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Akane Suzuki in Super Lawyers magazine

July 7, 2014 By Admin

Garvey Schubert Barer lawyer Akane Suzuki of Seattle is on the cover of Super Lawyers magazine, Washington 2014 edition. The feature article profiles Suzuki coming to the United States from […]

“Above the China Sea” explores Okinawa then and now

June 27, 2014 By Admin

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Novelist and magazine writer Sarah Bird’s latest novel, “Above the East China Sea,” is a study of two young girls, separated by 60 years, […]

Now, world’s oldest people are Japanese

June 21, 2014 By Admin

By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) –The world’s oldest man, a retired chemist and parapsychologist, has died in New York City. Alexander Imich was 111. His niece says Imich died […]

For Japan, attack is key to World Cup revival

June 21, 2014 By Admin

By Joji Sakurai Associated Press ITU, Brazil (AP) – Shinji Kagawa had a tormented, sleepless night after Japan was beaten by Ivory Coast under a torrential Brazilian downpour. He knows […]

Nonstop to Hong Kong

June 20, 2014 By Admin

Delta Airlines celebrated the launch of its new nonstop service from Seattle to Hong Kong on June 16, with a ribbon-cutting, water cannon salute, and traditional dragon dance at its […]

CPTC Hosts study tour for Japanese students

June 16, 2014 By Admin

Medical laboratory students from Japan worked with Clover Park Technical College (CPTC) medical histology technician students on hands-on lab activities, toured the Lakewood campus, and visited Seattle as part of […]

Maryknoll sister Fallon to receive peacemaker award

June 9, 2014 By Admin

Maryknoll Sister Jean Fallon, a Seattle native who has worked many decades for justice and peace throughout the world, will receive the Sister Christine Mulready Peacemaker Award from Pax Christi […]

Lao defense chief, four others killed in plane crash

May 24, 2014 By Admin

By Thanyarat Doksone and Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) – A military plane carrying senior Lao government officials crashed May 17 in a wooded area as it approached an […]

More Asian offerings at SIFF

May 23, 2014 By Admin

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), running from May 15 through June 8, always brings fascinating Asian films to our town, many of them […]

Songwriter recalls lonely, idyllic childhood, & feeling ‘different’

May 2, 2014 By Admin

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The half Korean singer/songwriter Priscilla Ahn, coming to the Columbia City Theater on May 13, remembers her childhood in Pennsylvania as idyllic. “I started […]