Tag: Japan

  • Living as Others in Japan Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2011 Biennial Conference Internationalising Japan: Sport, Culture and Education University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia 2011-07-04 through 2011-07-07 Wednesday, 2011-07-06, 11:00-12:30 AEDT (Local Time) Room 102 This panel will present two historical papers about individuals whose lives were…

  • Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes…

  • Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan AAS-ICAS Joint Conference Association for Asian Studes (AAS)/International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2011-03-31 through 2011-04-03 Hawai’i Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii Session Location and Time: Room 316C Saturday, 2011-04-02, 07:30-09:30 HAST (Local Time) Organizer and Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi Waseda University, Japan Discussant: Hsiao-Chuan Hsia…

  • The Other Hafu of Japan Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanses Daily News 2011-01-14 Brett Fujioka, Rafu Intern A new documentary examines the lives of racially mixed individuals as they explore their own identities. Is a ship the same if you take it apart piece by piece and replace its frame? No simple answer exists, as…

  • Positioning American Japanese in the Context of Japanese and Okinawan Nationalism and Ethnicity Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 18 pages Stephanie Otani Stanford University have the right… Not to justify my existence in this world. Not to keep the races separate within me. Not to be responsible for people’s discomfort…

  • The whole story on being ‘hafu’ CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie ‘Hafu’ explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan? This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and…

  • Will there ever be a rainbow Japan? CNN International CNN Go 2010-12-01 Tracy Slater Government statistics suggest multiculturalism is on the rise, but social organizations for mixed-race Japanese say ‘hafus’ still face challenges Japan, which closed its borders from 1639 to 1854 and later colonized its neighbors, has an uneasy history with foreigners, national identity,…

  • The Japanese in multiracial Peru, 1899-1942 University of California, San Diego November 2009 335 pages Publication Number: AAT 3355652 Stephanie Carol Moore This study analyzes the integration of the Japanese into the politics of race and nation in Peru during the period from 1899 to 1942. The first generation of Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru…

  • HAFU: a film about the experiences of mixed-race people living in Japan Hafu Film Sneak Preview in Kyoto Institut Franco-Japonais du Kansai, Kyoto, Japan Saturday, 2010-10-23. 19:30 – 22:00 (Local Time) Filmmakers Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura David Yano (29). David was born in a small village in Ghana, to a Ghanaian mother and…

  • Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley 691 Barrows Hall 2010-10-07, 16:00 to 17:30 PDT (Local Time) A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This presentation focuses on the developmental trajectory of the portrayal…