How Japan Can Reverse Its Decline

Today the Nikkei 225 index closed at 9,161.68. The same ...

Recognizing China As America's Growth Engine

Americans are fretting about a 9.5% jobless rate that isn't ...

Mao's Last Dancer Satisfies Asian American Audiences

The movie version of Mao's Last Dancer deserves our admiration ...

Reflections on Summer in Lake Tahoe

When I was going to school Lake Tahoe was synonymous ...

Rutgers's Shameful Asian American Duo

Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his ...

The Dangers of Scape- goating China's Yuan

Leaders of distressed economies like to direct rhetoric at a ...

North Korea, the Ultimate Reality Show

North Korea looms larger in humanity's consciousness than all but ...

Grading Hawaii Five-O

If there is an Asian American home on American network ...

Racism, Democratic Reforms and China's Reverse Brain Drain

The world has been clamoring for China to adopt democratic ...

Asian Killers, American Causes

The latest is Jiverly Wong shooting 13 in Binghamton, New ...

Identity, The Ultimate Luxury

Identity is the Asian American Rorschach inkblot test. Depending on ...

Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street

There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food ...

Experiencing The Generational Rift Firsthand

I recently took up a temp job as a favor ...

Obama on Legalizing Hookers, Drugs, Gambling

A young man at a recent Obama town hall meeting ...

Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song

In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember ...

Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show

It looks like I was a little early to jump ...

Remembering Christmas After a Breakup

Breakups hurt. It’s been well-documented. And sadly, all the clichés ...

South Philly High Back In The News

Okay, not the mainstream news, but the race-aware and Asian-American ...

Tiger's Hard Rocky Road to Redemption

As long as your heart is beating the road to ...

The Asian-American and Music

I thought I would write a little bit about my ...

France Nuyen and Vietnamese Identity

Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage

How many times have I vowed never to return to ...

California's Asian-Majority Generation

In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian ...

Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab

A restaurant that my people have been raving about the ...

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. ...

End of the Pete Carroll Era

What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a ...

American Democracy and the Tyranny of Old Prejudices

The Italianization of Japan

There was a time when all things Japanese was money. ...

Ridiculous YouTube Video Draws Ire of Asian American Bloggers

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up ...

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership ...

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap ...

Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life

Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. ...

The Elusive Logic of Sleep

Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. ...

Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia

We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of ...

Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood

They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and ...

The Irrationality of Scapegoating China

In tough times politicians look for scapegoats. Recently they've zeroed ...

Obama's Biggest Challenge: Surviving Better Times

Barack Obama's presidency is a child of some of the ...

Insomnia and Missing Dreams

I caught a bad cold over the weekend and slept ...

Hypocrites, Grandstanders Pose As Tiger Tamers

No question that Tiger's recent life makes for some of ...