Tag: Hapa Japan

  • Often, I find that the Japanese mother is happy to know that their “American” child is interested in Japanese-ness. I do know a few mothers who also became angry with their children for being interested in finding their Japanese roots.

  • We are not only personal identities. We represent so much more. And in this way, each of us is quite powerful and agents of change, whether we feel responsible to this or not. And in this way, the ignorance we may carry, will also play its role in the forming of culture, little by little,…

  • In focusing on my mother and myself, it came one day in a dream. Just as the opening scene in my book presents, I am suddenly woken up in the middle of the night to write: みずこ 水子 ミズコ (mizuko) on a notepad I pull out from the bedside drawer.

  • Leaders in the multiracial movement gather to ‘Resist, Reclaim, Reimagine’ – a direct call to action amidst the current political climate faced by historically underrepresented communities in the U.S.