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New Capitol Hill restaurant

April 23, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

New Capitol Hill restaurant

A brand-new Japanese Izakaya restaurant opened in Capitol Hill on April 15. Junkichi on 224 Broadway East features a Japanese grilling tradition in which skewers are slow-grilled over intensely hot, high carbon charcoal to cook food. The restaurant also features an AI robot, Sota, that interacts with guests at the table. Junkichi is owned and […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2018, JUNKICHI, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

New APDC chair

April 23, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

New APDC chair

Janice Deguchi is excited to take over the reins as chair of the Asian Pacific Directors Coalition (APDC). Deguchi serves as the Executive Director of Community for Youth, a mentoring program serving high school students in South Seattle. She brings over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit executive leader. Previously, Deguchi was COO of […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2018, Janice Deguchi, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

2018 C.A.C.A. Seattle annual banquet

April 23, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

2018 C.A.C.A. Seattle annual banquet

The Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) will hold its annual banquet on May 20 at China Harbor restaurant. The event, titled “Celebrating unity and fighting for equality,” will honor Harry Chan, owner of Tai Tung restaurant, Sam Wan, former CEO of Kin On, and Jeff Lew, who started a movement last year to eliminate school […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

Delta-Korean Air partnership

April 23, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Delta-Korean Air partnership

Delta Air Lines has been operating out of a brand-new, world-class terminal at Incheon International Airport (ICN) since January. The new 1,260,000-square-foot Terminal 2, designed to handle more than 18 million customers per year, will be used by Delta, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM customers. “With our expanded partnership with Korean Air and the new […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2018, Delta Airlines, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

ICHS to honor transforming leaders

April 23, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

ICHS to honor transforming leaders

International Community Health Services (ICHS) announced five recipients of its 2018 Sapphire Leadership Award, to be given at the 2018 Bloom Gala on May 5. ICHS board members Janyce Ko Fisher and Hiroshi Nakano are among the recipients, as well as former ICHS Executive Director Dorothy Wong, ICHS physician Dr. Alan Chun, and ICHS CFO […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

Lifelike robots made in Hong Kong meant to win over humans

April 21, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Lifelike robots made in Hong Kong meant to win over humans

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — David Hanson envisions a future in which AI-powered robots evolve to become “super-intelligent genius machines’’ that might help solve some of mankind’s most challenging problems. If only it were as simple as that. The Texas-born former sculptor at Walt Disney Imagineering and his Hong Kong-based […]

Filed Under: Business, Technology Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

Japanese man pursues construction dream in South Dakota

April 21, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Japanese man pursues construction dream in South Dakota

By TANYA MANUS Rapid City Journal RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Lots of people dream about working in the movie industry. Kaz Kunishige spent 20 years in movie theaters dreaming about construction. Today, Kunishige owns Handcrafted Log Homes in Box Elder. His company builds about two custom houses a year in the Black Hills and […]

Filed Under: Business, National News Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

PICTORIAL: Congressional Gold Medal Awards ceremony

April 20, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

PICTORIAL: Congressional Gold Medal Awards ceremony

U.S. Army Retired Brigadier General Oscar Hilman and Joint Base Lewis-McChord commanding officers awarded over 130 Congressional Gold Medal replicas to family members of deceased Filipino veterans who fought in World War II. Over 500 people attended the awards ceremony on April 15 in Renton. Photos by Dean Wong & Joseph Guanlao

Filed Under: Features, Community News, Feature stories, Pictorials Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

Protesters demand resignation of DOL director

April 20, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

Protesters demand resignation of DOL director

By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY SEATTLE — Several community organizations banded together on April 17 to demand the resignation or removal of Pat Kohler as director of the Washington Department of Licensing (DOL). Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) joined the Latino Civic Alliance for the downtown Seattle protest — one of eight across the […]

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

Forward Rui Hachimura will return to Gonzaga next season

April 20, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Forward Rui Hachimura has decided to return for his junior year at Gonzaga. Hachimura said in a news release on April 8 that he was looking forward to improving his game. The 6-foot-8 native of Japan was one of Gonzaga’s most exciting players this season, despite coming off the bench, and […]

Filed Under: Community News, Sports Tagged With: 2018, VOL 37 NO 17 | APRIL 21 - APRIL 27

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