Seiji Yamashita is a Japanese-American jazz pianist and a duPont Columbia Award winning video journalist at CBS News based in Washington, D.C.
He covers climate, government and race & culture.
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In the past several decades, thousands of migrants have been arriving in Hawaii.
More Hawaiians now live in the continental US than on the islands.
ABC News' groundbreaking investigation looks into how well the U.S. plastic bag recycling system is working, and how communities are impacted by nearby landfills and incinerators.
For the third year in a row, Mari Uchida is honored to launch The Broadway Asian Men Calendar, a 15 month calendar passion project celebrating the Asian men of Broadway each month, with direct bios and quotes.
In Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”, residents are skeptical of carbon capture technology that could help improve their air.
After being disenrolled from the Nooksack tribe in 2016 after a former tribal chair questioned their ancestral lineage, the Rabang family fights to preserve their family history.
On March 20th, hundreds marched against the construction of a new jail in Manhattan Chinatown. The issue isn’t new. The community has protested against prisons for generations. Thousands protested in the 1980s. This time, Chinatown hopes the city will listen.
The bookstore focuses on AAPI authors and immigrant stories.
On the evening of March 16, Ana Hikari’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing with the news of the Atlanta shootings. Hikari, a Brazilian actress of Japanese, Black, and Indigenous descent, is one the first Asian actresses to play a leading role in a Brazilian soap opera, and both her friends and her more than a million Instagram followers immediately looked for her reaction to the grim news.
Despite wearing a white coat and scrubs, this Asian woman was beaten and assailed with racial slurs
Marching alongside thousands in the streets of Bangkok, in a matter of moments, a friendly crowd became frightened. Thita was in the middle as police officers began using water cannons on their fellow citizens.
The Empire Marching Elite has exceeded expectations.
Local activists, community organizations, and politicians gather in Union Square Friday night against anti-Asian crimes
A fellowship that encourages entrepreneurship gives hope to those out of prison
A younger generation of Asian Americans embraces their heritage
The Year of the Ox promises to be a tough one, but many restaurants are coming up with ways to adjust
Looking forward, Asian American activists hope to unify Asian communities into a powerful political demographic.
Longtime Chinatown activist Karlin Chan had a vision to draw visitors back: a series of brightly colored murals that would celebrate the neighborhood and serve as Instagram-ready sites depicting living signs of the neighborhood’s resilience.
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