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Akiko Fujita

Akiko Fujita is a multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, and a regular contributor to The World.Prior to her move back to the West Coast, Fujita spent more than 4 years in Tokyo, working as a correspondent for ABC News. Her work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Al Jazeera America, and CNN.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Creating a zero-waste city
Puteri Hasannah Karunia is a popular fashion blogger, one of Indonesia's generation of young Muslim fashionistas known as "hijabers."
Belief
Hijab fashion is so popular in Indonesia non-Muslim designers are getting in on it
Grandfather
Conflict
My grandfather’s hidden past is wrapped up in his complex relationship to World War II
mariachi
Culture
LA’s master mariachi tailor says sewing started out like a game for him
Volunteers with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an Los Angeles-based non-profit, work the phones to get Asian-American voters to the polls in California. The phone bank is part of the "Your Vote Matters" campaign, an effort to get 30,000 infrequent vot
Global Politics
Getting Asian immigrants in the US to vote means breaking the language barrier
kids
Education
Central American kids who make it to the US must cope with the violence they left behind
Joe Corona, 23 years old and Mexican-American, is one of the star players for the Xolos, a professional soccer team based in Tijuana, Mexico. The team is actively recruiting top soccer players from the US, and now other Mexican soccer clubs are following
Sports
To get on the US national men’s soccer team, you may need to cross the border into Mexico
Gil Devine in front of his home in Mexico, near the border. Devine commutes to work six days a week in San Diego.
Lifestyle & Belief
Some Americans are trading their US homes for an international commute from Mexico
Bruce Kaji, shaking the hand of Japan's Crown Prince who had just landed in Los Angeles on a US Air Force airplane, in 1961. "In our family, we call this photo, The Prince and the Pauper.," says Bruce's son, Jon.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Toyota built Torrance into the second-largest home of Japanese Americans. Now, it’s leaving
Bruce Kaji, shaking the hand of Japan's Crown Prince who had just landed in Los Angeles on a US Air Force airplane, in 1961. "In our family, we call this photo, The Prince and the Pauper.," says Bruce's son, Jon.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Toyota built Torrance into the second-largest home of Japanese Americans. Now, it’s leaving
Choi Jin-Hyuk is an actor on the popular Korean drama series 'Heirs' about wealthy Korean high school students who wrestle with social hierarchies and romance.
Arts, Culture & Media
Your next big, addictive TV series could be from South Korea
Riffat Rahman, a health care advocate, conducts outreach about the Affordable Care Act in a Los Angeles neighborhood called Little Bangladesh.
Health & Medicine
One woman takes Obamacare’s promise to Bangladeshi immigrants
Environment
Japan’s Gasoline Rationing Experience
Global Politics
Another prime minister for Japan?
Global Politics
Japan’s centenarian mystery
Arts, Culture & Media
Japan now number three
Global Politics
Japan seeks help from former North Korean spy
Conflict & Justice
Catchy names for Japan’s many political parties
Conflict & Justice
Japanese craft ritual for divorce
Arts, Culture & Media
Japanese soccer fans rooting for North Korea
Global Politics
Japanese Prime Minister resigns
Global Politics
US and Japan close to ending dispute over military base
Arts, Culture & Media
Famous Kabuki theater to close
Arts, Culture & Media
Fish rock
Global Politics
Japan’s North Korean schools
Global Politics
Toyota boss faces tough questions
Global Politics
What the Toyota recall means to Japan
Conflict & Justice
Japan’s ‘foreigners’
Global Politics
Guam awaits the Marines
Arts, Culture & Media
Lucky Bags in Japan
Arts, Culture & Media
KFC Christmas
Global Politics
US and Japan tense over Okinawa
Arts, Culture & Media
Kit Kat big in Japan
Conflict & Justice
US-Japan custody battle
Global Politics
Japan’s new first lady
Arts, Culture & Media
Recreating Nagasaki
Conflict & Justice
Cafe just for smokers
Conflict & Justice
Going grassroots in Japan
Development & Education
Toyota’s bright spot
Arts, Culture & Media
Marriage-hunting in Japan
Business, Economics and Jobs
Japan tells guest workers: don’t come back!
Environment
Japanese salarymen on the farm