Nikkeiview

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Pop culture and politics from a Japanese American perspective

Nikkeiview is the brainchild of Japanese-American author, editor, artist and journalist Gil Asakawa.  Also long-time 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 through his Nikkeiview web site.

Asakawa is 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.

Also active in the Asian Pacific American community both in Colorado and nationally, he has 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 his art and writings awaits you at Nikkeiview.com.