{"id":10411,"date":"2010-12-03T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2010-12-03T02:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T02:30:36","slug":"the-whole-story-on-being-hafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10411","title":{"rendered":"The whole story on being &#8216;hafu&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnngo.com\/explorations\/life\/whole-story-being-hafu-722376\" target=\"_blank\">The whole story on being &#8216;hafu&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN International<br \/>\nCNN Go<br \/>\n2010-11-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielkrieger.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Krieger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The movie &#8216;Hafu&#8217; explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15988862\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan?<\/p>\n<p>This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and Lara Takagi set out to explore in their documentary film, &#8220;Hafu,&#8221; of which they showed a preview screening last month at the Kansai Franco-Japanese Institute in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which is not yet completed, is an offshoot of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hafujapanese.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hafu Project<\/a>, which was set up in London two years ago by sociologist Marcia Yume Lise and photographer Natalie Maya Willer, both half-Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>The project profiles hafus with photos and interviews that shed light on the experience of living between two cultures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to create an opportunity to discuss contemporary Japan through the lens of half Japanese,&#8221; says Lise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnngo.com\/explorations\/life\/whole-story-being-hafu-722376\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole story on being &#8216;hafu&#8217; CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie &#8216;Hafu&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,6,842],"tags":[4603,4605,4580,1793,3956,4604,3957,3439],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-videos","tag-cnn-go","tag-daniel-krieger","tag-hafu-project","tag-japan","tag-lara-takagi","tag-marcia-yume-lise","tag-megumi-nishikura","tag-natalie-maya-willer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}