Chris Kando Iijima has been played on NTS shows including Getting Warmer w/ Jen Monroe, with Imperialism Is Another Word For Hunger first played on 23 October 2024.

Chris Kwando Iijima (1948–2005) was an American folksinger, educator and legal scholar. He, Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto, and Charlie Chin, were the members of the group Yellow Pearl; their 1973 album, A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America (originally recorded on Paredon Records now Smithsonian Folkways was an important part of the development of Asian American identity in the early 1970s.

AsianWeek columnist Phil Tajitsu Nash stated that when hearing the album or Yellow…