Our Stories are Your Stories: Peter Tomozawa
We sat down with Sounders FC President of Business Operations, Peter Tomozawa, to learn about his AAPI heritage and family story. Tomozawa is the only Asian-American President of Business Operations in North American professional sports.
Tell us about your AAPI heritage and what makes you most proud about your family.
PT: I am a first generation Japanese American. My parents were born and raised in Japan. I was born in London, England. My younger brother was born in Pisa, Italy and we moved to the U.S. when I was six years old. My father was a physics professor, graduated from the University of Tokyo, worked at Cambridge, University of London, University of Pisa, Princeton, Stanford and finally we settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he became a full professor and to this day at the age of 91 goes to work six days a week and publishes research. We came to this country with nothing other than my father and mother’s desire to be in
Forum, May 26: There is no place for hate in West Lebanon
Published: 5/25/2021 10:00:13 PM
Modified: 5/25/2021 10:00:12 PM
There is no place for hate in West Lebanon
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the West Lebanon Revitalization Advisory Committee would like to acknowledge and celebrate our AAPI neighbors and businesses. They are an important part of our downtown’s success and ongoing improvement.
To our Asian American and Pacific Islander friends and neighbors: thank you for being a part of our community and helping to keep Lebanon vibrant. We offer our gratitude and support for everything you do for our community, and look forward to working with you as our downtown continues to grow and improve.
The Asian dishes that bring our readers comfort and remind them of home Marian Liu, Courtney Kan For many cultures, food connects and comforts. But for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, it’s often our love language too. It’s how we’ve been coping through the pandemic, especially through an onslaught of hate in the past year. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 10 chefs and celebrities shared with us what role food plays in their communities, including their favorite Asian comfort dishes. The Washington Post asked readers the same thing. Many recalled memories of not only their motherlands, but of their mothers.
Jew’s great-grandfather, M.Y. Lee, played a key role in American history, helping to build the transcontinental railroad. To unite the eastern and western sections of the railroad, Central Pacific hired roughly 15,000 Chinese laborers who each shoveled 20 pounds of rock over 400 times a day to complete the Summit Tunnel at Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Despite their backbreaking labor, when the two great railroads were united at Promontory Point, Utah, M.Y. Lee and his compatriots were excluded from the historic ceremony commemorating the union of East and West.
When Jew witnessed the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations of 1976, she identified a lack of recognition for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. She believes that not only should these communities understand their own heritage, but that all Americans should have an awareness of their contributions and histories in the U.S. Signed into law in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, the commemorative month honors the
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To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I am going to discuss my list of my 10 favorite albums from Asian and Asian American musicians since 2010. The methodology for constructing this list? Hours of arbitrary sifting through large catalogs of albums, some amount of piecemeal research, lots of listening to albums and much debate.
My criteria for placing each album discussed here rely on my assessments of cultural influence, cultural significance and aesthetic value, all in varying degrees. I have made many rather radical inclusions on the list; I hope these help foster diverse taste and consideration of music scenes in oft-ignored countries in, for example, Southeast and South Asia who can name any Malaysian, any Singaporean, any Cambodian rock bands? I didn’t know much about contemporary music of these regions, and I ended up relying greatly on Internet board sentiments, Bandcamp articles and seei