Thu, Dec 9 2010
Also tagged: Anime, Asian American, ethnicity, Food, janm, Mia Monnier, mixed race, PERSONAL ESSAYS, RACE, SOUTHBAY, YELLOW POWER
By Mia Nakaji Monnier
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My mother is Japanese from Osaka; my father, American from a small town in western Oregon. There’s a word for people like me, used especially on the West Coast and popularized...
Thu, Sep 23 2010
Also tagged: ABC, ALEX O'LOUGHLIN, cbs, Dancing with the Stars, Daniel Dae Kim, DAVID HASSELHOFF, DONALD TRUMP, DWTS, entertainment, grace park, guy aoki, hachiko, hawaii, Hawaii Five-O, hollywood, Honolulu, IAN ANTHONY DALE, itns, JACK LORD, JEAN HIRATA, JEAN SMART, Maggie Q, MARGARET CHO, MARY MCNAMARA, NIKITA, SCOTT CAAN, television, THE APPRENTICE, THE HOFF, THOMAS SHIGEKUNI, VICKI SHIGEKUNI WONG
By GUY AOKI
(First published in The Rafu Shimpo on September 23, 2010.)
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Back in January when I read the pilot script for the new “Hawaii Five-O,” I knew it was going to become a series. The dramatics...
