Tag: The Rafu Shimpo

  • 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.”

  • A Picture of Her ‘Kentucky’ Home The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2016-11-27 Mikey Hirano Culross Leah Nanako Winkler was born in Japan, raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City. Leah Nanako Winkler arrived more than flustered, bounding into a dressing room at East West Players after having endured…

  • The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • ‘Visible & Invisible’ Exhibition to Explore History of Hapa JA Experience The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-03-31 The Japanese American National Museum, in collaboration with the USC Hapa Japan Database Project, will present its next exhibition, “Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History,” from Sunday, April 7, through Sunday, Aug. 25.…