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Diners scatter when man drops giant python in restaurant

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police say diners scattered when a man dropped a 13-foot yellow python on the floor of a sushi restaurant. Officer Drake Madison says Hiroshi Motohashi, 46, had argued with an employee and stormed out of Iroha Sushi of Tokyo in Studio City on March 20. Madison says a short […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Ruth Bayang, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Los Alamos Historical Museum team to research atomic bomb impact in Japan

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A group from Los Alamos, once the building site for an atomic bomb, is making an unprecedented trip this month to a country that was devastated by the weapon. Los Alamos Historical Museum representatives are traveling throughout Japan to gain that country’s perspective on the impact of nuclear warfare. Museum […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Atomic City, Bo Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Historic Preservation, Japan March, Japanese Americans, Judith Stauber, Los Alamos Historical Museum, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Trust, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican, Tokyo, United States, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Japanese American leaders visit Tokyo and Kobe

March 21, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell, and Darren T. Nakata, an attorney from Portland, Oregon, joined eight other Japanese American leaders from March 5 to 12 in a visit to Japan. The Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD) program, in its 16th year, is an opportunity for Japanese American leaders from across the U.S. to engage […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: Bruce Hollywood, Darren Nakata, Eric Hiraga, Eric Nakajima, Japanese American Leadership Delegation, Kiyo Matsumoto, Mark Yokoyama, Monte Del Mar Noda Mesa, Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell, Stan Masamitsu, Tasha Yorozu, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 12 | March 19 - March 25

Maid in Japan — Japanese rock group BAND-MAID to debut overseas at Sakura-Con

March 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

During an hour-long break, five tired-looking Japanese girls logged onto Skype because they had a press interview with Northwest Asian Weekly. …

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2013, 2016, Akane Hirose, Drummer Hirose, Guitarist Touno, Kanami Touno Photo, MISA, Miku Kobato, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pacific Northwest, SNS, Saiki Atsumi, Seattle, Taylor Allred, Thomas Fotheringham, Tokyo, United States, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, japan

Scholarship available for Japanese and American students studying abroad

March 4, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The U.S.–Japan Council (USJC) introduced the U.S.–Japan Council Toshizo Watanabe Endowed Scholarship on Feb. 18. The scholarship is for undergraduate American and Japanese students in a term or a year-long study abroad program in the United States or Japan. During the inaugural program year (2016–2017), the scholarship will be used to assist Japanese students studying […]

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2008, 2013, 2016, Japan Council Toshizo Watanabe, Tokyo, Toshizo Watanabe Foundation, USJC, United States, Vol 35 No 10 | March 5 - March 11

Angelina Jolie’s film ‘Unbroken’ finally opens in Japan more than a year later

February 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” opened Feb. 6, more than a year after the rest of the world, in Japan, where the main character endures as a prisoner of war and where some have called for a boycott of the movie. There were concerns that right-wing extremists may try […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Angelina Jolie, Associated Press, Berlin Olympics, David Bowie, Imperial Army, Katsuyuki Miyata, Korea, Louis Zamperini, Merry Christmas, Nagano Olympics, Nagisa Oshima, POW, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, japan, social media

NWAW’s January must-reads — Mysterious murders, a petite pachyderm, and not-so-hardboiled detectives

January 8, 2016 By Samantha Pak

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly One of my favorite things to do when the weather is cold is curl up under a blanket with a good mystery. The following are my January must-read picks: “Grave on Grand Avenue” By Naomi Hirahara Berkley, 2015 LAPD bicycle cop Ellie Rush is back and on the case […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2014, 2015, 2016, Amazon Digital Services, Chinese, Ellie Rush, Inspector Ashwin Chopra, Inspector Shig Sato, Jun Fujimori, LAPD, Mumbai, NWAW, Nay Pram, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pontiac Skylark, Samantha Pak, Ses Fujimori, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 2 | January 9 - January 15

South Korea, Japan settle deal on wartime Korean sex slaves

January 3, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on Monday reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, an important breakthrough for the Northeast Asian powers. The deal, which […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2016, Associated Press, China, Foster Klug, Japanese Embassy, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Korean Peninsula, Mari Yamaguchi, North Korea, Northeast Asian, SEOUL, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Vol 35 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

Most clicked 2015 stories – (According to Google Analytics!)

December 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

What did Northwest Asian Weekly website readers find the most intriguing to click on this year? Here is the list of the top 15 in 2015, based on Google Analytics. 1. Manny Pacquiao fights back at Mayweather’s “reckless” jabs By Greg Beacham Pacquiao has rarely skimped on excitement during his remarkable career as an eight-division […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2015, 2016, Beat Bobby Flay, Chinatown International District, Donnie Chin, Dragon Fest, Eddie Huang Perfectly, Filipino American History Month, Imperial Lanes, Japanese Americans, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Luchang Wang, Lunar New Year, Pacific Islanders, Recognized White House, Sushi Kappo Tamura, Taichi Kitamura, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 53 | December 26 - January 1, Yours Mallika Exploring, blog

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

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