So Long and Thanks For All the Saba -- Japanese Eldercare Homes Face Dwindling Demand
DiscoverNikkei, News Feature, Posted: Mar 29, 2010
What does decreased demand for a Japanese cultural environment as Nikkei increasingly assimilate into mainstream culture mean for elder care organizations that once wooed Japanese Americans with promises of saba dinners and karuta games?
Tags: asian, ethnic elders
Young People on Their Most Important Woman
NAM Youth Collective, Commentary, Posted: Mar 25, 2010
For Women’s History Month, New America Media asked young people to describe the woman they look up to the most. Most pointed to women in their own family, especially their mothers and grandmothers.
Categories: Elders, Front Page, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Tags: elders, grandmothers, mothers, women's history month
41,000 Filipino WWII Vets File for Compensation
Philippine News/New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 01, 2010
A year after President Obama signed a law finally compensating Filipino World War II veterans for their service, reporter Cristina Pastor examines how it happened ... and some problems that are beginning to emerge.
Categories: Asian, Elders, Original NAM Content, Stimulus Watch, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: filipino, greatest generation, veterans, world war ii