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Asian Americans
Author_Gil Asakawa
Category=JBSL
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Hapa
Japanese American
Japanese culture
Japanese food
Japanese immigration
Nikkei
Product details
- ISBN 9781611720228
- Weight: 382g
- Dimensions: 190 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and holidays, it explores the painful history of immigration and WWII internment, with suggestions for connecting to your Japanese American community and passing on traditions across generations and into intermarried families. This revised edition has fresh interviews with Japanese Americans about their life experiences and explores contemporary Japanese pop culture like anime and J-pop, with information on traveling to visit your Japanese roots and lists of resources on the Web and social media. Gil Asakawa lives in Denver, Colorado, and is a nationally known journalist, editor, author, speaker, and blogger focusing on Japanese and Asian American issues.
Gil Asakawa a is a journalist, editor, author, speaker and blogger who covers Asian American, Japanese American and Japanese culture in blogs and social media. He writes regular columns for and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Pacific Citizen, the national newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League, and his columns are also published in the Nikkei Voice, the national newspaper of Japanese Canadians
