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  • ‘Hafu’ tells story of Japan’s mixed-race minority and changing attitudes in society

    ‘Hafu’ tells story of Japan’s mixed-race minority and changing attitudes in society Japan Today 2013-11-15 Philip Kendall TOKYO—For such a small word, “half” carries an awful lot of weight here in Japan. Adapted to fit the syllabary, the word is pronounced “hafu” in Japanese, and describes a person who has one Japanese – and of…

  • Feature: Between two worlds: challenges of being mixed-race in Japan

    Feature: Between two worlds: challenges of being mixed-race in Japan China Daily Xinhua News Agency 2013-11-13 TOKYO, November 13 (Xinhua) — The latest statistics from Japan’s health ministry show that one in 49 babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent, giving way to a growing demographic of mixed-race nationals…

  • School aims to give biracial kids a place to ‘be themselves’

    School aims to give biracial kids a place to ‘be themselves’ Japan Times 2013-10-20 Michael Bradley, Special to the Japan Times NAKAGUSUKU, OKINAWA – Melissa Tomlinson doesn’t have very happy memories of elementary school. As an 8-year-old, she “never had a chance to eat lunch normally — the other kids put something in it, or…

  • Double the trouble, twice the joy for Japan’s hāfu

    Double the trouble, twice the joy for Japan’s hāfu The Japan Times 2013-10-03 Kaori Shoji, Special To The Japan Times Until about 10 years ago, the standard Japanese image of kids of mixed blood was that they were 1) gorgeous, 2) rich and 3) able to live in Japan with none of the kinks and…

  • Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V)

    Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…

  • Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy

    Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2012-07-25 Elton Alisson USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration Agência FAPESP – Japanese…

  • Prove you’re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden

    Prove you’re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden The Japan Times 2013-07-29 Louise George Kittaka Parents’ decision to add a katakana name can create issues when kids enter the big wide world Japanese are Japanese and foreigners are foreigners, and never the twain shall meet? In many aspects of daily life in this…

  • Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition

    Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition AltaMira Press June 2006 436 pages 7 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0972-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0973-5 Edited by: Lola Romanucci-Ross, Professor Emerita of Family and Preventive Medicine University of California, San Diego De George A. Vos (1922-2010), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of…

  • Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?”

    Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…

  • LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots

    LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…