tweets
- 21.Feb
- Weekly Tweets
Check out the Reed siblings competing in Ice Dancing tonight! http://bit.ly/c90C9f #
Ice Dancing kicks off in Vancouver tonight, and there are three halvsie siblings competing for two different… http://bit.ly/9mMw7x #- 14.Feb
- Weekly Tweets
Apolo Ohno is through the first round of Speed Skating 1500! http://bit.ly/9d6AM7 #
Happy Halvsie Valentines! http://bit.ly/bd1olT #- 07.Feb
- Weekly Tweets
6 (or so) questions an ad agency should ask a prospective client before pitching http://bit.ly/bj49BT #
halvsies
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- 14.Jun
- Mrs Burks’ Sunday Roast
A Japanese food writer blends her passion for British food with the memories that accompany each dish, in this touching documentary, a labour of love with all the trimmings.
- 15.May
- Calling all half Japanese people living in Japan (over 18s only)
‘Hafu’ Photo Project
Natalie Maya Willer and Marcia Yumi Lise
www.hafujapanese.org
Tokyo Photo Shoot 20th (Sat) & 21st (Sun) June, 10am – 7pm
Osaka Photo Shoot 28th [...]
music
- 09.Jul
- Check out halvsie Judith Hill
Check out halvsie Judith Hill singing “Heal the World” at Michael Jackson’s Memorial
- 15.Jun
- Marie Digby’s new music video …
Watch Marie Digby’s new music video for “Feel”, the first single in Japan off her new album “Breathing Underwater”
- 25.May
- More Asobi Seksu MP3s
Download “I’m Happy But You Don’t Like Me/Thursday” from Transpondency.com
sports
- 03.Jun
- Kobayashi’s hot dog record falls
The annual Coney Island Nathan’s hot Dog eating contest, held every year on 4th of July weekend, and broadcast on ESPN, just got a lot more interesting. Over the past few years it has been dominated by a Japanese national Takeru Kobayashi. This week Joey Chestnut, 22, of San Jose, shattered the record by [...]
- 01.Jun
- Roberts on the cover of AsianWeek
Dave Roberts, the new centerfielder for the San Francisco Giants, is on the cover of this week’s AsianWeek, and goes into detail about being half Japanese.
- 25.May
- Paulo Nagamura heads to Chivas USA
Paulo Nagamura is happy to land with a club that needs him, and a role that suits him.
culture
- 16.Jul
- Alec Yoshio MacDonald’s article “Check the Label” published in Nichi Bei Times
Japanese Americans have some handy labels with which to identify ourselves. Nikkei, referring to emigrants from Japan and their descendants, works rather nicely. Yes, it does lump us in with people of other nationalities, and sure, it has probably confused its share of stockbrokers, but these minor details haven’t diminished its omnipresence in our lives.
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- 12.May
- Journalist Roxana Saberi has been released
Roxana Saberi is an Iranian/Japanese American journalist, who was arrested in Iran in February 2009 for working as a reporter without press credentials – her credentials were revoked in 2006. On April 8, 2009, the Iranian government charged Saberi with espionage, and she was subsequently sentenced to an eight-year prison term. An appeals court reduced [...]
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- 07.May
- Halvsie Ehren Watada’s case has been dismissed
Ehren Watada is a First Lieutenant of the United States Army who in June, 2006, refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit’s assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him party to war crimes. At [...]
pictures
What is Halvsie?
A halvsie is a person with half Japanese heritage. The term was coined to replace the more general ‘hapa’. Halvsie was inspired by the Japanese ‘hafu’ used to describe offspring of a mixed marriage, and derived from the English ‘halves’.
Halvsie.com hosts a forum where our members introduce themselves to other half Japanese, some finding other halvsies in their cities for the very first time. Many of our members have found kindship in their country were they once thought that they were rare. Informal groups have arisen in Tokyo, Los Angeles, London, and Helsinki and many a nomikai have been organized under the halvsie banner.
As you can see from the image above there are a lot of famous half Japanese including Dave Roberts, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Alpolo Ohno, Rina Chinen, Sean Lennon, Ann Curry, Karen Gomyo, Edna Mode and Devon Aoki. They span continents and categories and we have chronicled literally hundreds of them in our Wiki.
