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Japanese dance tradition continues under master instructor

November 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Steven Mark HONOLULU (AP) — Watching a fan in the hands of Gertrude Yukie Tsutsumi is like watching a feather dance in the breeze. She holds it out like a mirror and lets it fall toward her forearm, catching it with a well-timed but casually graceful sweep of her wrist. “Let gravity take care […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, National News Tagged With: 2015, Bando Mikayoshi, East Coast, Far East, Gertrude Yukie Tsutsumi, Grand Kabuki Theatre, Honolulu International Center, Howard Asao, Jordan Ragasa, Kikunobu Dance Company, Learning Japanese, Linda Tatsuno, National Heritage Fellow, National Theater, Onoe Kikunobu, Onoe Kikunojo School, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 49 | November 28 - December 4, culture, language

Korla Pandit — Disguising identity: From Black to Indian

October 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Two hands hold a large censer.  A voice speaks of wisdom and rubies.  A deep, slightly scraggly voice.  The action fades-in to a man in a turban with a jewel mounted between his eyes.  Fixing his eyes upon the camera, Korla Pandit begins his act. And his act was […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2015, Andrew Hamlin, Carlos Santana, Far East, Hammond Organ, India, John Roland Redd, John Turner, Korla Pandit, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pandit Redd, TV, Vol 34 No 43 | October 17 - October 23, language

EDITORIAL: Celebrate your awesome, Asian heritage

May 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time for celebrations and festivities throughout the United States.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2010, 2014, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Asian Pacific Heritage Week, Census, Far East, Joint Resolution, National Archives Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, New York, Pacific Islands, President Jimmy Carter, Seattle Center, Southeast Asia, Spark Matsunaga, United States, Vol 33 No 19 | May 3 - May 9, War Relocation Authority, culture

Festivalgoers embrace Little Saigon

August 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hailey Way UW Newslab At the third annual Celebrate Little Saigon Festival on August 17, the sun shined, beer and Vietnamese coffee flowed, Vietnamese food was plentiful and the entertainment catered to people of all ages.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2013, Au Lac Vovinam, Celebrate Little Saigon, Chu Minh Tofu, Event Coordinator Quynh Pham, FLS, Far East, ID, International District, King Street Station, Little Saigon, Master Min Minh, Mill Creek Pho Mama, Seattle Streetcar, Uwajimaya, Vietnamese, Vol 32 No 35 | August 24 - August 30, Vovinam Lion Dance Team, hing hay park

Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery

May 18, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Cabinet Secretariat, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, China, Elaine Kurtenbach, Far East, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Imperial Army, Japan Communist Party, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Tomoko Kami, Vol 32 No 21 | May 18 - May 24, WWII, Yasukuni Shrine

Women take over: Northwest Asian Artists at SAM

November 15, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Deanna Duff Northwest Asian Weekly Women have taken over the Seattle Art Museum. Not through protests or demonstrations, but with a different type of exciting,

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, Dale Chihuly, Etsuko Ichikawa, Far East, Fine Arts, Jody Bento, Moon Shine, Municipal Tower, Newport Beach, Pilchuck Glass School, SAM, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle City Light, Third Avenue, Vol 31 No 47 | November 17 - November 23, Yuki Nakamura, Yuri Kinoshita

Filipino WWII vets still waiting for payments

January 21, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WAIPAHU, Hawaii (AP) — Gaudencio Sotio injured his left leg fighting to expel the Japanese military from the Philippines during World War II. Though Filipino, he was fighting under the command of the United States, which had colonized his homeland in the early 1900s.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Armed Forces, Art Caleda, Far East, Gaudencio Sotio, Last February, New Philippine Scouts, Norma Sotio, Philippines, Purple Heart, Though Filipino, United States, VA, Veterans Affairs, Vol 29 No 4 | January 23 - January 29, WAIPAHU, Willie Clark, japan

Blog: Donald Chan, not a typical Asian American

September 1, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I love to talk about Asian Americans doing unconventional things that defy stereotypes. David Chan is one of them. I met David Chan more than three decades ago when he owned a Chinese restaurant in Green Lake. What David Chan has done since then amazed normal people.  David Chan is now owner of World Class […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: American Safari Cruises, Asian Americans, Assunta Ng, CPA, Cindy Runger Balas, David Chan, Far East, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Green Lake, MB, Mongolia, Naadam Festival, Seattle Rotary Club, US, VP, World Class Travel

Letter: Gaza article doesn’t tell the whole story

January 15, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I’m not sure why Northwest Asian Weekly, as a periodical primarily serving
East Asians, felt the compelling need to wade into the Israeli–Palestinian
dispute …

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: Chinese, East Asians, European Jews, Far East, India, Israeli Palestinian, Letter Gaza, Middle East, Northwest Asian Weekly, Robert Badner, Seattle, South Asians, letter

Far East awkwardly meets Old West ‘Yellowfish’ review

January 8, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

John Keeble’s novel “Yellowfish” begins in the thick fog of San Francisco’s Chinatown. In such a fog, things disappear

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2009, Andrew Hamlin, Chinatown, Chinese, Far East, Ginarn Taam, John Keeble, Northwest Asian Weekly, Old West, San Francisco, Seattle, Vol 28 No 3 | January 10 - January 16, Washington Press, Wesley Erks

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