Tag: Yayoi Lena Winfrey

  • 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.”

  • ‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…

  • The stories of the ‘War Brides’ of Japan need to be told International Examiner Seattle, Washington 2016-07-21 Yayoi Lena Winfrey One day in the early 1980s, my Japanese mother took my sister and me to an International District gift shop. A middle-aged Japanese American man working there glanced briefly towards us, before turning away apathetically.…

  • In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph] International Examiner Volume 32, Number 2 2010-01-21 Yayoi Lena Winfrey A highly anticipated event for mixed-race people takes place this year. Although it may seem officious and routine for most, the upcoming U.S. Census is actually an exciting undertaking…