Apolo Anton Ohno is an American short track speed skating competitor and the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time
Asobi Seksu
Asobi Seksu is a shoegazing rock and roll band based in New York City with heavy elements of pop music.
Halvsie Journo Roxana Saberi on the Daily Show
Japanese-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi describes how she was arrested for espionage and sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison.
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.
We [...]
Judith Hill – Heal the World
Check out halvsie Judith Hill singing “Heal the World” at Michael Jackson’s Memorial
Marie Digby – Feel
Watch [[Marie Digby]]’s new music video for “Feel”, the first single in Japan off her new album “Breathing Underwater”
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
