the Lunar New Year series. Special guests included Global Artistic Programs Vice President and Director of the Asia Society Museum […]

29th annual Mochi Tsuki on Bainbridge Island

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By Jessica Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY What started as a private celebration between friends and family on Bainbridge Island has grown into a widely-anticipated public festival that attracted over 1,000 participants this year. The highlight of the Jan. 7 event marking the 29th annual Mochi Tsuki was unquestionably the mochi making demonstration, led by […]

How to score points at your next family dinner

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By Sun Lee Chang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY You have survived the Thanksgiving holidays with friends and family around a dinner table. Now, it’s time to look forward to other holidays and first of the year celebrations. If your family is like mine, it is a blend of folks of various ethnicities and nationalities. I know […]

Fool’s Destiny (an eclipse) in stanza prose

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Editor’s note: This poem was sent to us by one of our readers, commemorating the solar eclipse that occurred Aug. 21. By Mac Crary SPECIAL TO NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Sky was clear, temperature in the mild to warm 70s, From Hing Hay Pagoda in Chinatown/International District, Seattle Found me in the perfect place on a […]

‘Longest Sushi Roll’ reenactment successful

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At the 38th Annual Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival held on April 21-23, people of all cultures flooded the Seattle Center Armory to learn about Japanese culture and to watch a reenactment of the 1997 attempt to break the world record for the longest sushi roll.