When I first started the Nikkei View as a weekly column in 1998 that ran in a Denver Japanese community newspaper (now gone), I posted the columns on my nikkeiview.com website. I wrote as a way of telling the world how I saw pop culture and politics through my Japanese American experience. In the decade

... heard me rite, azn music. Now Asia is a culture filled place, way more than the rest of the world and the world ... rock songs! asia is filled with rock and pop music, not as comparable as MJ but its still damn good ... win my 2 favorite bands are Flow and Asian Kung Fu Generation. I already showed you Flow ... openings and Eureka 7’s opening too Asian Kung Fu Generation is probably the most famous azn ...

... or a Londoner or anything. It's just one of the few proudly South-Asian things that feels neither appropriated and defensive (local Indian-derived youth culture) or inaccessibly exotic (Trilok Gurtu, Vanraj Bhatia, truly south-asian people.) That ... and Sri Lankan existance probably helps, as does her melting of agitation and pop, the personal and the political, strife and good living.

... and Japanese people are martial arts experts with Asian actors kicking butts  or sword-fighting ... as mayhem will ensue. Though these images are shown in American pop culture, the Americans themselves do not blatantly express them personally right ... Filipino egg delicacy), and nurses. However, American pop culture says a different thing. Does it? Anyway, can you think another typical Filipino image ...

... next to me were talking about some party or event and what music they would use and I started to think about the music I like and thought: “How come they never play J-Pop or something along those lines in places like this”. As soon as I had finished the thought, they started playing Secret by Ayumi Hamasaki. I must have looked pretty shocked when I looked up from my huge sushi plate ...

... was sponsored by Adam Robezzoli, proprietor of game culture shop Attract Mode, and was intended to spread ... Giant Robot. I saw ties between what he had done with Asian pop culture and what I was trying to do with videogame culture. He was cool with it and we decided to do an art ... future of Attract Mode? I describe it as a videogame culture shop. It's about doing cool projects like art ...