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Nikkeiview Blog
Gil Asakawa’s Japanese American Perspective on Pop Culture, Media and Politics
Nikkeiview is the brainchild of Japanese-American author,
editor, artist, journalist and Denver-area Asian American activist Gil Asakawa. Also a
former contributor to IMDiversity, Asakawa has been a leading online voice
representing contemporary Japanese-American culture and trans-national
Japanese pop culture through the columns distributed initially on his
Nikkeiview website.
In its 2.0 incarnation, Nikkeiview has continued to expand into the regularly updated
Nikkeiview Blog, where Asakawa
continue to post his timely, insightful columns and special sections such as
The Swallows Return (heritage series) in the midst of an expansive, all-things-APA
clearinghouse of relevant content feeds from across the Asian American landscape.
About Gil Asakawa
Asakawa is also author of the book,
Being Japanese American (Stone Bridge Press June 2004), and
co-author of The Toy Book, a history of baby-boom era toys (Knopf
1991). He has over 20 years of experience covering popular culture
and the arts at-large -- as a music critic, feature writer and editor of
a weekly arts and entertainment magazine. He has served as Content
Editor for Digital City Denver, TRIP.com, and ServiceMagic.com, and
Denver's TamTam.com. His writing has appeared in Denver Rocky
Mountain News, Rolling Stone, Pulse, and Creem, among many others. In
2003, Asakawa became Executive Producer for
DenverPost.com.
Asakawa also co-founded with Erin Yoshimura the "Asian American Empowerment" site,
visualizAsian.com.
Part-webinar hub, part-motivational resource, visualizAsian houses a growing series of
streaming
Empowerment Series interviews with influential Asian Americans from a variety of
sectors, such as actress Tamlyn Tomita, celebrity activist Yul Kwon, Minn State Senator Mee
Moua, former Cabinet Secretary Norman Mineta, and others.
Active in the Asian Pacific American community both in Colorado
and nationally, Asakawa has also contributed to the
Colorado Dragon Boat Festival,
served as a board member of the Aurora
Asian/Pacific Community Partnership, and as the Board Chairman for
the Pacific Citizen, the national
newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League.
A comprehensive archive of Asakawa's art and writings awaits you at
Nikkeiview.com.
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