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  • INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Hapa Documentaries — Twin Takes on Similar Subject

    As part of last month’s Hapa Japan Festival 2017 was a screening of a pair of documentaries I was very interested in viewing: “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides” and “Rising Sun, Rising Soul.”

  • Two Halves Of A Whole: On Japan’s Habitual ‘Labeling’ Of Bicultural Kids

    Half Or Double, It’s About Time We Let Them Speak For Themselves

  • Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2014-11-16 Sharon H. Chang Ah. Where do I begin. I’m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to Seattle (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in Chicago at the…

  • ‘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…

  • 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…

  • FILM: Mixed-Race People Tell Their Stories in ‘Hafu’

    FILM: Mixed-Race People Tell Their Stories in ‘Hafu’ The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-05-03 J.K. Yamamoto, Rafu Staff Writer “Hafu,” a new documentary about mixed-race people in Japan, will be screened Wednesday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum, First and Central in Little Tokyo, as part of…

  • Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan

    Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 29th Edition 2013-05-02 through 2013-05-12 2012 87 minutes Directed by: Megumi Nishikura and Lara Perez Takagi English, Japanese Screening: Wednesday, 2013-05-08, 19:30 PDT (Local Time): National Center for the Preservation of Democracy HAFU is more than a mere documentary about mixed race Japanese, or…

  • Hafu: The Film

    Hafu: The Film Hafu: The Film 2013-01-30 Megumi Nishikura, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Lara Perez Takagi, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Marcia Yumi Lise, Thematic Advisor Jilann Spitzmiller, Executive Producer Aika Miyake, Editor Winton White, Music Dear Friends, A belated happy new years to you! We have been quietly busy these past few months but have…

  • The Other Hafu of Japan

    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…

  • The whole story on being ‘hafu’

    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…