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Japanese Americans in Hawaii Work to Reinstate Healthcare Benefits for Micronesians

Members of the Honolulu chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League are seeking redress for the Micronesian community to address healthcare inequities. The Honolulu JACL chapter is asking for the organization’s national support to restore medical benefits to the Micronesian community, an issue that is particularly controversial in Hawaii...Read More

Japan’s Uncomfortable History of Comfort Women Hits Home

Located on a grassy strip of land between the public library building and a chain link fence, it is difficult to believe that the small plaque memorializing the “comfort women” abducted by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II could be the cause of increasing controversy in the international community. Yet the unassuming plaque...Read More

On 30th Anniversary of Vincent Chin’s Murder His Legacy Forges On

Thirty years ago, a young Chinese American man was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat in Detroit, Michigan. Swinging the bat, a laid-off automobile employee and his stepson attributed the popularity of Japanese cars to layoffs in the American auto industry. Young Vincent Chin, who was mistaken for being Japanese by the assailants, drew his las...Read More

The Humble Top Chef

Judges in the final round of “Top Chef: Texas” described one of Paul Qui’s final plates as “the humble dish that excelled from the humble chef who excels.” Another judge described Qui’s dessert, which “took a lot of risk,” as: “a thrill to eat with every bite.” His risky dessert, which con...Read More

Bao Down to the Huang Brothers, Co-Owners of New York’s Baohaus

It was Christmastime of 2009 when Eddie Huang, 30, visited his family in Florida for the holidays and told his youngest brother Evan, 24, about his plans to open a restaurant. Evan, like the rest of the Huang family, was negative about Eddie’s pursuit to open his own restaurant. Opening the first Baohaus in New ...Read More