{"id":53053,"date":"2017-03-29T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53053"},"modified":"2017-03-29T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:12:03","slug":"into-the-next-stage-hapa-documentaries-twin-takes-on-similar-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53053","title":{"rendered":"INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Hapa Documentaries \u2014 Twin Takes on Similar Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTO THE NEXT STAGE: Hapa Documentaries \u2014 Twin Takes on Similar Subject<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News<\/a>
\n2017-03-16<\/p>\n

George Toshio Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As part of last month\u2019s Hapa Japan Festival 2017<\/a> was a screening of a pair of documentaries I was very interested in viewing: \u201cFall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides\u201d and \u201cRising Sun, Rising Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both screened Thursday, Feb. 23, in Little Tokyo<\/a> at the Japanese American National Museum\u2019s<\/a> Tateuchi Democracy Forum, with filmmakers from each in attendance to speak about the respective documentaries afterwards and to take audience questions.<\/p>\n

While different in emphasis, both \u201cFall Seven Times\u201d and \u201cRising Sun\u201d had at their respective cores a shared source, namely the so-called Japanese war bride<\/a> phenomenon that occurred following Japan\u2019s<\/a> defeat after World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was during that post-war occupation period when thousands upon thousands of U.S. military personnel from all branches of the Armed Forces, as well as civil service employees, went to Japan and Okinawa<\/a>, the latter of which was a quasi-U.S. military colony that didn\u2019t regain Japanese prefectural status until 1972…<\/p>\n

…In today\u2019s environment, when no one in California<\/a>, the West Coast<\/a> or big cities pauses when seeing a mixed-race couple in which one of the two is an Asian, these two documentaries do underscore what a big deal the Japanese war bride phenomenon really was…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of last month\u2019s Hapa Japan Festival 2017 was a screening of a pair of documentaries I was very interested in viewing: \u201cFall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides\u201d and \u201cRising Sun, Rising Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,459,8,20],"tags":[26709,26708,25919,25022,3957,586,23014,5248,14247,14246,5611,1961],"class_list":["post-53053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-george-t-johnston","tag-george-toshio-johnston","tag-hapa-japan-festival","tag-kathryn-tolbert","tag-megumi-nishikura","tag-mitzi-uehara-carter","tag-monique-yamaguchi","tag-rafu-shimpo","tag-the-rafu-shimpo","tag-the-rafu-shimpo-los-angeles-japanese-daily-news","tag-velina-houston","tag-yayoi-lena-winfrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53053","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=53053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53055,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53053\/revisions\/53055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}