It’s a little old, but important to document here, Mike Shinoda, of Linkin Park fame has written one of the only modern songs about the Japanese American internment during WWII. The video, shown above, is from his solo project Fort Minor. Big props to Shinoda for introducing the subject to a whole new generation.
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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 #
links
- 01.Jun
- Japan Blog Surfer: May 07, Week 4
Not a bad week for Japan readers this week:
On Tokyo Mango I found a nice summary about Riyo Mori, who won the Miss Universe contest in Mexico this week. Also, Lisa discusses a cool new keitai app which allows a user to email in a mobile picture of themselves, and receive a couple of images [...]
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.
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 [...]
television
- 23.May
- Apolo won!
He won! Ohno wins Dancing with the Stars.
film
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- 02.Jun
- Devon talks about DOA
DOA, a very popular video game created by Tecmo, has been made into a movie starring Devon Aoki. On IESB.net they’ve posted a video interview with Devon, talking about her role, the movie, and some of he stunts involved in creating the action scenes.
