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Much love for the Panama Hotel — Seattle has its national treasure

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By Peggy Chapman Northwest Asian Weekly Oregon has the Willamette Falls Navigation and Locks, and now Seattle has its beloved Panama Hotel as the city’s first National Treasure. There are […]

‘Star Trek’ and social media hero George Takei is 2015 Tomodachi Award winner

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By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly Tomodachi is a Japanese word meaning friend. “Star Trek” actor and gay rights advocate George Takei is the newest friend of the Japanese Cultural […]

Climbing Heart Mountain — Documenting Japanese internment

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The latest film to detail the Japanese-American experience in relocation camps during World War II, David Ono’s “The Legacy Of Heart Mountain” has a […]

“The Five Essentials: Arts and the movement for social justice” — Keynote Speech by Ron Chew at National Guild for Community Arts Education Conference

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By Ron Chew For Northwest Asian Weekly The arts can be an instrument for transforming individual lives, restoring communities, and remaking our society into a more tolerant and inclusive place […]

COMMENTARY: Asian American civil rights group calls on retailers to pull ads targeting Alibaba

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The Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which includes retailers such as Target, J.C. Penney, Walmart and Best

Sakata’s play about Gordon Hirabayashi, ‘Hold These Truths’

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By Laura Ohata Northwest Asian Weekly Homecoming for a Civil Rights icon Gordon Hirabayashi Imagine that it is April in 1942, and the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor only four […]

Graduation heals Calif. man’s World War II internment wounds

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By Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, California (AP) – A California man who missed his 1942 high school graduation because he was locked in an internment camp for Japanese Americans finally […]