THE APPA Newsletter
Dec 4, 2007
See This Weekend
MISSION STATEMENT:
Promote full utilization
of the capabilities of the Enterprise's employees and champion the betterment
of the company and community. Promote interest in Asian Pacific issues and
culture and act as a bridge to all groups within our community. (substitute in
your Enterprise and company, etcÉ)
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ed. by Douglas Ikemi
(dkikemi@pacbell.net)
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Back issues of the
newsletter for all of 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 are available at http://www.ikemi.info/APPA/newsletters.html
if you want to look up some past event. The website www.apa-pro.org
no longer exists. This newsletter was originally published under the auspices
of the Hughes Asian Pacific Professional Association (no longer extant). It
currently has no affiliation and is available to anyone who is interested in
downloading it.
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Please send in
information on cultural events and news items to dkikemi@pacbell.net or dkikemi@mac.com . Thanks to those who have.
Long range calendar
items:
Chinatown Farmers Market
EVERY THURSDAY FROM 2-6PM, the Chinatown Farmers' Market takes place at Hill
& Alpine bringing fresh fruits and produce by California Farmers to the
Chinatown Community. FRIED BANANA, FRIED YAM, HAWAIIAN CHICKEN. We invite you
to come and experience the Chinatown Farmers' Market. Free parking with
purchase.
The Downtown Arts
District/Little Tokyo Farmers' Market
Weller Court 2nd & San
Pedro in
Little Tokyo Summer Hours
10-3pm
Features fresh produce,
Hawaiian Chicken, more food gifts...and live jazz band.
Tuesdays from 10 a.m.- 3
p.m.
The weekly market is held
every Tuesday from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m year round, rain or shine.
Sponsored by LARABA
the market will include farm-fresh produce, Asian produce, organic produce,
eggs, seafood, cheese, olives, olive oils, flowers, plants, bread and prepared
foods and more.
Hawaiian Chicken, Roasted
corn on the cobb
Local businesses
interested in having a prepared food booth at the market or individuals
interested in volunteering at this non-profit event, please contact Susan
Hutchinson at 323-660-8660 for more information
Los Angeles Public
Library Celebrates our DiverseCity
http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/diversecity/index.html
GIANT ROBOT BIENNALE: 50 Issues
November
3, 2007 - January 13, 2008
In
celebration of its 50th issue and in collaboration with the Museum, the
pop-culture magazine Giant Robot has assembled works by ten cutting-edge artists from around the
country. Janm.org
October
12, 2007 - January 21, 2008
Rank and Style :
Power Dressing in Imperial China
For
generations ChinaÕs rulers wore emblems on their robes that identified their
place in a complex system of rank and privilege. This exhibition explores how
this imperial hierarchy was maintained through the bestowing and wearing of
exquisitely woven and embroidered Ôrank badges,Õ as they have become known in
the West.
Identity and status, so
carefully crafted and preserved among ChinaÕs elite, were expressed primarily
through garments and their decoration, making them virtually a second skin Ð so
intimately connected to oneÕs person that even in death wearing the appropriate
badge assured a continuation of earthly status. The exhibition is rich in a
wide variety of rank and festival badges worn by the emperor, members of the
imperial household, and civil and military officials.
Rank and Style: Power
Dressing in Imperial China presents for the first time in the United States
selections from the Chris Hall Collection of Hong Kong. These rare and
exquisite rank badges date from 1500 to the mid-19th century, with many from
the Ming Dynasty (1368Ð1644). Numerous badges feature woven or embroidered
mythical creatures such as the dragon and phoenix, while others depict rabbits,
cranes and tigers. Additional pieces in the exhibition are drawn from the
collections of the Pacific Asia Museum and local collections.
Dale Gluckman, Guest
Curator
This exhibition will be
part of the fourth city-wide collaboration of PasadenaÕs cultural institutions,
ÒArt and Ideas.Ó
Related Events
Saturday,
November 3, 2007, 1-4pm,
Free Family
Festival
In
celebration of the new exhibition Rank and Style:
Power Dressing in Imperial China, this all-ages festival will focus
on activities related to Imperial Chinese culture and the symbolism of dragons,
birds, lions, tigers, flowers and lanterns in works of art. Free.
46 North
Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena California 91101 [Google Map]
Hours: Wed Ð Sun: 10:00am-6:00pm
December 15, 2007
Hiroshima in Concert
Join us for our
annual holiday concert! Celebrate the holiday season with family and friends
young and old. The (nearly acoustic) concert features cuts from ÒLittle TokyoÓ
the latest Hiroshima CD and their critically acclaimed ÒSpirit of the SeasonÓ
and ÒObonÓ CDs all on Heads Up International Records. Special guest artists
will join the band to make this annual concert a special treat for our
community. Check out our website at www.hiroshimamusic.com
The artists will be available to autograph CD after the concert.
Saturday, 7:30pm
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre $35 orchestra, $30 balcony $32, $27 JACCC Members $33, $28 Groups
(10+), Seniors & Students
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center
244 South San Pedro
Street, Suite 505 (between 2nd and 3rd Streets)
Los Angeles (Little
Tokyo), CA 90012
(213) 628-2725
December 16, 2007
Masterpiece of Buddhist Art: The Works of Korean Living Treasure Master Jin
Hyung Lee
Silk Roads Gallery, along
with the Korea Sah International Temple is hosting an exhibit of the works of
Master Jin Hyung Lee, a Korean National Treasure from October 20th to December
16th at Silks Roads Design Gallery on La Brea Avenue.
It is the first tine
Master LeeÕs works will be exhibited outside of Asia. Entitled Masterpiece
of Buddhist Art: The Works of Korean Living Treasure Master Jin Hyung Lee, the exhibit will feature over 30 bronze and wood
statues gilded in 24 carat gold of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and monks, as well as
ritual implements, including a life size seated triad of Shakyamuni Buddha flanked
by Manjushri and Samantabhadra. All the work in the exhibition will be
available for purchase.
Master Jin Hyung LeeÕs
works are in over 60 Buddhist Temples throughout Korea, including the Song
Kwong Sah (one of the ÔThree JewelsÕ of Korean Buddhist Temples and a National
Treasure) and Beob Ryun Sah.Ó The Korea Sah International Temple in Koreatown,
Los Angeles has a remarkable collection of Master LeeÕs work including an
unusual relief of ÔThe Thousand BuddhasÕ behind the main alter.
Silk Roads encourages
educational or other interested groups to contact them to set up individual
tours and lectures on Master LeeÕs work and Korean Buddhist Art in the Gallery
and at the Korea Sah International Buddhist Temple during the exhibition dates.
Sunday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Silk Roads Gallery
145 N. La Brea Ave Suite C
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Cost: Free
For more information
please contact
Cari Markell Tel: (323)
857-5588
Sunday, December 16,
2007
Shibori Workshop with
Yoshiko Akane
1PM
In the last of the
gift-making workshops, learn the ancient Japanese art of colorful shibori
dyeing with Yoshiko Akane. $10 National Museum Members; $15 non-members,
includes materials and Museum admission.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles,
California 90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
www.janm.org
Thursday, December 27,
2007 10am & 3pm
Friday December 28,
2007 10am & 3pm 2008
Year of the Rat
ChildrenÕs Oshogatsu Workshops
Celebrate the coming of
2008 during this one-day workshop learning about the symbols and traditions
surrounding Oshogatsu or Japanese New Year. Learn about this special holiday
celebration through hands-on craft activities and workshops as well as
demonstrations led by local artists and community members. Workshops are
designed for children ages 7 to 12.
Registration is limited
to 30 participants per session, pre-registration is required and will be filled
on a first come first served basis. For more information or to register, please
contact Jessie Kikuchi at (213) 628-2725 ext. 142 or jkikuchi@jaccc.org.
JACCC, Second Floor
Conference Rooms $30 per child $25 JACCC Members
Saturday, December
29, 2007
Little Tokyo Walking
Tour
10:15AM
Relive history and learn
about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents on this historic
walking tour. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes
Museum admission. Reservations along with comfortable walking shoes and clothes
are recommended. Weather permitting.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles,
California 90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
www.janm.org
*NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
Chinese American Museum, El
Pueblo de Los Angeles, www.camla.org
Jake Lee exhibit opens.
THE CHINESE AMERICAN
MUSEUM AND AUTO CLUB GIVE LEGENDARY CALIFORNIA PAINTER DAY IN SUNSHINE
California Artist Fused
Chinese Heritage with California Scenes
(LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31,
2007) ÐÑ Jake Lee, a highly respected, yet quiet and enigmatic painter who
influenced numerous other artists in California for decades, has not been the
subject of a major retrospective, until now. ÒSunshine & Shadow: In Search
of Jake LeeÓ an exhibition hosted by the Chinese American Museum of Los
Angeles, co-produced with the Automobile Club of Southern California, marks the
first comprehensive and critical review of a prolific artist who embraced
California landscapes and city scenes through watercolor.
Showcasing at the Chinese
American Museum (CAM) from Dec. 1 to April 13, 2008, ÒSunshine & ShadowÓ
will highlight more than 60 watercolors, including eight from the Auto ClubÕs
WESTWAYS cover art collection. The collection will also illustrate with photos
and letters more details of the artistÕs professional career and his family
life, which he kept distinctly separate for many years.
ÒJake Lee is
among the most well known and prolific watercolor artists of the 20th Century,
yet we found very little published about his personal life as we researched
this exhibition,Ó said Dr. Pauline Wong, Executive Director of the museum. ÒWe
had no problem locating his art and his influence Ð it lives in collections
throughout the state and in the hearts of his many students. But it was more
challenging to find the man. We believe this exhibition and catalogue will
result in new appreciation for his artistic production and his influence.Ó
*SPRING 2008
Corky Lee exhibit opens.
JANUARY 2008
Sunday, January 6 2008,
1pm
KOTOHAJIME
First Performance of the
New Year: Hatsu Mukashi (FirstÐLong Ago) Created by Hirokazu Kosaka
Both solemn and festive,
the closing of an old year and the beginning of a new one are viewed as a time
of reflection as well as festivity. Kotohajime is the JACCCÕs annual
celebration featuring both traditional and contemporary performances in
observance of the New Year. This yearÕs Kotohajime celebration includes a
unique collaborative performance arranged and led by Hirokazu Kosaka. Viewing
Los Angeles as the contemporary Silk Road, where the routes for commerce,
culture, language, and art intermingle as they migrate, the performance
combines an eclectic blend of traditional and contemporary arts.
JACCC Plaza Free
Admission
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center
244 South San Pedro
Street, Suite 505
(between 2nd and 3rd
Streets)
Los Angeles (Little
Tokyo), CA 90012
(213) 628-2725
January 6 Ð February 24,
2008
10TH Annual SHIKISHI
Exhibition
One of the most
interesting and popular annual exhibitions in Los Angeles returns to mark its
10th year. The exhibition is open to anyone with a creative spark who looks to
express their hopes for the New Year through the shikishi. This year's exhibit
continues to showcase shikishi signed by dignitaries, and will feature art work
based on this yearÕs theme Hatsu Mukashi (FirstÐLong Ago) as well as references
to the Year of the Rat, the animal which sits atop the 12-year Lunar Calendar
cycle.
George J. Doizaki
Gallery/ North Gallery Free Admission
George J. Doizaki Gallery
Hours Tuesday Ð Friday 12noon to 5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am to 4pm Closed
Mondays and holidays
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center
244 South San Pedro
Street, Suite 505
(between 2nd and 3rd
Streets)
Los Angeles (Little
Tokyo), CA 90012
(213) 628-2725
Sunday, January 06,
2008
Oshogatsu Family
Festival & First Sundays are For Families
11AM-4PM
FREE, no reservations
required
Ring in the New Year
with fun arts and crafts, whimsical tales, and exciting performances at the
National Museum. This year's festival will feature a special activity created
by Giant Robot.
Visitors will also
receive free admission to MOCA's ©Murakami exhibition as a part of their
"First Sundays are For Families" program by checking in at the
"For Families" table (1:00 Ð 3:30 PM).
In conjunction with the
exhibition Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Saturday, January 12,
2008
Giant Robot Artist
Roundtable
Free with museum
admission 2PM
Join the artists of
Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues for a roundtable discussion moderated by Eric
Nakamura. Light refreshments will be served following the program.
This event is
sponsored by Imprint Culture Lab.
In conjunction with the
exhibition Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Sunday, January 13,
2008
Teens of Contemporary
Art (TOCA)
3-5PM
FREE, no reservations
required
Teens are invited to
explore art and materials at MOCA's ©Murakami and the National Museum's Giant
Robot Biennale: 50 Issues, then try their own hand at painting and
silkscreening.
For additional
information on TOCA, call 213.633.5310 or email dgray@moca.org.
In conjunction with
the exhibition Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues and ©Murakami at MOCA's Geffen
Contemporary.
In conjunction with the
exhibition Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Sunday January 27, 2008
9am
4th Annual Kyokushin
Karate U.S. Weight Category Karate Championship Competitors from ten countries
come to represent the diversity and spirit of Kyokushin Karate. Competition
opens with (Kata) to Knockdown Fighting (Kumite) leading up to the all weight
category finals.
For information contact
Kyokushin Karate L.A Branch at www.kyokushinkaratela.com
or call (877) 662-7947
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre $40 VIP, $20 General Admission
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center
244 South San Pedro
Street, Suite 505
(between 2nd and 3rd
Streets)
Los Angeles (Little
Tokyo), CA 90012
(213) 628-2725
See LA
Library DiverseCity events at http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/diversecity/index.html
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This Weekend (and earlier/later)
December 08, 2007 Islam
Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco (Day 3)
A conference considering
the work in Morocco of eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006).
Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA, and Lahouari Addi, University of Lyon.
Islam Re-Observed:
Clifford Geertz in Morocco
December 6-9, 2007
Participants include
American and North African scholars residing in the US, Europe, and North
Africa who will present papers on Geertz's contributions to sociocultural
theory in relation to Islam, on ideas of the sacred, colonialism and economic
development, Moroccan cityscapes and the suq of Sefrou, among other topics.
Sefrou, Morocco Observed:
The Photographs of Paul Hyman
November 28-December 16,
2007
Complementing the
conference, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History will exhibit images of
Sefrou, Morocco by photographer Paul Hyman.
Saturday, 9:00 AM - 6:00
PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural
History
Leinart Auditorium
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free and Open to the
Public
For more information
please contact
Peter Szanton, Center for
Near Eastern Studies
Tel: 310-825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes
Posted by: Center for Near Eastern Studies
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Center for Near Eastern Studies,
Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
Department of History, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA College of Letters and Science, Anthropology, Moroccan
American Cultural Center, American
Moroccan Institute, The
Wenner-Gren Foundation
December 09, 2007 Islam
Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco (Day 4)A conference considering the
work in Morocco of eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006).
Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA, and Lahouari Addi, University of Lyon.
December 6-9, 2007 Islam
Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco
Participants include
American and North African scholars residing in the US, Europe, and North
Africa who will present papers on Geertz's contributions to sociocultural
theory in relation to Islam, on ideas of the sacred, colonialism and economic
development, Moroccan cityscapes and the suq of Sefrou, among other topics.
Sefrou, Morocco Observed:
The Photographs of Paul Hyman
November 28-December 16,
2007
Complementing the
conference, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History will exhibit images of
Sefrou, Morocco by photographer Paul Hyman.
Sunday, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural
History
Leinart Auditorium
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free and Open to the
Public
For more information
please contact
Peter Szanton, Center for
Near Eastern StudiesTel: 310-825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes
December 08, 2007
Symposium: Imperial Japan and Colonial Sensibility: Affect, Object, Embodiment
(Day 2)
Organized by Mariko
Tamanoi and Jordan Sand
This symposium assembles
scholars from a range of disciplines to consider the Japanese colonial empire
and its aftermath from the perspective of affects and aesthetics, fantasies and
reminiscences, manifestations in material culture, embodied representations,
and self-representations. Participants will examine a range of social positions
and relationships shaped by Japanese imperialism, including Japanese colonists
and non-Japanese subjects in the colonies, migrants within the empire, migrants
to the metropole, returnees from the colonies after the war, and subjects of
the postcolonial nation-states. By focusing on emotions and the senses, this
collaboration aims to expose hitherto overlooked aspects of life under
colonialism. At the same time, the symposium will explore the ways that
everyday language and private experience articulated colonial relations of
power.
"Imperial Japan and
Colonial Sensibility" was a project originally conceived by Miriam
Silverberg, Professor of Japanese History at UCLA. Following MiriamÕs
retirement in 2005, MiriamÕs students, colleagues and friends decided to carry
it forward in order to honor her enormous contributions to the study of modern
Japan as both a teacher and a scholar.
Miriam received her M.A.
at Georgetown University in 1979 and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
in 1984. She studied in Japan with the political historian and philosopher
Fujita Sh™z™ and worked with numerous other scholars in Japan, including
literary scholar Maeda Ai and womenÕs historian Fujime Yuki. She joined
the UCLA faculty in 1990. In her pathbreaking study of poet and cultural
critic Nakano Shigeharu, Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano
Shigeharu, Miriam revealed to the
field an entirely new face to Japanese modernity and new tools for analyzing
it. Changing Song received the
1990 John King Fairbank Prize in East Asian History. A Japanese
translation was published 1998. In this work, Miriam established the
combination of theoretical depth and materialist grounding that would
characterize all of her subsequent work. Changing Song was followed by articles on feminist writer Sata
Ineko, on ethnographic approaches to urban modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, on
Japanese film, advertising and media culture during the Asia-Pacific War, and
on numerous other subjects. Her essays have been without exception
surprising, inventive and compelling, drawing on a wide range of sources, and
moving freely between the ephemeral and the canonical. Her essay ÒThe Modern
Girl as Militant,Ó published in 1991, remains the definitive work on the modern
girl in Japan. The year 2007 saw publication of her second book monograph,
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, a work
of tremendous scope that reframes the cultural history of interwar Japan,
realizing the promise of the now classic essay she published in 1991,
ÒConstructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan,Ó in which she called for
a reappraisal of Japanese modernity from the perspective of JapanÕs
Òconsumer-subjects.Ó
Miriam recognized the
significance of the colonial empire to understanding modern Japan well before
the emergence of interest in postcolonial studies among scholars in Japanese
studies. Her Masters essay at Georgetown dealt with the massacre of
Koreans in Tokyo following the earthquake of 1923. At UCLA, her long
interest in the history of the empire and in Koreans in the metropole led her
to teach courses such as ÒRace and CultureÓ and ÒThe Japanese Ideology of
Empire,Ó guiding graduate students toward new studies that brought Japanese and
Korean modern experience together, exposing the vast hidden landscape of
colonial modernity.
As a scholar, Miriam has
consistently pushed the boundaries of the field, posing bold questions and
pursuing her own answers with both intellectual rigor and astonishing creative
imagination. As a teacher, she has encouraged students to read widely, to
think imaginatively, and to write history that is both personally meaningful
and meaningful to the world. In recent teaching and writing, she has
turned to the problem of how to historicize the subject of intimacy. This
symposium thus synthesizes several of the topics and methodological issues that
Miriam has done so much over the years to reveal to the field. We hope it
will be a first step toward responding to the many challenges she has posed us
as scholars of modernity and of imperial Japan.
Saturday, 9:30 PM - 4:30
PM
314 Royce Hall
Humanities Conference Room
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Download File: colonial
sensibility symposium program.pdf
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/colonial%20sensibility%20symposium%20program.pdf
Saturday, December 8,
2007 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, December 9, 2007 2pm & 8pm
A Magical Holiday Event
The Marat Daukayev Ballet
Theatre
ÒThe NutcrackerÓ
Music by Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky Choreography by Vasily Vainonen Adapted/staged by Marat Daukayev
The students of the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet are featured in the annual
holiday production of the holiday classic, ÒThe Nutcracker.Ó
For information visit
Marat Ballet at www.maratdaukayev.com
or contact Marat Ballet at (323) 965-0333
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre $25
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center
244 South San Pedro
Street, Suite 505
(between 2nd and 3rd
Streets)
Los Angeles (Little
Tokyo), CA 90012
(213) 628-2725
Saturday, December
08, 2007
Holiday Cards
Workshop
In this second
gift-making workshop, Ruthie Kitagawa shows you how to make your very own
holiday cards to share with family and friends.
$8 National Museum
members; $13 non-members; includes materials and Museum admission. Reservations
highly recommended, limited to 10 participants, ages 14 and up.
1:00pm
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles,
California 90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
www.janm.org
Last
weekend (or so) I went to:
Japan
Expo
Gets
smaller every year, but the enthusiasm for the cultural performances increases
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Links to selected
articles from the LA Times. To actually access the articles, you may have to
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Chinese tourism in U.S.
expected to blossom
Southern California is a
likely destination for middle- and upper-class visitors with money to spend.
New travel rules between the two nations are pending, experts say.
By David Pierson, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 2, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tourism2dec02,1,2090318.story
UNLOCKING CHINA |
SILK ROAD
Revved up for a tour of
China's Silk Road
Marco Polo never had
it like this. A motorcycle tour across his ancient route offers luxury hotels
and stunning scenery.
By Susan Carpenter, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 30, 2007
http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-silk2dec02
Immigrants' children grow
fluent in English, study says
Latinos see the language
as the key to success, Pew research shows.
By Anna Gorman, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 30, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-english30nov30,1,196667.story
In South Korea, it feels
like a scandal a day
Cutting corners appears to
be pervasive in the hard-charging society.
By Bruce Wallace, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 30, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-sokorrupt30nov30,1,256788.story
Japan's whaling shame
Tradition is no
justification for further imperiling our already fragile oceans.
By Peter Heller
December 3, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-heller3dec03,1,1712328.story
PCs growing passe in
tech-conscious Japan
Sales are shrinking as
smart phones and flat-screen televisions grab all the attention.
By Hiroko Tabuchi, The
Associated Press
December 3, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ft-japanpc3dec03,1,377110.story
Museums
December 2, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-list-museums2dec02,1,5438674.story
Hotel in L.A.'s Little
Tokyo is renamed
Under new management, the
New Otani Hotel & Garden is now the Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens.
By Roger Vincent, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 1, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hotel1dec01,1,6772042.story
Sculpted moments
November 29, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-gd-artcandy29dichotomiesnov29,1,1772224.story
COLUMN ONE
China's man at the anchor
desk
Chris
Hyde / For The Times
BROADCAST NEWS IN CHINA:
ÒI donÕt feel that any of us are employed to be stooges,Ó Edwin Maher says of
fellow foreigners at ChinaÕs English-language television station, CCTV. ÒBut
obviously there are limits.Ó Above, he relaxes in Beijing.
Westerner Edwin Maher
reads government 'news' for Beijing TV. He ignores those who call him a
sellout.
By John M. Glionna, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-anchor4dec04,1,1291538.story
Chinese school is rah-rah
for U.S.-style campus
Cao
Jun / Los Angeles Times
Bi Beibei, center,
practices at school. Her team flew to the U.S. in May for the world
cheerleading championships.
An entrepreneur from San
Gabriel has founded a university that offers students English lessons and
cheerleading.
By Don Lee, Los Angeles
Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-university4dec04,1,4893525.story
Saint's following is more
diverse
Non-Latino Catholics in
L.A. are drawn to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
By K. Connie Kang, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 3, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-virgin3dec03,1,4016094.story