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number9

Posted 23 December 2003 - 09:14 AM

I can't find this topic, so I'm creating this thread.

Just wanted somewhere where users can suggest additions to the famous halvsies list.

Here's my addition to the list just off the top of my head:

Fujiko Hemming - music - Pianist
http://www.fujiko-he...file/index.html

Koji Murofushi - sports - Olympic hammer thrower for Japan. Japanese Father was also Olympic hammer thrower for Japan, Romanian mother was Olympic javelin thrower for Romania. http://www2.aia.pref...ocal_voice.html

Ivonne Kanazawa - sports - Olympic hurdles runner for Japan in the 90s

Yu Darvish (sp?) - sports - Japanese mother, Iranian father (soccer player). Ace pitcher for Tohoku highschool baseball team. He's been competing at the super high-profile National Highschool Baseball Championships at Koshien the last couple of years.

Robert Cullen - sports - Japanese mother, North Irish father. Striker for Ichiritsu Funabashi highschool soccer team. Won the National Youth Soccer Championship this year, also represented Japan in a youth level game.

Also, Namie Amuro has just released a new album called Style.
http://www.amazon.co...0138692-6135546

Will try to look for their details when it's not 2am JST

kristina

Posted 23 December 2003 - 10:45 AM

i believe, doug robb from hoobastank is japanese and white. also, dean cain is 1/4 japanese (not really a halvsie, i suppose).

there are actually quite a few non-japanese hapas that are hapa that most people never knew.. like mark-paul gosselar (indonesian hapa), norah jones (indian hapa), rob schneider (filipino hapa), and michelle branch (indonesian hapa).

EDIT: nevermind, doug robb is on the celebrities section. dur! :wacko:

Lisa Tatsuko

Posted 23 December 2003 - 06:21 PM

Is Richard Gere listed here? He's 1/4...

Also, Chris Kuroda... 1/2 Japanese... he does the lights for the band PHISH... and if you've ever been to a PHISH show, you'll know, his lights are fantastic. You've never seen anything like it!

Matta ne...

kristina

Posted 23 December 2003 - 08:08 PM

Lisa Tatsuko, on Dec 23 2003, 06:21 PM, said:

Is Richard Gere listed here? He's 1/4...

you sure? that's a first i've heard of this. i know he has very strong buddhist views and involvement in the asian culture IN asia.. but that's the first i've heard of him being 1/4 asian (or japanese).

number9

Posted 23 December 2003 - 11:40 PM

Oh yeah, Ilmari of Rip Slyme (J-hip hop group) is half-Finnish and half-Japanese. And Nesmith (sp? Nesumisu in katakana) Ryuta Karim of R&B duo Steel is half-black and half-Japanese born and raised in Kumamoto and can only speak Japanese, apparently.

And I think Crystal Kay should get an honourable mention. Even though she's half-African American and half-Korean, her Korean mother, I believe, is zainichi permanent special visa holder in Japan. So, essentially her mother is Korean-Japanese, the Japanese government just don't give away citizenships that easily... Apparently Crystal has released an all English album for the world audience already...

Steel:
http://www.kininaru-...002/column.html
http://www.labelgate...0311297/FLSU07/

Rip Slyme:
http://www.ripslyme.com/

Crystal Kay:
http://www.sonymusic...sic/Info/C-Kay/

Lisa Tatsuko

Posted 24 December 2003 - 05:35 AM

HapaKristina-san,

Yes, I read an interview with Richard Gere in the Buddhist Review back in either '96 or '97. He was asked which relative had the most influence on him, and he said, his Japanese Grandmother. I see it in his eyes and cheeks! :ph34r:

Ja ne...

Lisa

kristina

Posted 24 December 2003 - 06:22 AM

Lisa Tatsuko, on Dec 24 2003, 05:35 AM, said:

HapaKristina-san,

Yes, I read an interview with Richard Gere in the Buddhist Review back in either '96 or '97. He was asked which relative had the most influence on him, and he said, his Japanese Grandmother. I see it in his eyes and cheeks! :ph34r:

Ja ne...

Lisa

wow. when you told me that and i saw a picture of him, i thought his eyes were a bit asiatic. very interesting. thanks lisa!

Lisa Tatsuko

Posted 24 December 2003 - 06:56 AM

He actually lives just a few miles from my parents... I'm dying to just go and say hey....

Happy Christmas Eve!

Ja ne...

Lisa

number9

Posted 24 December 2003 - 07:26 AM

Hmm... that may explain why Gere participated in the Kurosawa's final film. It was a syrupy one and he was an apologetic former American soldier in Japan. It was Rhapsody in August, not sure why the critics liked it... maybe a bit like Last Samurai?

http://www.rottentom...906/preview.php

Lisa Tatsuko

Posted 24 December 2003 - 11:03 AM

hmmm, never heard that!

Well, then, there's also Kianneau Reeves (good god, how do you spell that?)

Lisa

kristina

Posted 24 December 2003 - 11:13 AM

Lisa Tatsuko, on Dec 24 2003, 11:03 AM, said:

hmmm, never heard that!

Well, then, there's also Kianneau Reeves (good god, how do you spell that?)

Lisa

keanu reeves.

*wipes drool* can you believe he's going to be 41? :blink:

Lisa Tatsuko

Posted 24 December 2003 - 11:35 AM

No way, really? No, I can't believe that, but in a way, I can. I will be 40 in April, and am really not believing that at all... Something about our hapa'ness helps us to retain our youth though, really!

notjeff

Posted 25 December 2003 - 06:07 PM

just off the top of my head, i know that one of the most influencial sculptors of the 20th century is left off the list. And what is even more fitting for this forum for me is that his sculpture, his best work combines the most powerful ideas from the east and west.

isamu noguchi

http://www.noguchi.org/

number9

Posted 01 January 2004 - 10:02 PM

Oh yeah, I forgot about the whole slew of halvsies in the Japan Ice Hockey League (it's debateable if they're famous, but many played in the Olympics and World Championships, and there's gonna be a new hockey drama starring Kimutaku starting this month, so hockey may become popular

)

Taro Nihei - Nippon Seishi Cranes - Japanese and Swedish - Forward - oops I guess he's back in Japan
Jiro Nihei - Nippon Seishi Cranes - Japanese and Swedish - Goalie - Nihei brothers' father runs a sushi restaurant in central Stockholm
Daniel Daikawa - Kokudo Lions - Japanese and American - Defenseman
Chris Yule - Chinese and Japanese, (born and?) raised in Canada?
Joel Dyck Oshiro - Nippon Seishi Cranes - Canadian and Japanese - Defenseman
http://sapporo.cool..../newpage113.htm

http://maru-design.c...apshot2003.html
http://www.jihl.jp/

Then there are the Kabira (Kabir) brothers on TV and radio in Japan, they're both from Okinawa and have an American parent. Older brother John Kabira is a DJ (Navigator) at the radio station J-Wave and also does play by play on Japanese national team soccer games:
http://www.j-wave.co.jp/
Younger brother Jay Kabira is a TV personality on TV Asahi's News Station, and various soccer programs:
http://www.ne.jp/asa...ers/kabira.html

asheffrin

Posted 02 January 2004 - 09:15 PM

Hey, I'm new here on this board.
Does anyone know of Mika Todd?
She's a half Australian half Japanese popstar in the music group, 'Morning Musume.'

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saren

Posted 03 January 2004 - 01:19 AM

Wow, so far so good. I've put them on onto our list. Over time we'll research them each a little more and improve their biographies. I'm a little stunned by Richard Gere but welcoming none the less. I agree that he has that nice guy quality which may very well be some of his grandmother's genes.

Saren

PS: Asheffrin welcome. Maryland in the hizzouse! Go terps.

asheffrin

Posted 03 January 2004 - 04:43 PM

There's also that model Rie Miyazawa. She's half dutch.
A biography of hers can be found here: http://metropolis.ja...ginjapaninc.htm

contrarymary

Posted 13 January 2004 - 07:11 PM

What about Ariane Koizumi? (half Japanese/ half Dutch). She was in that 1985 film with Mickey Rourke called "The Year of the Dragon". Unfortunately she seems to have been a bit of a one-hit wonder.

Posted 22 January 2004 - 04:24 PM

Does anyone know if Rachel Stevens from S Club 7 is half Japanese or slightly oriental, as i get told that i look like her?

Marisuke

Posted 26 January 2004 - 05:56 AM

Yeah I noticed her.
But I do not understand, I was reading Popolo from December 2003 and there was no mention of her...

I am not a fan of Mo-musu so I don't know much but.. ^^;;

Dragonarm

Posted 02 February 2004 - 08:21 AM

I think I mentioned this one in the old forum. Pro-natural Bodybuilder Stan McQuay, he's half-Japanese and half-Caucasian American. He was on a Discovery Channel documentary on bodybuilding. Since then, he's gained a lot of recognition and he picked up a contract with Muscle and Fitness magazine and you can see him in there regularly and on ads.

http://stanmcquay.com/

number9

Posted 18 February 2004 - 09:50 AM

I swear, I'll actually organize the info I provided on this thread into English some time... soon

Kozue Rin
http://www2.odn.ne.j...0/kozuerin.html
http://www.levie.co....ozue/kozue.html
TV celebrity. German born, American raised, moved to Japan at 13, her dad's Japanese scientist in the States.

Stefan Ishizaki
http://www.classicaj...ves/000372.html
http://www.genoacfc.it/rosa.asp
Genoa, Serie B football (soccer) player, also an U-23 (Olympic) Swedish national team member. Japanese father, Swedish mother. (Another half-Swedish athlete!)

Tanaka Marcus Tulio (Marcus TULIO Lyuji Murzani Tanaka)
http://www.mito-holl...3/player28.html
He looks half, and he's certainly got the name. Brazilian born, recently acquired Japanese citizenship. Pro football player for the J League Urawa Reds. He's on the U-23 Japanese side as well.

Marisuke

Posted 19 February 2004 - 01:22 PM

number9, on Feb 18 2004, 07:50 AM, said:

Tanaka Marcus Tulio (Marcus TULIO Lyuji Murzani Tanaka)
http://www.mito-holl...3/player28.html
He looks half, and he's certainly got the name. Brazilian born, recently acquired Japanese citizenship. Pro football player for the J League Urawa Reds. He's on the U-23 Japanese side as well.

Good this clears it up~

He was on television a few mornings ago and I thought he was half; however, my mother insisted that he was a pure Japanese. ^_=

number9

Posted 22 February 2004 - 04:14 PM

Oh yeah, here's another one: Tsuchiya Anna. She models for Japanese girls fashion magazines.
http://www.Japanese....file/index.html

number9

Posted 23 February 2004 - 04:07 AM

number9, on Dec 23 2003, 09:40 PM, said:

Oh yeah, Ilmari of Rip Slyme (J-hip hop group) is half-Finnish and half-Japanese.
Rip Slyme:
http://www.ripslyme.com

I'm pretty sure I saw Ilmari himself parking his Lincoln SUV (yeah, bling bling, he's a rapper, but he wasn't dressed in Fubu or anything...) on an Ebisu street last night! I wasn't 100% sure though, and he had a girl in the passenger seat, so I didn't intrude and say hi and ask. But I should've, and if I was wrong I could've said "You look a lot like him". Damn (not that I could've found out anything about him when the whole conversation would've been "Are you Ilmari from Rip Slyme?" "Yes" "Wow, that's cool. I like your songs, especially that drum n bass song with scratching itamae (sushi chef) scratching a plate with sushi on it." :1eye:

)

Another new potentially famous halvsie: Sugiyama Marcos, Japanese national men's volleyball team (recently granted citizenship). Born in Brazil between Brazilian father and Japanese mother and has played pro volleyball in both Brazil and Italy.
http://www.blazers.g...er/22marcos.htm
http://news.goo.ne.j...40202a5340.html

ika-chan

Posted 24 February 2004 - 03:47 AM

Etienne Ozeki

Born in Afrika, son of a French mother and Japanese father.
He is a designer of denim goods.

ETIENNE OZEKI - PREMIUM JEANSWEAR

Etienne Ozeki is the leading light and a brainchild of three denim lovers from Purple Pin Designs. They are Farook Jamal, Richard Hobbs and Ben Cheung.

Wanting to use their many years of experience in designing and developing jeanswear concepts for customers around the world the Etienne Ozeki brand concept was conceived.

Etienne Ozeki, or EO, is not a standard jeanswear collection. The brand uses inventive styling, innovative fabrics and treatments, and delivers a new aesthetic in denim.

Etienne is the fourth member of the team. He represents a combination of the other members experience, energies and aspirations. Etienne is the benchmark of quality, design and execution for the brand and is the final decision maker.

Farook Jamal, Managing Director said, & In August, 2001, Etienne Ozeki will launch its Autumn/Winter 2001 denim and jeanswear collection. These premium jeans, jackets, shirts, sweaters and knits feature many exclusive styling details and adventurous hand finishing application. All garments are unique, which is why Etienne Ozeki has limited its volume of production. According to Farook, the collection is being selectively marketed and only a handful of independent specialty retail customers in each country are being sought as retail partners.

EO& The Etienne Ozeki look is handcrafted, original, natural, individual and organic. All fabrics in the first collection are natural fibres such as cotton, linen and hemp. Sweaters and knits are made from both wool and cotton.

The core of Etienne Ozeki& Highlights of the collection are treated denim, over distressed denim washes and hand finished treatments.

The Autumn/Winter 2001 Etienne Ozeki Collection will be launched in the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Japan and Hong Kong.

For more information on the brand www.etienneozeki.com

Anna-Marie

Posted 24 February 2004 - 05:58 AM

Maybe this guy is already mentioned somewhere else so if that's the case sorry:

Apparently Mark Dacascos has some Japanese heritage along with Chinese, Filipino, Spanish, and Irish. He was born in Hawaii, but primarily raised in Hamburg, Germany.

Mark has studied Martial Arts since the age of 4, especially the disciplines of Kung Fu and Wun Hop Kuen Do. He has a 3rd degree black belt in Wun Hop Kuen Do and is a Martial Arts Champion and Instructor. He also has done some training in Capoeira with Joselito "Am�m" Santo, for "Only the Strong".

1982 European Kung Fu Champion-Lightweight
1982 Italian Kung Fu Champion-Lightweight
1980 and 1982 Hamburg and German Junior Martial Arts Champion.

Mabuta

Posted 24 February 2004 - 07:07 AM

number9,

itamae scratching sushiplates??? Have I missed something?

Mabuta

Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:59 AM

Miteki Kudo (French-Japanese haafu) is a dancer at L'Opera de Paris and she was a Shiseido model back in the late 80's or was it the early 90's. A friend's friend in Japan was a ballet dancer and somehow got hold of Miteki's address. I wrote a letter to her and got a reply!

http://www.imagidans...ars-03/Air.html

Maya

Mabuta

Posted 26 February 2004 - 08:09 AM

Yurie Alicia Kinoshita is an olympic yachting medalist AND she is a Danish-Japanese haafu born in Copenhagen in 1967.

http://www.sailing.o...bio_0106084.asp

I once met her at a hotel in Helsinki. The Japanese olympic yachting team was staying at the same hotel as me and my family, including my obaachan. The coach started talking to me when he realized that I could speak Japanese. He mentioned that they had a Japanese-Danish team member and he later introduced himself and Ms Kinoshita to me and my family. My obaachan was thrilled! :lol:

peachgirl

Posted 29 February 2004 - 09:40 PM

Mika and Belinda Jenkins:

The Pyongyang University attending daughters of kidnapped Japanese Hitomi Soga and American Defector Charles Robert Jenkins are two famous hapas!

They certainly have the best "how my parents met" story!

"Well my mom was kidnapped while walking home from school by some crazy north koreans and taken to DPRK in a boat in order to train north korean spies and my father defected from the American Army and ...they lived happily ever after"

http://news.bbc.co.u...fic/2475603.stm

number9

Posted 07 March 2004 - 01:23 AM

Good one peachy

Emiko Torito of the US Ski Team in freestyle moguls is a halvsie with a Japanese father:
http://www.du.edu/~etorito/
http://www.augustine...miko_torito.htm

Nez

Posted 08 March 2004 - 10:57 PM

What about Sean Lennon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's son?

peachgirl

Posted 09 March 2004 - 08:53 AM

Money Mark---keyboardist, works with the beastie boys.

Good music!!

Japanese/Mexican

http://www.moneymark...rkrockhands.jpg

"Mark�s music is the unique production of a musician unafraid to investigate new possibilities with old sounds. His first solo album, the much lauded �Mark�s Keyboard Repair�, is evidence of a rare ability to meld a multitude of styles - Blues, Jazz, Psychedelic Funk, Hip- Hop - into groovy musical excursions that all bear the stamp of innovative, laid-back cool. Money Mark is not an ordinary musician. But then Mark is not exactly what you would call an ordinary guy. The son of a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a Mexican who loves Jazz, he suggests that the roots of his musical eclecticism are to be found in the unusual cultural dynamics of his childhood: �Something like �Mark�s Keyboard Repair� comes about because my father�s an electronic engineer - so he taught me about electronics and technical things - and my mother kinda has the more dramatic, emotional side. The combination of the two really helped me to be something else - the sum of the two or whatever...a synthesis.�

kenji

Posted 09 March 2004 - 05:30 PM

I believe Money Mark is the only person to ever put out a cd shaped like himself. It doesn't work in car stereo systems, but hey, it is shaped like Money Mark.

kenji

number9

Posted 16 March 2004 - 07:53 AM

Yeah, Money Mark's cool!

I just found out that the girl who was in a recent Zexy (Japanese bridal magazine) TV commercial is a really cute halvsie (Italian father), Kato Rosa:
http://www.sma.co.jp/artist/rosa/
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peachgirl

Posted 16 March 2004 - 09:01 AM

Okay I found another one while reading "Shocking crimes of Postwar Japan" an English book I bought at kinokuniya.

Kiyoshi Okubo who coincidentally shares the same last name as me :gag:

, is 1/4 Russian. His mother Kinu was the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese man and a Russian woman.

Okubo was a serial rapist and killer, a playboy type who posed as an English teacher or artist and would coerce women to model for him or go for a cup of tea. Over a span of sixty-four days he approached approximately 150 females of whom more than on third agreed to spend time with him. Okubo murdered eight of his victims.

Some brief research on the web provides that there was a made for TV movie about Okubo in the 80's starring none other than Takeshi Kitano.

Nez

Posted 19 March 2004 - 07:56 PM

On an

Australian PayTV music channel, one of the VJs is a halvsie. She doesn't make a big deal about her

ethnicity, in fact she only mentions it once or twice a year.

href='http://www.channelv.com.au/page.asp?partID=577' target='_blank'>Yumi Stynes

saren

Posted 26 March 2004 - 08:21 AM

Yu Darvish, a

halvsie high school pitcher in Japan just pitched a no hitter at Koshien:
href='http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040326p2a00m0dm005000c.html' target='_blank'>No hitter story

Marisuke

Posted 26 March 2004 - 11:34 AM

Yu Darvish is so(10000000x) handsome that's why I started watching high school baseball~~
wait... no, I started watching because I love baseball ~~~ ^_=

number9

Posted 26 March 2004 - 07:15 PM

He's already amazing, it's gonna be fun to see him develop as a pro! Congrats Yu! (That's another nice halvsie boy's name, eh.)

http://baseballguru....es/00000671.htm

His next game is on the 30th against a team with a big bat, should be interesting (hopefully his arm's not going to be abused by the manager... many pitchers like Matsuzaka survive and thrive under those conditions, but I'm sure Japanese baseball lost many young pitchers this way too...)

number9

Posted 07 April 2004 - 11:38 PM

Chris Peppler is a DJ at J-Wave, a Tokyo radio station:
http://www.eigotown....erview_p1.shtml

Marisuke

Posted 08 April 2004 - 04:38 AM

Same as Sascha... he is half-german, half-japanese and he grew up in germany i think~~~

Yuki

Posted 08 April 2004 - 11:59 PM

The latest Metropolis has a feature on a woman called Hiroko Grace, a TV celebrity who is half American and half Japanese.

http://metropolis.ja...t/interview.asp

HaPaBuFf04

Posted 23 April 2004 - 02:46 PM

Can't forget Apolo Ohno!

nemuri

Posted 19 May 2004 - 05:41 AM

Reviving this thread as I feel the need to make one addition to the celebrity halvsie list - who is arguably the original uber-hottie-halvsie New York/Tokyo scenester - rather surprised this one hasn't been included yet; guess that means there aren't many jazz/soul/house fans here? Bio off the top of my head...

Monday Michiru - daughter of Boston sax legend Charlie Mariano (collaborated with the likes of Sam Rivers, Quincy Jones, Astrud Gilberto) and jazz piano queen Toshiko Akiyoshi (discovered by Oscar Peterson in Japan in the 50s, went on to work with Norman Granz, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, countless others; other honors and Grammy nominations galore). Did movies and TV for a while, better known as a radio personality, but above all else best known as an accomplished and incredibly versatile musician - vocals and instuments, production as well as remixing and DJing. Is perhaps best known at present through the myriad of remixes of her work, and her collaborations with some of the biggest international names in house and downtempo (Masters At Work and Nuyorican Soul crew, System 7, Basement Jaxx, Francois K/Joe Claussell & Body&Soul NYC, Blaze, Mo Wax et al., Knee Deep), and pretty much all the biggest names in said genres in Japan (DJ Krush, United Future Organization, Mondo Grosso, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Bird, Chari Chari, Wyolica, to name a handful). Aforementioned credentials are just what I know out of what I have, and I don't even buy vinyl... I'm sure they've got it covered at her site, which Google says is here:

http://www.mondaymichiru.com/

A couple years back she did this brilliant, brilliant loungy cover of "I Wanna Be Where You Are" - classiest Jackson 5 cover EVAR.

number9

Posted 19 May 2004 - 08:35 AM

Thanks

nemuri!

I had always known of her, and had heard some of her songs. But I'd never bought her

music, and somehow never suspected that she was a halvsie (enough Japanese artists use weird names). This is

really cool, and I do like house and downtempo stuff, so I have renewed interest in her music now.

shukuchi47

Posted 19 May 2004 - 10:10 AM

Does

anybody know how they pick out the halvsie models in Japan.　　Do halvsies just walk around Tokyo

and they picked out by scouts? 　Do the halvsies get an interview or an audition??

Combinations??

Anton

Debi

Posted 19 May 2004 - 12:34 PM

They get scouted mostly in Tokyo. Also when I was living there, many agencies would send representatives to the military bases on "open house" day to scout for half models. You can also call up the agencies directly for an interview.

peachgirl

Posted 19 May 2004 - 03:03 PM

While I was in Japan there were a couple of halvsies on Television whom I didn't catch the name of. One was an Olympic hopefull shotputter who was HUGE and another was a blind Okinawan singer.. Didn't catch the names. Anyone?

p.s. my cousins refused to believe that Hideki Irabu is a halvsie!

nemuri

Posted 20 May 2004 - 05:05 AM

peachgirl - no idea about the shotputter, but I think the singer you're talking about might be
Tsutomu Aragaki. Mexican-American father; sings tenor.

Also, number9 - if you're looking for Monday stuff you may already own some, especially if you have any Mondo Grosso. Especially MG4 - she did vocals on Butterfly and the spoken word on Star Suite parts I through III. Glad to hear someone recognizes the name! And yeah, a lot of people don't seem to know she's a halvsie...

number9

Posted 14 June 2004 - 08:26 AM

Yano Michael - former footballing phenom, now an aspiring K-1 fighter.
http://sportsnavi.ya...spnavi-spo.html
http://www.yomiuri.c...20040610_40.htm
Ghanian mother and a Japanese father.

Marisuke

Posted 14 June 2004 - 08:32 AM

Wentz Eiji!

bd_sports

Posted 19 June 2004 - 08:20 PM

A lot of the hapa models in JPN are Brasilian or American. I have a few friends who model in Tokyo and one of them, Vivi Ohno of Brasil, was one of the most famous around 10 years ago but I don't have any fotos of her. This is her good friend Ligia Benica, also a Brasilian JapaHapa who does a lot of work and married to another JapaHapa friend of mine who is pictured w/ her:

These two girls are Brasilian "halvsies" as well, Vanessa Handa and Yuki Minakawa, this foto is not good as it was taken w/ an "antique" digicam:

Some of the agencies in Japan actually go to Sao Paulo to recruit these girls. http://www.urbanagen...els/models.html represents a lot of hapa

models/celebs but there are other agencies in Tokyo which does as well, one that comes to mind is Spacecraft.

Some, like Rie Miyazawa are recruited in Harajuku and other places in Tokyo.

bd_sports

Posted 27 June 2004 - 10:59 PM

I couldn't find any listing for Johnnie Morton and Chad Morton, two blackanese playing in the NFL and USC alums:

Johnnie, WR, KC Chiefs, formerly w/ Detroit Lions
His younger brother Chad, RB/Special Teams, Washington Redskins

bd_sports

Posted 07 July 2004 - 06:26 PM

Don Wakamatsu, bench coach for the Texas Rangers. Played w/ Barry Bonds at Arizona State, was a very good catcher and played a few games w/ Chicago White Sox before getting hurt.

yruka

Posted 27 July 2004 - 01:34 PM

i just found this forum,Barbara Mori is another halvsie, half japanese and half Uruguayan, I dont know if somebody already mentioned her.she is an actress an a model.

nadipee

Posted 27 July 2004 - 02:50 PM

sean

mackin from the band Yellowcard. theyre in the warped tour this year, and their CD, Ocean Avenue just went

platinum a few weeks ago.

bd_sports

Posted 27 July 2004 - 04:59 PM

Ally,

Your link didn't work so I'm posting Barbara Mori's foto, now that deserves some exposure,

yowza!

http://www.fulllatin...arbara_main.jpg

yruka

Posted 27 July 2004 - 06:22 PM

strange,

It was ok a couple of hours before...but here is a web site with a lot of her pics, ok Bobby this web site is

going to make you very happy! (I hope)

http://www.gabrielbl...arbara_mori.htm

bd_sports

Posted 27 July 2004 - 06:52 PM

The only way it would make me truly happy is if it had her number &/or email address!

yruka

Posted 27 July 2004 - 07:00 PM

specially now that she is divorced!!!

bd_sports

Posted 27 July 2004 - 07:07 PM

Too bad I don't speak hardly any Castellano, I wonder if she speaks Nihongo?

number9

Posted 09 August 2004 - 08:31 AM

Found a new halvsie musician!

石坂団十郎
Ishizaka Danjuro, a cello

soloist with a German mother and a Japanese father who performs around the world.

http://www.actcity.j...04/ishizaka.htm

number9

Posted 10 August 2004 - 08:56 AM

Found a former halvsie Olympian.

木下アリーシア
Alicia Yurie Kinoshita, born in Copenhagen between Danish mother and Japanese father and competed in three straight Olympics and won the silver medal at Atlanta 96 in the 470 class yacht.

http://www.matsurone...ku/sub7e-42.htm
http://www.nishinipp...oudo/cho03.html
http://www.marine.co...70fe/470fe.html

Too bad she won't be competing at Athens.

Mabuta

Posted 10 August 2004 - 09:10 AM

sou

dakedo, I already mentioned her on page 2 in this thread.

number9

Posted 10 August 2004 - 09:20 AM

Oops, my memory doesn't reach that far back

We need to make an easily viewable list of all the celebrities somewhere...

64microbus

Posted 10 August 2004 - 09:06 PM

Any chance the French/Japanese attorney in Kill Bill was actually a halvsie; she's a hottie.

Microbus out

japajew

Posted 10 August 2004 - 09:33 PM

No Julie Dreyfus actually isn't mixed...she's a French actress who often plays "gaijin" roles in Japanese movies because she's a linguist who is completely fluent in French, English, and Japanese.

ucantbmyaddiction

Posted 11 August 2004 - 11:14 AM

I feel like a kid for bringing up JOhnny's jr (even though I think most of them are quite cute)but Jimmy Mackey is half American and half Japanese. I don't think it was mentioned anywhere.

bd_sports

Posted 11 August 2004 - 11:23 AM

But she looks part Asian, must be the Jewish roots... That cutie used to teach French on NHK.

ucantbmyaddiction

Posted 11 August 2004 - 11:41 AM

Btw, do you guys ever wonder if ANY of these famous halvsies EVER visited this site? You never know! If

one of you is a secret hunky famous halvsie, get in touch! Nah I'm not that superficial. Any hunky

halvsie will do...

mai_chan

Posted 13 August 2004 - 12:28 AM

http://images.google...DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

Eddie Jones, captain of the australian rugby team, the wallabies!!.He's half japanese and married to a japanese lady!!..they're daughter, chelsey jones is obviously 3/4 japanese...Eddie even lives in the same suburb as me!!

lover

Posted 13 August 2004 - 01:13 AM

does anyone have any info on this girl. Her name is Becky and that's all I know.

She's half japanese and half what? how old is she? She looks quite young.

thanks

Nez

Posted 13 August 2004 - 02:36 AM

Mai chan, I'm not an expert of Rugby but isn't George Gregan the captain of the Wallabies?

number9

Posted 13 August 2004 - 02:44 AM

Same Becky?

http://www.sunmusic....ky/index02.html

Born in Kanagawa and she's 20. Half American probably. She's a TV celebrity in Japan doing commercials and appearing on variety shows and whatnot.

ucantbmyaddiction

Posted 13 August 2004 - 02:57 AM

I remember my mom telling me about Becky. She's actually half english, if I'm not mistaken. In a

recent interview, she said that she chose to be Japanese and she doesnt' speak a word of english and she

thinks its fine. According to my mom, she's very Ochame and cute.

Marisuke

Posted 13 August 2004 - 04:34 AM

You're right, her father is English. She has a little sister who is becomming famous too.

I thought she spoke English?

That's what my friend told me anyways...

AlexanderMinoru

Posted 13 August 2004 - 06:22 AM

Hi, excuse me when the following guy was already mentioned, but I dont want to read all the replies, and also

the following musician is one of the greatest half Japanese, I miss a Photo and a describtion of him in the

Celebrities` Forum: I speak about Mike Shinoda, Linkin Park's MC and Mastermind. Bye, may the force be with

you.

Owen

Posted 13 August 2004 - 06:52 AM

I hope this

has not been mentioned yet but have you guys heard of Rachael Yamagata? Just saw her on the tube, she's a

musician f/ Chicago. she's pretty good! figured she must be half.

mai_chan

Posted 13 August 2004 - 07:46 PM

Oops..sorry Nez..my bad!!..I mean COACH..not captain!!

bd_sports

Posted 13 August 2004 - 07:51 PM

Eddie's a cool, laidback dude. I used to work out at the gym where he had to work part-time when he was coaching in JPN, for Suntory, and I used to talk to him every time I saw him. Six months after I last saw him I read/heard he was coach of ACT and then he followed in former ACT coach's footsteps and became coach of the Wallabies. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

number9

Posted 13 August 2004 - 11:05 PM

A little late but Darvish Yu threw a shutout (and gave up no walks!) in the first round of Koshien tournament against Kitaotsu which Yu's Tohoku won 13-0 on the 9th.

http://news.fs.biglo...09-1969556.html

Next game starts real soon against Ishikawa's Yugakukan. He's already got a fan site!

http://www.geocities...h_yu/index.html

And here's an article about growing up as a really tall athletically gifted haafu.

http://www.sanspo.co...2004071003.html

bd_sports

Posted 14 August 2004 - 10:44 AM

I'm surprised to learn his arm has fallen off after throwing so many innings last year. I heard the MLB teams are
trying to sign him away from Jball. Does anyone know if his father is from Iran or is Iranian-American b'c

I think I heard that once, i.e. that his dad grew up or lived in California?

smoke

Posted 14 August 2004 - 11:36 AM

becky's kinda cute, but she's more annoying. just too loud.

number9

Posted 14 August 2004 - 02:01 PM

Devin Setoguchi of the Saskatoon Blades and the U-18 Team Canada certainly looks halvsie.

http://www.whl.ca/st...er.php?id=23177

He got an assist in the U-18 Junior World Cup semi-final win over the Americans, woot! (Not that Americans care. But hey...

http://www.hockeycan...404_canusa.html

Darvish threw another shutout, this time with 12 Ks, against a team that batted over .400 in the qualifiers. Amazing.

http://www.nikkanspo...40815-0015.html

Next game is on the 17th Tuesday against Chiba Keidai Fuzoku.

number9

Posted 16 August 2004 - 07:50 AM

Two halvsie celebrities having a shotgun wedding! (So, that means their kid will be a halvsie born into a halvsie celebrity family... trouble?)

Model (and lately actor/singer) Tsutchiya Anna is getting married to Kozue Rin's little brother and model Joshua. I didn't catch this news a couple of months ago.

She's already 7 months pregnant.

http://www.sanspo.co...2004061601.html

Marisuke

Posted 16 August 2004 - 07:54 AM

Wow.

I think Anna is so beautiful~
I wish I looked like her.

What is her 411?

MiraiZ

Posted 16 August 2004 - 07:43 PM

Okay here are the people i know of:

Yvonne Kanazawa -Olympic hurdler (I know her in person...BTW -we grew up together) She is actually half Korean, but holds Japanese citizenship like her mother.

Kaera Kimura-singer/model?? She is half English but looks more Japanese (don't know her in person though)

Risa Stegmeyer-Model/announcer -half American

Bekki -TV talent -half English

Rosa Kato- TV Talent -half Italian

Rie Miyazawa -1/4 European decendant

number9

Posted 17 August 2004 - 08:42 PM

Darvish and Tohoku lost their third round game to Chiba Keidai Fuzoku 3-1 in the 10th. Yu was shutting them down until an infield error in the 9th inning with 2 outs scored the lucky run for Chiba. Then Chiba went on to score 2 more in the 10th and won the game. Too bad.

http://sports.yahoo....0000504-yom-spo

Since he's in his last year of high school, he's a highly sought after commodity by both Japanese and American pro teams.

Yuriko

Posted 21 August 2004 - 06:55 PM

Adele Arakawa, she's a news anchor. I just stumbled across her, never seen her.
She's half.White,

half Japanese:

Here's an interview with her, she also mentions the being half-japanese.

http://www.asiaxpres...awa/adele_1.htm

Debi

Posted 21 August 2004 - 07:28 PM

Ann Curry. News anchor for NBC news, Today, and Dateline. Japanese mom and white dad.

Not sure if this will work:

http://www.gogomag.com/ac4/

bd_sports

Posted 21 August 2004 - 08:04 PM

We've got one of those in my hometown, Chera Kimiko, I'm pretty sure she's hiding her surname.

Chera Kimiko, FOX23 Anchor On FOX23 News, Chera Kimiko will give you invaluable information about the latest health concerns. From major illnesses around the world to common bugs right here in Green Country, Chera Kimiko hunts down important health stories to help keep your family well. Watch her Health Alert very weeknight on FOX 23 News.

In 2001 Chera won the Russell L. Cecil Medical Journalism Award for her story "Joints In Motion." Chera was the National Winner in the Television Category, and was honored to become the first reporter/anchor not working in a top 20 market to be granted this award by the Arthritis Foundation. The Cecil Award is given to journalists for excellence in medical journalism. Also Chera's nine o'clock newscast was nominated for a regional emmy for best newscast.

Chera studied at Richmond University in Kensington, England and later at Colorado State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts. Her journalism career began in news radio, at KHOW in Denver, Colorado, and she made the jump to television when she accepted a job at KYMA in Yuma, Arizona. After a crazy year as a brand-new reporter, Chera was hired by KTVK--the number one-rated news station in Phoenix--where she worked as a reporter for nearly three years.

In 1998 Chera was offered the opportunity to anchor, so she left the desert for the maritime breezes of the Santa Barbara area in California. And her last job before she moved to Tulsa was a two-year stint as the weekend morning anchor at KVBC in Las Vegas, where she was voted one of the top three favorite local anchors.

Chera loves to exercise and in January ran her first marathon in Orlando. She chose this event to benefit the American Stroke Association and also to honor her stepmother and grandmother, both of whom recently had strokes. Chera is also a former competitive figure skater and still loves to get on the ice.

infimum

Posted 21 August 2004 - 11:40 PM

Are people in adult business allowed to be introduced here? There are quite a few halvies, including a few Playmates

I don't know if it's good or bad, but the "exotic" looks of halvies are quite welcomed in adult entertainment, probably more so than in mainstream entartainment (media)

Nez

Posted 22 August 2004 - 12:44 AM

I don't think that "people in the adult business" should be introduced because they're not exactly role models that people can aspire to.

infimum

Posted 22 August 2004 - 01:08 AM

Well, the Playmate Lisa Marie Scott is introduced on this site

MiraiZ

Posted 22 August 2004 - 03:04 AM

Crystal Takigawa (Fuji TV announcer) French/Japanese

Maya Masai (FujiTV announcer) Mexican/Japanese

wombat777

Posted 22 August 2004 - 03:54 AM

Tsuchiya Anna and Joshu (model) are two hapa "geinojin" here in Japan that got recently married (shotgun).

http://www.sanspo.co...2004061601.html

bd_sports

Posted 22 August 2004 - 10:21 AM

Who are they?

I ran into Anna Umemiya and her former beau, the hapa dude, Ken what'shisname Haga?, the gambler, in Ebisu once. They kind a shot a glance my way like they knew I was mixed or something or maybe I had a booger or something on my shirt?

wombat777

Posted 22 August 2004 - 10:54 AM

They were both models and now the bride is an actress and also pregnant. The groom's older sister is also a "talent" as they say in Japan.

There are more hapas on TV than I can mention. Some are so minor and probably wont get a break, also a lot of models in the fashion magazines too!

random hapa "talent" stuff

http://www.ft-shisei...eeze/index.html

http://www.sanspo.co...a/b_bekki2.html

http://pochi74.hp.in.. .jp/yousei02.htm

http://www12.ocn.ne....i/yousei02.html

http://j-star.e-city...oline_yoko.html

AshesofAmericanflags

Posted 22 August 2004 - 12:32 PM

Hell Nez, if i could do that and get paid for it. I would.

Dejitancha

Posted 05 September 2004 - 05:01 AM

Minor celebrities~?

Erica Oshiro & Luna

http://www.diamantes...ies/profile.htm

I don't keep up with J-pop so I don't know how popular she is but Angelina Esparza

http://www.sus81.com/angelina/

I personally liked the song she did with DJ Krush. I think it was called "Truthspeaking"?

**On a different note, Issa from Da Pump was 1/4 white I think...

Raiden

Posted 08 September 2004 - 09:09 PM

AHHH!!! I was just gonna mention Crystal from FUJITV until SOMEONE already introduced

her!!!! Man, beaten to it, but yeah, I stayed up way late watching the news one time and was

blown away to see her.... Born in 1977, it can work out right? With me and HER??!!

MY gf, oh believe it!

Also, as a sidenote, did you know Olivia Hussey from Romeo and Juliet (1968 version) married a Japanese guy? She even did CMs in Japanaland back in the day..... I wonder if they ever had kids? Does anyone know? Probably nobody cares.

Mabuta

Posted 08 September 2004 - 11:55 PM

QUOTE

Also, as a sidenote, did you know Olivia Hussey from Romeo and Juliet (1968

version) married a Japanese guy? She even did CMs in Japanaland back in the day..... I wonder if they ever had

kids? Does anyone know? Probably nobody cares.

I love that film!!

It's great!

What is a youth? Impetuous fire.
What is a maid? Ice and desire.
The world

wags on.

A rose will bloom
It then will fade
So does a youth.
So does the fairest maid.

Apparently, Olivia Hussey was married to the singer Akira Fuse and they have a son, Max, who was born in

1983. I don't know if her youngest child, India Joy, is from the same marriage.

number9

Posted 12 September 2004 - 10:57 PM

Saw Rachel Yamagata perform a few songs live at the HMV Shibuya on Sunday, that was a pretty cool thing to run into.

She's all Lilith Fair-like, so the music's not my cup of tea when recorded, but is pretty nice when performed live. I was tempted to shout something hapa/halvsie-ish as the audience was only about 100 people, but restrained myself

http://www.rachaelyamagata.com/

hansamu

Posted 12 September 2004 - 11:03 PM

QUOTE

Saw Rachel Yamagata perform a few songs live at the HMV Shibuya on Sunday, that was a pretty cool thing to run into. She's all Lilith Fair-like, so the music's not my cup of tea when recorded, but is pretty nice when performed live. I was tempted to shout something hapa/halvsie-ish as the audience was only about 100 people, but restrained myself
http://www.rachaelyamagata.com/

speaking of which i read an article about her i think in GQ(i dont know i was bored).

AND ON the point of restraining yourself

--whats with the new trend of hecklers during campaign speaches. That would have been funny #9 if you heckled on behalf of the website.

what would you say anyways:

"HALF JAPANESE

RULE...YAH....BOOYAH..." people start booing.....

number9

Posted 12 September 2004 - 11:06 PM

Yeah, I couldn't think of anything clever and short to say that would be easily understood. She looks much better on her album cover though (not that it matters much because she's a singer-songwriter, not a pop star), wonders of Photoshop magic, probably

Mabuta

Posted 13 September 2004 - 02:58 AM

Alan Gilbert, Japanese-American halvsie, is the chief conductor and artistic adviser of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

They're going on tour to Japan starting September 23rd: two concerts in Suntory Hall, Tokyo and they will also do guest appearances in Yokohama, Nagano, Sapporo, Toyama, Toyota and Kyoto.

bd_sports

Posted 13 September 2004 - 04:16 PM

I'm too lazy to go through all the pages of this thread, but there's a famous haafu female violinist, forgot her name. She's cute too, or was when I saw her foto in JPN about 10 years ago...

yuukiariel

Posted 13 September 2004 - 06:39 PM

Has anyone heard of "Chris"? (last name Sasaki) http://www.chris2003.com/
His first full album is due out the end of this month but he does a lot of live shows around Tokyo. He even opened for Ludacris when he was in Japan.
He's actually an acquaintance of mine because he's also in this freestyle basketball performance group that sometimes performs at the half-time of our games.

http://www.fareastba...s.com/news.html

If any of you halvsies in Tokyo like hip-hop or basketball you should check him out sometime!

gen

Posted 13 September 2004 - 06:43 PM

I always smile a little bit at email addresses and website urls that have year numbers in them.

They're only relevant for one year!

infimum

Posted 26 September 2004 - 10:23 PM

Name:

Barbara Mori Ochoa
Date of Birth: February 2, 1978
City: Montevideo
Country: Uruguay
Siblings: older

sister, Kenia Mori (actress), and brother Kintaro Mori
Marital status: divorced
Ex-spouse: Sergio Mayer,

actor
Children: son Sergio Mayer Mori
Height: 168 cm
Occupation:

actress

FILMOGRAPHY:

"Ruby" (2004) Telenovela .... Ruby
"Amor Descarado"

(2003) Telenovela .... Fernanda Lira
"Mirada de mujer: El Regreso" (2003) Telenovela .... Monica

San Mill�n
"Sabete a mi moto" (2002) Telenovela .... Nelly
Inspiracion (2001) Movie ....

Alejandra
"Amores querer con alevos�a" (2001) Telenovela .... Carolina Morales
"Me muero

por t�" (1999) Telenovela .... Santa
"Azul tequila" (1998) Telenovela .... Azul
"Al

norte del coraz�n" (1997) Telenovela
"Mirada de mujer" (1997) Telenovela .... M�nica San

Mill�n

What a babe!

Need I say more ?

TRACKGIRL

Posted 28 September 2004 - 09:07 PM

FYI...you spelled a name wrong back in December 2003 as an additional Halvsie celebrity.
Ivonne Kanazawa is actually spelled YVONNE KANAZAWA...
the reason why I know is because this is me...
Common mistake.
And by the way I ran much longer than the 1990's...you make me feel old.
1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.

Marisuke

Posted 29 September 2004 - 05:15 AM

What about Sowelu?
Is she Japanese?

hudsonhawk

Posted 29 September 2004 - 09:43 PM

I'm not sure if we are only talking about half japanese celebrities, but has anyone mentioned Tata Young?

She's a really big Thailand pop singer whose half Thai/half American.

I must toot my own horn here. I found out about her because I'm a back up dancer in her music videos being filmed here in Japan.

number9

Posted 29 September 2004 - 11:10 PM

Wow neat.

Why does she shoot some music videos in Japan? Kinda like the Beasties' Intergalactic video, I guess..

hudsonhawk

Posted 04 October 2004 - 07:35 PM

QUOTE

Wow neat. Why does she shoot some music videos in Japan? Kinda like the Beasties' Intergalactic video, I guess..

Actually she's releasing new videos of her old songs just for Japan. She's huge in other Asian countries, but no one has heard of her here.

And now must put away my own horn because I was replaced by another dancer for the videos. So nobody buy her album please.

Bitter, cynical, old man

Marisuke

Posted 04 October 2004 - 08:19 PM

Are the girls from BEENIE K halvsie?

number9

Posted 04 October 2004 - 08:23 PM

Thai star breaking into the Japanese market might be even more difficult than Utada breaking into the US market.

Japan's already got a super saturated pop music market and CD sales are declining...

Are you getting slow old man, can't bust a move anymore?

hudsonhawk

Posted 04 October 2004 - 08:29 PM

QUOTE

Are you getting slow old man, can't bust a move anymore?

That's cold.

Only I'm allowed to say that I'm old.

Actually the funny thing is, my replacement is almost 10 years older than me.

Nez

Posted 13 October 2004 - 06:49 PM

QUOTE

(danielyuki @ Oct 14 2004, 10:32 AM)
I always thought it was funny that my friend, who's half Spanish and Japanese but grew up in London, would always lose arguments with her mum because they would start in English and end up in Japanese. Of course she couldn't beat her mum in an argument in Japanese.

w00t, you know a Spanish Halvsie Girl??!

Was she hot?

danielyuki

Posted 13 October 2004 - 06:59 PM

QUOTE(Nez @ Oct 14 2004, 11:49 AM)

QUOTE(danielyuki @ Oct 14 2004, 10:32 AM)

friend, who's half Spanish and Japanese but grew up in London, would always lose arguments with her mum
because they would start in English and end up in Japanese. Of course she couldn't beat her mum in an
argument in Japanese.

w00t, you know a Spanish Halvsie Girl??!

Was she hot?

Err, yes. My Osananajimi friends Maya&Mina (who I haven't seen/spoken to for maybe a decade

Maya is a (semi) celebrity

QUOTE(danielyuki @ Sep 21 2004, 03:01 AM)

Shiiiit I should BIG UP my Osananajimi (friend from Childhood),
Maya Hoshino

She's starred in a few action movies here in Japan and she is currently starring in....

Gransazers!

Kind of like the Power Rangers! I was so shocked when I woke up early at the weekend and so my friend running around with guys in Spandex

Demo yappa kawaii na Maya wa

Ganbatte!

Nez

Posted 13 October 2004 - 07:47 PM

I downloaded

one episode of Gransazers last year. Damn, I think I'm going to have to watch the whole series now. The

thought of a Spanish Halvsie girl running around in a spandex outfit is very appealing.

Nez

Posted 13 October 2004 - 08:49 PM

I had the

Gransazer file backed up on a DVD so I decided to watch it. Maya Hoshino made an appearance in it! She was

wearing a really skimpy little outfit and then she did the whole henshin thing and turned into a

Gransazer. I remember watching this the first time and thinking that she (Maya) didn't quite look Japanese.

That was before I discovered Halvsie.com

Below is a screen cap I made.

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yruka

Posted 13 October 2004 - 09:07 PM

This

thread is too long to search if he is already mentioned, what about David Ono the anchorman in ABC news, I think

he is half Japanese half American

http://abclocal.go.c...o_davidono.html

David Ono

http://sundial.csun.....gutierrez.html

Ono

http://www.active.co...m?story_id=7351

He also swims

danielyuki

Posted 13 October 2004 - 09:59 PM

QUOTE

I had the Gransazer file backed up on a DVD so I decided to watch it. Maya Hoshino made an appearance in it! She was wearing a really skimpy little outfit and then she did the whole henshin thing and turned into a Gransazer. I remember watching this the first time and thinking that she (Maya) didn't quite look Japanese. That was before I discovered Halvsie.com

Below is a screen cap I made.

Woah, that's her alright!

I met George Williams again in Tamagawa station yesterday.

He's had a baby with his (haafu I think) wife. Difficult to say whether his daughter looks Japanese or western, too young.

kristina

Posted 13 October 2004 - 09:59 PM

QUOTE

(yruka @ Oct 13 2004, 10:07 PM)

This thread is too long to search if he is already mentioned, what about David Ono the anchorman in ABC news, I think he is half Japanese half American

god, i love david ono.

he's so fooookin handsome.

number9

Posted 13 October 2004 - 10:29 PM

Whoa, thanks Nez, Maya's awesome!

danielyuki

Posted 21 October 2004 - 12:08 AM

Aki Izumi?

I came across her because she had breast cancer and survived (reading something for ork)

http://www.os.rim.or...eadery/ran5.jpg

http://www.inspiuser...194_200x198.jpg

Definitely a haafu

bd_sports

Posted 21 October 2004 - 12:18 AM

QUOTE

(danielyuki @ Oct 13 2004, 07:59 PM
QUOTE

(Nez @ Oct 14 2004, 04:49 AM)
I had the Gransazer file backed up on a DVD so I decided to watch it. Maya Hoshino made an appearance in it! She was wearing a really skimpy little outfit and then she did the whole henshin thing and turned into a Gransazer. I remember watching this the first time and thinking that she (Maya) didn't quite look Japanese. That was before I discovered Halvsie.com

Below is a screen cap I made.

Woah, that's her alright!

I met George Williams again in

Tamagawa station yesterday.

He's had a baby with his (haafu I think) wife. Difficult to say whether his daughter looks Japanese or western, too young.

That dude used to live in Komazawa and I'd see at the video store at times, and back in those days he was dating a white girl.

yuichituba

Posted 21 October 2004 - 01:08 AM

Check the "Wala'te iitomo" dancers, Iwan and John. And just as a side note, I'm friends with

Johnny so if you want his sign, I'll hook you up

danielyuki

Posted 21 October 2004 - 01:12 AM

QUOTE

(hapaJapa @ Oct 21 2004, 09:08

AM) Check the "Wala'te iitomo" dancers, Iwan and John. And just as a side note, I'm friends with Johnny so if you want his sign, I'll hook you up

hehh,

I saw Ivan outside Don Quixote's in Roppongi drinking out of a can of beer, naughty boy. Nobody recognised him. Ivan kind of looks like Sam (Wombat) in this pic.

samuraifiction

Posted 21 October 2004 - 05:52 AM

i met thane camus (karakuri's funniest english) one time at haus ten bosch in nagasaki. he was eating a burrito and watching a mariachi band. he's really tall.

kai

Posted 23 October 2004 - 12:18 AM

This gorgeous halvsie is really taking off...

http://www.japanese.co.jp/anna/

sorry, but it should be j a p and not japanese on the link..this site seems to autmatically change j a p into japanese ..anyway, the site is lovely and worth checking out! Or if you do a surf for anna tsuchiya the link should come up

MiraiZ

Posted 23 October 2004 - 12:22 AM

Kai your link is invalid...

hansamu

Posted 23 October 2004 - 12:23 AM

i remember saying happy birthday to someone named eric tsuchiya? i think...are they brother sister?

kai

Posted 23 October 2004 - 01:39 AM

Rosa(model) Italian/Japanese

http://www.cara-rosa.com/

American/Japanese Anna Tsuchiya( model/tv talento/singer) married to a half Japanese/Brazilian model called Josh whos sister Kozue Rin is also a talento!!!

Sowelu( J pop singer)..one quarter Irish

kai

Posted 24 October 2004 - 06:36 AM

Monday Michiru is an outstanding talent. Her mother is a Japanese musician and father an American musician.Her voice is amazing. She was born in Tokyo and resides in New York. Perhaps this post should be in the celebrity forum but I'm not sure how to post it there! Her link is:

http://www.mondaymichiru.com/

Also The American/Japanese model Anna Tsuchiya is the Japnese Kate Moss eqiuvalent!!

http://www.japanese.co.jp/anna/

This site will not link as it will convert into JAPANESE instead of j a p auotomatcially on this site. Very muri!!! You need to type in j a p without the spaces or do a search for her..ie http://www.j a p .co.jp/anna/ Well worth checking out as she has been huge in Japan for years and is slowly taking off internationally..I have met her twice in person as she is really captivating!!!

Enjoy!!
Kai

MiraiZ

Posted 24 October 2004 - 06:46 AM

Kai ..I moved your post again...next time just simply open this thread and click "add reply" at the bottom of the page...

thanx

yuichituba

Posted 24 October 2004 - 08:47 AM

Don't forget Olivia. Sadly, she's not making it big at all having that freakin' druggy as a producer. I remember seeing her at this highschool music festival from a far and I was like "DAYNG, she's cute!" I was friends with her sister Caroline though. She has more Japanese eyes but still cute.

Posted Image

Also, this guy needs to get some attention too from the classical world. His name is Brian Asawa and he's one of the top leading counter-tenors in the world. His voice is unlike any other typical counter-tenor's voice and is rich and full. He grew up in southern California and now he's all around Europe because he's sought after constantly by many opera companies.

danielyuki

Posted 24 October 2004 - 05:12 PM

John 健 Nuzzo

Saw this guy in the paper this morning. He has some concerts coming up in Japan soon.

bd_sports

Posted 25 October 2004 - 12:28 AM

I know

John, he's a St. Mary's OB, very nice guy! Glad to see he's made it, I heard he had an amazing

voice...

danielyuki

Posted 25 October 2004 - 12:55 AM

Do you

know everybody?!

I play hoops at St Mary's occasionally. I see a guy there called Ed. Do you know him?

http://swiss-archite...dsuzuki_pp1.jpg

Ed Suzuki, an architect. I only know this because I read about him in the paper and I thought, I know this guy!!

dward Suzuki Associates

He's a haafu too right?
He kind of looks like a famous movie villain in real life.
Not a bad ball player too considering he's about 40 years older than me!

bd_sports

Posted 25 October 2004 - 08:19 AM

When did you start playing hoops out there, Daniel? Matter of fact I do know Ed, not well, but we've spoken. I used to go out and play on Sundays too, but it's been a while.

Some of my homeskillets out there are Chris (half black/Chinese dude who runs the floor and jumps well), Bob Sato, Steve (dude from Iowa, short, probably plays point) and some other guys who don't go out so much, e.g. Tai Katoh.

Just remember Ed loves the baseline jumpers.

He'll never pass one up if he's out there.

yuichituba

Posted 25 October 2004 - 10:35 AM

hehe, homeskillet...

bd_sports

Posted 25 October 2004 - 10:35 PM

danielyuki

Posted 26 October 2004 - 11:15 PM

Oh yeah, Nez. I forgot to say that her "other" name is Maya Martinez

Your Name is Martinez right Nez?

Nez

Posted 27 October 2004 - 12:32 AM

I guess there would be no issues about name changes if we got married.

bd_sports

Posted 28 October 2004 - 08:36 AM

I'm gonna catch some crap but I know those two too. James Hattori is Nikkei, i.e. 100% Jpnse, Dalton is half Korean. He is running again for some political office to represent Hawai'i.

saki-girl

Posted 29 October 2004 - 12:10 AM

Wow, where did you get to meet them, if I may ask? I was convinced that Hattori was halvsie because of his strong American accent. He also looks a little like Nez, doesn't he?

Marisuke

Posted 29 October 2004 - 04:50 AM

Yes Akita Schubert is definetly half dane.

She works for CNN's Tokyo beaureau.

bd_sports

Posted 29 October 2004 - 05:28 AM

They are actually both good friends of a close friend of mine. And both used to work in Tokyo, Hattori as CBS's correspondent and Dalton was doing a news show on NHK, and former CNN correspondent May Lee was on that show, as was current CNN reporter Fred Katayama.

But no, if you meet James Hattori you will be able to tell he's 100% Jpnse. He's very tall though, about 6'3" I guess...

bd_sports

Posted 29 October 2004 - 06:14 PM

Don't go to the Left Coast, you'll be confused left, right and center.

I thought Fred was doing that business segment on CNN, it's during the afternoon?

Intellectuals? Maybe a couple but those are the ones I can't relate to for some reason.

saki-girl

Posted 30 October 2004 - 03:52 PM

You're right, he does do the Business News....shows how much I watch CNN

MiraiZ

Posted 31 October 2004 - 03:16 AM

what about Roland Gift from the Fine Young Canibals...isn't he hapa?

http://www.dsv.su.se...fyc/roland1.jpg

danielyuki

Posted 31 October 2004 - 03:39 AM

Is he?! I'd never even considered that he might be half asian, but now you mention it, it looks quite possible!

Nez

Posted 31 October 2004 - 03:47 AM

If he's the kind cannibal that likes to eat children, I'd say the odds are pretty good.

number9

Posted 09 January 2005 - 02:08 AM

Martin Tetsuya Kariya, little brother of Paul, one year out of university, has signed with the Nikko Ice Bucks of the Asia League. He already scored a goal in his first game and has 5 points (2G 3A) in four games!

6 of the 8 Asian League teams, including Nikko, will be at Yoyogi on the 15th and 16th of January for a series of
games. It should be good, and I'm going.

Kariya brothers, Steve, Paul, and Martin (from left to right).

number9

Posted 09 January 2005 - 02:08 AM

As mentioned in Saren's blog, Darvish Yu and Michael Nakamura signed with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, making it a rotation with two halvsies!

SWC

Posted 09 January 2005 - 02:20 AM

Roland Gift , lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals is half black and half white.

bd_sports

Posted 09 January 2005 - 02:36 PM

Looks to me like the black side had a little Native American or Chinese mixed in there.

This is pretty hilarious, many blacks in America are part N.A., the thing to do might be to point out the ones who aren't part white &/or Native American.

shimura-ken

Posted 09 January 2005 - 07:17 PM

anyone ever heard of this old school group called Golden Half?

bd_sports

Posted 09 January 2005 - 11:13 PM

Wow, the pioneers!

Sho Geist

Posted 09 January 2005 - 11:44 PM

omg! that's so terrible!

hahahahahah

danielyuki

Posted 13 January 2005 - 12:36 AM

Have we had Christel Takigawa on here?
She's half French.

She's a news caster on FNN

http://www.fujitv.co.jp/nj/index.html

I think she's great! She doesn't have the air headed, "oh main caster, please tell me everything coz I'm dumb" look and actually contributes to discussions.

number9

Posted 13 January 2005 - 12:40 AM

But she sounds like just another air headed caster.. or maybe that's the part she has to play in order to do her job..

danielyuki

Posted 13 January 2005 - 12:41 AM

sokana?

bd_sports

Posted 13 January 2005 - 01:35 AM

It's acting, er the director who tells people how to act. I don't mind looking at her.

danielyuki

Posted 13 January 2005 - 04:35 PM

I've seen this guy Jun several times around Tokyo recently.

Once in a cafe in Naka-Meguro and again in Ebisu station.

Both times we looked each other right in the eye

I'm convinced that he could recognise that I was a haafu too.

his agency's HP

shimura-ken

Posted 13 January 2005 - 04:40 PM

I know i've seen him in a shitload of fashion mags in Japan. there was another haafu model I used to see at Sophia on occasion. I only recognized him because of some of the street fashion mags I'd look through.

Posted 13 January 2005 - 05:20 PM

that's the one and only definately good looking half japanese guy i've ever seen. then again i don't really like that type of body , slap some lipstick on him and he looks like a crack whore

danielyuki

Posted 13 January 2005 - 05:23 PM

Indeed. Most of them are slightly taller than me but 10kg lighter... surely that's not good. (or maybe I'm overweight

But then Davide is a whole suitcase lighter than me

shimura-ken

Posted 13 January 2005 - 05:26 PM

QUOTE

(umeboshi @ Jan 13 2005, 07:20 PM)
that's the one and only definately good looking half japanese guy i've ever seen. then again i don't really like that type of body , slap some lipstick on him and he looks like a
crack whore

I know you're a secret chunky lover. you like the idea of being able to stick your finger in a man's belly button and have it disappear up to your knuckle.

Posted 13 January 2005 - 05:30 PM

im not into the toothpick look on guys especially when they don't have a good face to balance the hideousness a little. and the painted red nails.. jeez .
his face is cute but he needs to get in touch with his male hormones if he has any left indeed. those red socks don't say much either

hahaha pinto-ken you figured me out. gimme a call when you put on an xtra 200 pounds baby

Marisuke

Posted 13 January 2005 - 05:34 PM

QUOTE

(umeboshi @ Jan 13 2005, 09:30 PM)
im not into the toothpick look on guys especially when they don't have a good face to balance the hideousness a little. and the painted red nails.. jeez .his face is cute but he needs to get in touch with his male hormones if he has any left indeed.those red socks don't say much either

hahaha pinto-ken you figured me out. gimme a call when you put on an xtra 200

pounds baby

this made me laugh. umeboshi your posts crack me up.

bd_sports

Posted 13 January 2005 - 06:01 PM

QUOTE

(danielyuki @ Jan 13 2005, 02:35 PM)

I've seen this guy Jun several times around Tokyo recently.

Once in a cafe in Naka-Meguro and again in Ebisu station.

Both times we looked each other right in the eye:blink:

I'm convinced that he could recognise that I was a haafu too.

Dude, I think he's gay and looked at you and thought 'wow'!

bd_sports

Posted 13 January 2005 - 06:03 PM

QUOTE

that's the one and only definately good looking half japanese guy i've

ever seen. then again i don't really like that type of body , slap some lipstick on him and he looks like a

crack whore

Dudes, are we going to let her get away with that, I say we head to NYC and spank her.

number9

Posted 13 January 2005 - 06:07 PM

My God, most Japanese men must be gay!

bd_sports

Posted 13 January 2005 - 06:12 PM

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2005, 11:01 AM)

Dude, I think he's gay and looked at you

and thought 'wow'!

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My God, most Japanese men must be gay!

I thought he was half?

danielyuki

Posted 13 January 2005 - 06:19 PM

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QUOTE (bd_sports @ Jan 14 2005, 11:01 AM)

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QUOTE (danielyuki @ Jan

13 2005, 02:35 PM)

I've seen this guy Jun several times

around Tokyo recently.

Once in a cafe in Naka-Meguro and again in Ebisu station.

Both times we

looked each other right in the eye

I'm convinced that he could recognise that I was a haafu

too.[/quote]

Dude, I think he's gay

and looked at you and thought 'wow'!

Well he was actually with a reaaally hot girl... he was probably giving me a warning of

some sort

bd_sports

Posted 13 January 2005 - 06:21 PM

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QUOTE (bd_sports @ Jan 14

2005, 11:01 AM)

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QUOTE (danielyuki @ Jan 13 2005, 02:35 PM)

id='QUOTE'> I've seen this guy Jun several times around Tokyo recently.

Once in a

cafe in Naka-Meguro and again in Ebisu station.

Both times we looked each other right in the eye

I'm convinced that he could recognise

that I was a haafu too.[/quote]

Dude, I

think he's gay and looked at you and thought 'wow'!

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Well he was actually with a reaaally hot girl... he was probably giving

me a warning of some sort

You mean as in she's just camoflage,

don't worry about her, and oh I really like you?

Davide

Posted 14 January 2005 - 03:55 AM

Most

fashion models in japan seem to be haafu. I heard that model agencies hang around international schools to look

for potential haafu models.

Some old haafu school friends were pretty famous models in the 90's.

Anyone here heard of Ewan or Angela?? I can't find a picture of him but Ewan was big during the mid to late

90's.

bd_sports

Posted 14 January 2005 - 04:58 AM

No, but

if you post a foto or two, maybe. Couple of my friends, Brasilian hapas, modeled in the 90s and still do.

Viviane Ono and Ligia Benica.

Vivi
Ligia -

some of you met her

Hey, they gotta a half-Chinese/half-Italiana on there:
href='http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/model/92/' target='_blank'>Karine Chu

That same agency reps
href='http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/hiroko/' target='_blank'>Hiroko Grace who was big in the 90s.

Davide

Posted 14 January 2005 - 07:40 AM

Not a

great picture but here is one of

Ewan.

Karine Chu doesn't look very Italian ne.

bd_sports

Posted 14 January 2005 - 07:53 AM

Naw,

how much has Ewan aged?

Yeah, I hear ya, can't see

the paisana in Karine, maybe it's a faux hapa, for propaganda sake?

danielyuki

Posted 16 January 2005 - 07:32 AM

I think

this sumo wrestler, Terao, is a quarter.

He was on TV recently and his mum looked very haafu.

number9

Posted 16 January 2005 - 10:13 AM

My

favourite former rikishi, very otoko-mae and popular with the ladies

bd_sports

Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:13 PM

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QUOTE (danielyuki @ Jan 17 2005, 12:32 AM)

id='QUOTE'> I think this sumo wrestler, Terao, is a quarter.

He was on TV recently and his mum looked very haafu.

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For real? I always liked Terao, b'c he was undersized and had

"fighting spirit."

kristina

Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:29 PM

for a

sumo dood, he's cute!

bd_sports

Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:36 PM

By the

way, Sentoryu aka Henry Miller, is a former sumo

rikishi and blackanese from St. Lowie.

danielyuki

Posted 16 January 2005 - 05:17 PM

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QUOTE (number9 @ Jan 17 2005, 03:13 AM)

id='QUOTE'> My favourite former rikishi, very otoko-mae and popular with the ladies

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Well I think we can claim him for our own

Honorary Halvsie

bd_sports

Posted 16 January 2005 - 05:26 PM

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QUOTE (danielyuki @ Jan 17 2005, 10:17 AM)

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QUOTE (number9 @ Jan 17

2005, 03:13 AM)

My favourite former rikishi, very otoko-mae and

popular with the ladies

[/quote]
Well I think we can claim him for

our own

Honorary Halvsie

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Technically isn't he a "quartersie"?

danielyuki

Posted 16 January 2005 - 05:34 PM

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QUOTE (bd_sports @ Jan 17 2005, 10:26

AM)

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Jan 17 2005, 10:17 AM)

id='QUOTE'>Well I think we can claim him for our own

Honorary Halvsie

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Technically isn't he a "quartersie"?

class='postcolor'>

And you're a pedanticsie

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:34 PM

anyone

ever heard of Niko? she's a new artist on the Grand Central Records label outta England. I believe she's 1/2 Japanese, 1/2 Spanish.

Marisuke

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:45 PM

中山エミリ
is she half?

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:50 PM

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QUOTE (Marisuke @ Jan 17 2005, 09:45 PM)

id='QUOTE'> 中山エミリ
is she half?

she looks half. doesn't she do a lot of make-up commercials in Japan?

Marisuke

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:51 PM

Yep
she is on the CM where she talks about the product to remove make-up

She was on a lot of variety

shows as the host this winter too.

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:54 PM

I

assumed エミリ was the same as Emily. Isn't there a bio for her somewhere?

SWC

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:55 PM

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QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 07:34

PM)

anyone ever heard of Niko? she's a new artist on the
href='http://www.grandcentralrecords.co.uk' target='_blank'>Grand Central Records label outta England. I

believe she's 1/2 Japanese, 1/2 Spanish.

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I think I just saw a video of her's on MTV late at night once. I

think it was her...she was wearing a Dragon design embroidered black nylon looking jacket and was walking around

near a children's playground in her video...I think it was her...it looked like her at least.

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:57 PM

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QUOTE (SWC @ Jan 17 2005, 09:55 PM)

id='QUOTE'> I think I just saw a video of her's on MTV late at night once. I think it

was her...she was wearing a Dragon design embroidered black nylon looking jacket and ws walking around near a

childrens playground in her video...I think it was her...it looked like her at least.

was her music a mix of hip hop/RnB? I wonder if

MTV plays her music? Grand Central isn't that well known in the US so I wonder if she's popular in

Japan?

Marisuke

Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:00 PM

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QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 11:54

PM)

I assumed エミリ was the same as Emily.

Isn't there a bio for her somewhere?

What do you mean...?

I don't know... you cannot really assume because my friend

who is pure Japanese has the name エミリ also.

SWC

Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:17 PM

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QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 07:57

PM)

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QUOTE (SWC @

Jan 17 2005, 09:55 PM)

I think I just saw a video of her's

on MTV late at night once. I think it was her...she was wearing a Dragon design embroidered black nylon looking

jacket and ws walking around near a childrens playground in her video...I think it was her...it looked like her

at least. [/quote]
was her music a mix of

hip hop/RnB? I wonder if MTV plays her music? Grand Central isn't that well known in the US so I wonder if

she's popular in Japan?

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Shimura-Ken it sounded like a mixture of that...but I just tried looking

up nico+mtv on the internet and I couldn't find any thing about her. Maybe the girl I saw was someone else.

You would think it would be easier to find information on her if she had an international hit single/video shown

on MTV. To tell you the truth now...i'm not sure if the girl I did see on MTV was Nico. I'll let you

know if I see the video again.

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:45 PM

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(shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 11:54 PM)

I assumed

エミリ was the same as Emily. Isn't there a bio for her somewhere?

[/quote]
What do you mean...?

I

don't know... you cannot really assume because my friend who is pure Japanese has the name

エミリ also. [/quote]

but エミリ does sound like Emily. she does look haafu, no?

Marisuke

Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:49 PM

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QUOTE

(shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 11:54 PM)

I assumed

エミリ was the same as Emily. Isn't there a bio for her somewhere?

[/quote]
What do you mean...?

I

don't know... you cannot really assume because my friend who is pure Japanese has the name

エミリ also. [/quote]
but

エミリ does sound like Emily. she does look haafu, no?

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Yeah.. but I have really bad half-dar. I sometimes think random people

are half when they're full Japanese or some Caucasian has Asian blood...

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:03 PM

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QUOTE (Marisuke @ Jan 17 2005, 10:49 PM)

id='QUOTE'>
Yeah.. but I have really bad half-dar. I sometimes think random people are

half when they're full Japanese or some Caucasian has Asian blood...

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all of us have bad half-dar. some haafu are just more obvious than

others. who knows? this エミリ girl could very well be full-blooded Japanese.

yuichituba

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:07 PM

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QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 07:03

PM)

all of us have bad half-dar. some haafu are just more

obvious than others. who knows? this ??? girl could very well be full-blooded Japanese.

No, she's half Japanese. Her blood-related

father is Steven Seagal. Him and Emily's mom divorced though. But explains Steven Seagal's martial

arts background and very proficient Kansai-ben Japanese. He's been on T.V. a few times too.

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:11 PM

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QUOTE (yuichituba @ Jan 17 2005, 11:07 PM)

id='QUOTE'> No, she's half Japanese. Her blood-related father is Steven Seagal. Him

and Emily's mom divorced though. But explains Steven Seagal's martial arts background and very

proficient Kansai-ben Japanese. He's been on T.V. a few times too.

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that's Steven Seagal's daughter? damn. I knew he used to have

a Japanese wife but I didn't know that was his daughter.

Marisuke

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:15 PM

マジで？
ビビった！

I wonder what Steven Segal

is?

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:20 PM

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QUOTE (Marisuke @ Jan 17 2005, 11:15 PM)

id='QUOTE'> I wonder what Steven Segal is?

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an asshole?

yuichituba

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:23 PM

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QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 07:20

PM)

an asshole?

[/quote]

hahaha, probably. With all the onna's that want to yalu him he probably uwaki like crazy.

shimura-ken

Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:27 PM

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QUOTE

(shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 07:20 PM)

an

asshole?

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hahaha, probably. With all the onna's that want to yalu him he

probably uwaki like crazy. [/quote]
no

really, he is an asshole. I saw some tv show in Japan awhile back and there was some girl who was obsessed with

Brad Pitt. so, they somehow managed to get in touch with Steve Segal and because of his Hollywood connections he

told the girl he would relay her message to Brad Pitt. he then proceeded to talk about how small her boobs were

and finding other faults to make fun of her with.

bd_sports

Posted 17 January 2005 - 11:08 PM

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QUOTE (yuichituba @ Jan 18 2005, 02:07 PM)

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QUOTE

(shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 07:03 PM)

all of us have

bad half-dar. some haafu are just more obvious than others. who knows? this ??? girl could very well be

full-blooded Japanese. [/quote]
No,

she's half Japanese. Her blood-related father is Steven Seagal. Him and Emily's mom divorced though.

But explains Steven Seagal's martial arts background and very proficient Kansai-ben Japanese. He's been

on T.V. a few times too. [/quote]
No,

she's not Stephen Segal's daughter. I forgot the daughter's name but that's not her, Emily is

1/4 gaijin. I forgot the daugher's name, but his ex-wife is Miyako Fujitani and she has an aikido dojo in

Osaka, and yes, the daughter is a geinojin but I'm pretty sure it's not Emily, b'c she would use

Fujitani, deshoo?

bd_sports

Posted 17 January 2005 - 11:12 PM

SS's daughter's name is Ayako Fujitani:

href='http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:FCK0AVCXdHsJ:www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D10283+S

teven+Segal% 2BJapanese+daughter&hl=en' target='_blank'>You gotta Google it!

href='http://imdb.com/name/nm0297858/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9QXlha28gRnVqaXRhbm

l8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u; fc=1;ft=3' target='_blank'>imdb.com ref

danielyuki

Posted 17 January 2005 - 11:15 PM

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QUOTE (bd_sports @ Jan 18 2005, 04:12

PM)

SS's daughter's name is Ayako Fujitani:

href='http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:FCK0AVCXdHsJ:www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D10283+S

teven+Segal% 2BJapanese+daughter&hl=en' target='_blank'>You gotta Google it!

href='http://imdb.com/name/nm0297858/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9QXlha28gRnVqaXRhbm

l8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u; fc=1;ft=3' target='_blank'>imdb.com ref

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Sister of Kentaro Seagal

yuichituba

Posted 18 January 2005 - 12:36 AM

oh, my

bad. My mom swore it was his daughter so I was like okaaaaaaay. Thanks for the info, Bobby-san. But

that's jacked how he IS a real a-hole. A-holes shouldn't reproduce.

bd_sports

Posted 18 January 2005 - 02:46 AM

No worries, mate. Now we just have to figure out what Emily or is it Emiry's?

deal is. I heard one of her parents is half... She doesn't look

straight-up hapa.

number9

Posted 18 January 2005 - 03:15 AM

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QUOTE (bd_sports @ Jan 18 2005, 07:46 PM)

id='QUOTE'> No worries, mate. Now we just have to figure out what Emily or is it

Emiry's?

deal is. I heard one of her parents is

half... She doesn't look straight-up hapa.

It doesn't matter as much as the fact that she's cute

bd_sports

Posted 18 January 2005 - 03:48 AM

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QUOTE (bd_sports @ Jan 18

2005, 07:46 PM)

No worries, mate. Now we just have to

figure out what Emily or is it Emiry's?

deal is. I heard one of her parents is half... She doesn't

look straight-up hapa. [/quote]
It

doesn't matter as much as the fact that she's cute

Confessions are in another thread my son.

SWC

Posted 18 January 2005 - 02:54 PM

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QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Jan 17 2005, 09:20

PM)

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QUOTE (Marisuke @ Jan 17 2005, 11:15 PM)

id='QUOTE'> I wonder what Steven Segal is?

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an asshole?

class='postcolor'>
Steven Segal is an asshole. One my friends/dorm mates form college lived

near him in southern California (Steven Segal at the time was married to model/actress Kelly La brock

"Weird Science" & "Above The Law" fame. He said that Steven Segal was very mean to his

mom and the guy was just an all around dickhead to all his neighbors and everyone else around him.

I saw

Steven Segal's story on E' True Hollywood Stories before. It seems like he married his Japanese wife

only for the purpose of taking over here father's dojo. Steven Segal seems like a very ambitious man (at

least he appeared to be in the past)...but in the process of obtaining his success and fortune he has sure

burned a lot of bridges and used, hurt and abandoned a lot of people in the process.

hansamu

Posted 18 January 2005 - 03:08 PM

Yet

you can't deny the acting talent that is signature seagal...

i.e. under seige? ...wait crap; under

seige 2???

Marisuke

Posted 18 January 2005 - 03:11 PM

Ja

Ja
When I asked, I meant... what is his ethnicity?
Is he Caucasian? Native?

MiraiZ

Posted 18 January 2005 - 03:24 PM

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QUOTE (hansamu @ Jan 19 2005, 08:08 AM)

id='QUOTE'> Yet you can't deny the acting talent that is signature seagal...

i.e. under seige? ...wait crap; under seige 2???

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acting talent....he has no acting talent

bd_sports

Posted 18 January 2005 - 08:14 PM

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QUOTE (Marisuke @ Jan 19 2005, 08:11

AM)

Ja Ja
When I asked, I meant... what is his

ethnicity?
Is he Caucasian? Native?

class='postcolor'>
Seagal? My guess is Jewish.

Just looked it up, read this, says

half-Irish and half-Jewish:

Seagal and the mob

danielyuki

Posted 01 February 2005 - 05:45 PM

Don't know if this has been mentioned before but there's a Japanese comedian turned politician called

Nishikawa Kiyoshi.

He's married to a haafu called Helen (not sure what the other half is)
Helen

Nishikawa and her (quarter) daughter Kanoko, (who is getting married to some guy that is only 8years younger

than her dad?!

)

this is them when they were younger.

number9

Posted 01 February 2005 - 11:33 PM

Japan won

the ice hockey Nagano Cup (kinda like the Spengler Cup, but on a much smaller scale) by beating Russia (dunno

what kind of team they sent over) and Canada (represented by the amateur chamption Allan Cup winner plus

Canadian players in Japan) thanks to a winning goal by Japanese-Canadian who obtained Japanese citizenship last

year, Aaron Keller of Oji in the Asian League. He's at least mixed:

http://www.jihf.or.j...news.php?id=361

number9

Posted 02 February 2005 - 12:42 AM

There is a

Swedish hapa Stefan Ishizaki on the Swedish national team for football (aka soccer). He's played in the UEFA

Cup as well. I think he's with AIK Solna in Sweden at the moment.

Baabaru

Posted 02 February 2005 - 07:55 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (TRACKGIRL @ Sep 28 2004, 11:07 PM)

id='QUOTE'> FYI...you spelled a name wrong back in December 2003 as an additional Halvsie

celebrity.
Ivonne Kanazawa is actually spelled YVONNE KANAZAWA...
the reason why I know is because this

is me...
Common mistake.
And by the way I ran much longer than the 1990's...you make me feel

old.
1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.

whoA, that's heavy! a halvsie celeb here!

nice to meet you

number9

Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:24 AM

Arashiro

Beni is a new halvsie girl who debuted on Avex...
http://www.avexnet.o...eni/profile.htm

bd_sports

Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:36 AM

She

seems like she saddles up more towards the American side, she likes BET. She's cool in my book that she

even knows what that is...

I guess she replaces Olivia Lufkin, b'c Axex let her go, I think...

tanpopo

Posted 07 February 2005 - 10:28 AM

Her

profile says her dad is half. So she's actually 3/4 Japanese, eh?

Marisuke

Posted 07 February 2005 - 10:32 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (tanpopo @ Feb 7 2005, 01:28 PM)

id='QUOTE'> Her profile says her dad is half. So she's actually 3/4 Japanese, eh?

[/quote]

母親が沖縄出身で父親がアメリ

カ人のハーフ。

No this means her mother is from Okinawa and her

father is from Amerika.

Ekondo1154

Posted 07 February 2005 - 10:40 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Marisuke @ Feb 7 2005, 08:32 AM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (tanpopo @ Feb 7

2005, 01:28 PM)

Her profile says her dad is half. So

she's actually 3/4 Japanese, eh?

class='postcolor'>
?????????????????????

No this means her mother is from Okinawa

and her father is from Amerika.

Oh, I thought her dad was half Japanese half American too

Nese

Posted 07 February 2005 - 11:00 AM

Whoa, all

of these half celebs look so different.

bd_sports

Posted 08 February 2005 - 11:33 PM

Denney Tomori, who is half-Okinawan I believe and formerly with Seibu Lions and of late the Bay

"Steers", has signed a minor-league deal with the Bosox:
href='http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/news/bos_news.jsp?ymd=20050130&content_id=936984&vkey=news_bo

s&fext=.jsp' target='_blank'>Sox sign deal with Japanese pitcher

yuichituba

Posted 09 February 2005 - 12:20 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Feb 7 2005, 06:24 AM)

id='QUOTE'> Arashiro Beni is a new halvsie girl who debuted on Avex...

[/quote]
she's from my school along

with Crystal Kay! Demo I never met Beni. I met Olivia and know her sister though.

danielyuki

Posted 09 February 2005 - 12:29 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (yuichituba @ Feb 9 2005, 05:20 PM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Feb 7

2005, 06:24 AM)

Arashiro Beni is a new halvsie girl who debuted

on Avex... [/quote]
she's from my

school along with Crystal Kay! Demo I never met Beni. I met Olivia and know her sister though.

[/quote]
And you know John off Waratte

iitomo! Damn.

I am giving Winton free membership to my bachelor pad

Shiirosu

Posted 09 February 2005 - 12:51 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Feb 7 2005, 08:24 AM)

id='QUOTE'> Arashiro Beni is a new halvsie girl who debuted on Avex...

href='http://www.avexnet.or.jp/beni/profile.htm'

target='_blank'>http://www.avexnet.o...eni/profile.htm

shes hot

Dejitancha

Posted 09 February 2005 - 06:43 AM

What

mixture is Uehara Takako? Her pic is on this site along with other halvsies....
I did not know she was a

halvsie. Chinese-Japanese?

crystal

Posted 09 February 2005 - 07:06 AM

did

anyone watch london hearts on sunday? i didn't. but, i did hear from a friend that they were doing this

thing on who seemed like they had the most 空っぽ head... anyway, when it came down to eiji

wentz and someone else, he apparently said something about "well, at least *half of me* is of superior dna

(!)

question 1) did he mean his japanese half or his white half?

apparently he apologized

quicky, saying he was in panic-状態　but i was curious is anyone else had seen it.

tanpopo

Posted 09 February 2005 - 11:03 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Dejitancha @ Feb 9 2005, 06:43 AM)

id='QUOTE'> What mixture is Uehara Takako? Her pic is on this site along with other

halvsies....
I did not know she was a halvsie. Chinese-Japanese?

No! I thought she was full Japanese! (Though she looks mixed.)

danielyuki

Posted 09 February 2005 - 10:34 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (crystal @ Feb 10 2005, 12:06 AM)

id='QUOTE'> did anyone watch london hearts on sunday? i didn't. but, i did hear from a

friend that they were doing this thing on who seemed like they had the most 空っぽ head...

anyway, when it came down to eiji wentz and someone else, he apparently said something about "well, at

least *half of me* is of superior dna (!)

question 1) did he mean his japanese half or his white

half?

apparently he apologized quicky, saying he was in panic-状態　but i was curious

is anyone else had seen it. [/quote]

Nope, didn't see it.

But one thing's for certain... that Wentz boy is an iiijut

bd_sports

Posted 09 February 2005 - 11:22 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (yuichituba @ Feb 9 2005, 05:20 PM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Feb 7

2005, 06:24 AM)

Arashiro Beni is a new halvsie girl who debuted

on Avex... [/quote]
she's from my

school along with Crystal Kay! Demo I never met Beni. I met Olivia and know her sister though.

[/quote]
Oh, you went to Yokosuka High,

huh?

bd_sports

Posted 09 February 2005 - 11:23 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (tanpopo @ Feb 10 2005, 04:03 AM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Dejitancha @ Feb 9

2005, 06:43 AM)

What mixture is Uehara Takako? Her pic is

on this site along with other halvsies....
I did not know she was a halvsie. Chinese-Japanese?

class='postcolor'>
No! I thought she was full Japanese! (Though she looks mixed.)

class='postcolor'>
Mixed up?

As far as I know she's Okinawan.

danielyuki

Posted 14 February 2005 - 10:05 PM

the Pepsi girl?

Esa chica Pepsi en el

anuncio del Superbowl 2005
Mandy Fujiko Amano.
There's even a website dedicated to her

already!!
http://thatpepsigirl.blogspot.com/

She's very pretty ne

c/o Gen

number9

Posted 14 February 2005 - 11:33 PM

Ooh, the

Pepsi iPod casting agent has really good taste

danielyuki

Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:10 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Feb 15 2005, 05:10

PM)

Oooh, you can watch the commercial here

href='http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/02/02.7.shtml'

target='_blank'>http://www.macobserv...5/02/02.7.shtml

class='postcolor'>
Damn! She's only in it momentarily

Damn fine all the same.

yuichituba

Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:24 AM

ya,

pretty hot. Halvsie represent, man.

danielyuki

Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:36 AM

fuggedabudit

number9

Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:40 AM

Ha,

daniel's digging his own grave again

SWC

Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:46 AM

Daniel

it's cool...I was just wondering/curious what you originally meant....I shouldn't have just assumed what

you were talking about.

danielyuki

Posted 15 February 2005 - 12:49 AM

danielyuki

Posted 15 February 2005 - 06:28 PM

Whaaaat??

The Character Michelle Dressler in the second series of 24 was half Japanese??

Reiko Aylesworth (the name says it all ne

)

I was just thinking she looks a lot like one of my Japanese

friends, never imagined that she was a haafu!

wakaranai mondane

(I know she's in the halvsie celebrity list, I discovered her

there)

danielyuki

Posted 15 February 2005 - 06:32 PM

Hang

on! It turns out that she's a quarter Japanese! Yappari...

href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043855/bio' target='_blank'>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043855/bio

Nez

Posted 15 February 2005 - 08:26 PM

Mochimaker

loves 24 and she's Quartsie. Now she's gonna love that show even more.

number9

Posted 15 February 2005 - 10:12 PM

It's

interesting that she was named and goes by Reiko, being a quartsie. Her or her halvsie parent must've felt

pretty strongly about the Japanese background..

danielyuki

Posted 15 February 2005 - 10:16 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Feb 16 2005, 03:12 PM)

id='QUOTE'> It's interesting that she was named and goes by Reiko, being a quartsie. Her

or her halvsie parent must've felt pretty strongly about the Japanese background..

yeah, I can't remember how our discussions

of what we'd call our children went but I'm not sure I'd name my children with traditional Japanese

names unless I had kids with a Japanese girl of course (or another haafu ne

)

number9

Posted 15 February 2005 - 10:22 PM

She's

an actress so she maybe trying to make her name memorable in the industry too. Dunno what her full name is, so

we can't tell if she's using a middle name for personal/career reasons or that is her first name that

she always used.

danielyuki

Posted 16 February 2005 - 01:30 AM

My

haafu colleague Maya tells me that Jacques Chirac has an illegitimate haafu son!

Is this true??

number9

Posted 16 February 2005 - 01:36 AM

Doesn't seem too surprising if it's true, French lovers and all

The French (and other Lating countries?) seem to separate private lives of

public figures from the politics more so than in Anglo countries (Bill and Monica, etc.), but this might just be

a stereotype...?

yuichituba

Posted 23 February 2005 - 12:52 AM

hey,

gotta give a shout out to my boy John O'Connor in "Iitomo" as one of the dancers...

oh! Shibui!

danielyuki

Posted 23 February 2005 - 12:54 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (yuichituba @ Feb 23 2005, 05:52 PM)

id='QUOTE'> hey, gotta give a shout out to my boy John O'Connor in "Iitomo" as

one of the dancers...

oh! Shibui!

I've seen him in all sorts of stuff, NHK English toka.

Shiirosu

Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:04 AM

does

anyone know what it takes to be famous in Japan. I was thinking maybe I could make it big there someday.

danielyuki

Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:07 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23 2005, 06:04 PM)

id='QUOTE'> does anyone know what it takes to be famous in Japan. I was thinking maybe I

could make it big there someday.

takes a lot of

Shiirosu

Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:12 AM

hmmm....that may work out for me.

but seriously...alot of "talent" in Japan doesnt exactly

seem to be the cream of the crop, if you know what i mean. Doesnt that mean the door is wide open for talentless

people like me to make it big? I have dreams....doesnt that mean anything?

SWC

Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:20 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Feb 23 2005, 01:07

AM)

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23 2005, 06:04 PM)

id='QUOTE'> does anyone know what it takes to be famous in Japan. I was thinking maybe I

could make it big there someday.

class='postcolor'>
takes a lot of

[/quote]
Hey i'm

great at that..."MUAH!!!!!!" hahaha...Japan here I come! haha

Shiirosu just come up with a weird

niche....look at people like Mashu and Hanawa Rocks with his cone shaped head.. just find some weird style

and/or niche no one else is wearing/doing...I don't know paint your face red and wear a white afro or

something haha...

Shiirosu

Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:24 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (SWC @ Feb 23 2005, 01:20 AM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Feb

23 2005, 01:07 AM)

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23 2005, 06:04 PM)

id='QUOTE'> does anyone know what it takes to be famous in Japan. I was thinking maybe I

could make it big there someday.

class='postcolor'>
takes a lot of

[/quote]
Hey i'm

great at that..."MUAH!!!!!!" hahaha...Japan hear I come! haha

Shiirosu just come up with a weird

niche....look at people like Mashu and Hanawa Rocks with his cone shaped head.. just find some weird style

and/or niche no one else is wearing/doing...I don't know paint your face red and wear a white afro or

something haha...

class='postcolor'>
hahah....i think you may be onto something sean. We are sitting on a

gold mine!

SWC

Posted 23 February 2005 - 01:29 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23 2005, 01:24 AM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (SWC @ Feb 23 2005,

01:20 AM)

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Feb 23 2005, 01:07 AM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23

2005, 06:04 PM)

does anyone know what it takes to be famous in

Japan. I was thinking maybe I could make it big there someday.

class='postcolor'>
takes a lot of

[/quote]
Hey i'm

great at that..."MUAH!!!!!!" hahaha...Japan hear I come! haha

Shiirosu just come up with a weird

niche....look at people like Mashu and Hanawa Rocks with his cone shaped head.. just find some weird style

and/or niche no one else is wearing/doing...I don't know paint your face red and wear a white afro or

something haha...

class='postcolor'>
hahah....i think you may be onto something sean. We are sitting on a

gold mine!

class='postcolor'>
Damn Straight!

The Shiirosu/swc show!!!

gen

Posted 23 February 2005 - 02:42 AM

Mandy

Fujiko Amano at Wondercon

http://www.ephemera....chives/605.html

danielyuki

Posted 23 February 2005 - 07:06 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (SWC @ Feb 23 2005, 06:29 PM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23

2005, 01:24 AM)

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (SWC @ Feb 23 2005, 01:20 AM)

id='QUOTE'>
align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Feb

23 2005, 01:07 AM)

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (Shiirosu @ Feb 23 2005, 06:04 PM)

id='QUOTE'> does anyone know what it takes to be famous in Japan. I was thinking maybe I

could make it big there someday.

class='postcolor'>
takes a lot of

[/quote]
Hey i'm

great at that..."MUAH!!!!!!" hahaha...Japan hear I come! haha

Shiirosu just come up with a weird

niche....look at people like Mashu and Hanawa Rocks with his cone shaped head.. just find some weird style

and/or niche no one else is wearing/doing...I don't know paint your face red and wear a white afro or

something haha...

class='postcolor'>
hahah....i think you may be onto something sean. We are sitting on a

gold mine!

class='postcolor'>
Damn Straight!

The Shiirosu/swc show!!!

class='postcolor'>
haha

err, I'll pay!

to not watch it

wombat777

Posted 28 February 2005 - 04:44 AM

half french

Nez

Posted 28 February 2005 - 05:06 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (wombat777 @ Feb 28 2005, 08:44 PM)

id='QUOTE'> half french

Really?

wombat777

Posted 28 February 2005 - 05:23 AM

don't doubt the master

I only speak the truth.

Nez

Posted 28 February 2005 - 05:40 AM

Goodness me,

she doesn't look French at all to me. Live and learn, I guess.

Davide

Posted 28 February 2005 - 07:09 AM

Who is

she, what does she do?

She really doesn't look haafu at all.

bd_sports

Posted 28 February 2005 - 09:08 AM

Man,

everyone's trying to jump on board.

I agree, she doesn't look mixed at all, but sometimes it turns out

that way...

danielyuki

Posted 03 March 2005 - 08:08 PM

I saw

a famous Half Japanese model in Velfarre last night!
I don't know her name but I recognised her from

something.
Damn, daredakke?
She was even looking at me with that "isn't that guy haafu?"

kind of expression (at least I think so).

I think my friend Bobby knows her so I'm going to ask him

to introduce me.

number9

Posted 03 March 2005 - 08:22 PM

cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE

She was even looking at

me with that "isn't that guy haafu?" kind of expression (at least I think

so).[/quote]
Hahaha, that's

classic! We all probably do that "isn't that person haafu?" expression from time to time

bd_sports

Posted 03 March 2005 - 08:23 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Mar 4 2005, 01:08 PM)

id='QUOTE'> I saw a famous Half Japanese model in Velfarre last night!
I don't

know her name but I recognised her from something.
Damn, daredakke?
She was even looking at me with that

"isn't that guy haafu?" kind of expression (at least I think so).

I think my friend Bobby

knows her so I'm going to ask him to introduce me.

Bobby Ologun?

Why didn't you just walk up to her and say, 'what's yo

number, cuz baby I'ma call ya?'

danielyuki

Posted 03 March 2005 - 08:41 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Mar 4 2005, 01:22 PM)

id='QUOTE'>
cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE

She

was even looking at me with that "isn't that guy haafu?" kind of expression (at least I think

so).[/quote]
Hahaha, that's

classic! We all probably do that "isn't that person haafu?" expression from time to time

class='postcolor'>
yeah, "isn't that guy a haafu? isn't he thinking the same

thing as me? Is he wondering whether he should say something?"

I did that once to a guy at school (talk to him), and he was

portuguese

danielyuki

Posted 03 March 2005 - 08:43 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (bd_sports @ Mar 4 2005, 01:23 PM)

id='QUOTE'> Why didn't you just walk up to her and say, 'what's yo number, cuz

baby I'ma call ya?'

Not my style.

I tend to continue staring

and do nothing about it

danielyuki

Posted 03 March 2005 - 10:33 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Mar 4 2005, 01:22 PM)

id='QUOTE'>
cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE

She

was even looking at me with that "isn't that guy haafu?" kind of expression (at least I think

so).[/quote]
Hahaha, that's

classic! We all probably do that "isn't that person haafu?" expression from time to time

class='postcolor'>
yeah, I was just looking at
href='http://www.halvsie.com/forums/index.php?&act=ST&f=29&t=681' target='_blank'>Queenie's profile

pic and thinking, "haven't I seen you somewhere before?"

that happens all the time. In fact that's exactly what i said to Davide the first time I met him.

SWC

Posted 04 March 2005 - 09:52 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Feb 23 2005, 07:06

AM)

The Shiirosu/swc show!!!

haha

err, I'll pay!

to not watch it

class='postcolor'>

Geez daniel thanks a lot for scalping the free ticket I gave you to my

show...now do me a favor..scalp the rest of these tickets and we'll split it even okay...hurry up

now...times a wasting.

danielyuki

Posted 13 March 2005 - 07:01 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Mar 4 2005, 01:08

PM)

I saw a famous Half Japanese model in Velfarre last

night!
I don't know her name but I recognised her from something.
Damn, daredakke?
She was even

looking at me with that "isn't that guy haafu?" kind of expression (at least I think so).

[/quote]
I saw the girl on a poster for

Cutie Magazine in Harajuku station!
http://tkj.jp/cutie/

I still don't know what her name is though

danielyuki

Posted 13 March 2005 - 07:02 PM

Have we had Rowland Krishima yet?

I saw him in an ad for a Japanese car and thought that guys looks haafu, but he

isn't a very good looking model

It turns out that he's a photographer and not a model, so I wonder

what he was doing in a major car commercial.

www.rowlandkirishima.com

number9

Posted 13 March 2005 - 07:03 PM

You

saw her (Harajuku station Cutie magazine model)?! She's cute.

danielyuki

Posted 13 March 2005 - 07:06 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (number9 @ Mar 14 2005, 12:03 PM)

id='QUOTE'> You saw her (Harajuku station Cutie magazine model)?! She's cute.

[/quote]
Do you know who I'm talking

about?

It's this girl. I can't find a

better pic.

danielyuki

Posted 13 March 2005 - 07:09 PM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (danielyuki @ Mar 14 2005, 12:02

PM)

Have we had Rowland Krishima yet?

I saw him in

an ad for a Japanese car and thought that guys looks haafu, but he isn't a very good looking model

It turns out that he's a

photographer and not a model, so I wonder what he was doing in a major car

commercial.

www.rowlandkirishima.com

class='postcolor'>
aha, a google search came up with this:

href='http://www.mazda.com/publicity/release/200404/0428ce.html' target='_blank'>Rowland in Mazda

commercial

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE

In

addition to confirming the product name, Mazda also announced that actress Ayako Kawahara and photographer

Rowland Kirishima will be supporting the Verisa�s launch. Ayako Kawahara has been active in various fields

including TV and films, while Rowland Kirishima is a versatile photographer focusing on fashion and portraits.

The ideal match of the style and image of these two well-known celebrities and the Verisa concept is the reason

Mazda selected them.[/quote]
Well-known

celebrities?

align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE

id='QUOTE'>Rowland Kirishima
Graduating from New York University�s photography

department, he started his career as a freelance photo director in New York. Based in Tokyo since 1993, he has

been actively producing excellent works in the area of fashion and portraits for magazines, advertisements, CD

jackets, TV commercials, promotion videos. His achievements include winning of the 2003 MTV Best R&B VIDEO

award.[/quote]

bd_sports

Posted 25 March 2005 - 10:06 PM

href='http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterid=7513' target='_blank'> Lyoto (Ryoto

Machida), who's half-Jpnse Brasilian:

And another with the same combo, actually half Okinawan,

Fabiano Iha:

greenhorn

Posted 26 March 2005 - 04:36 AM

Jason

Gissing.
One of the founders of Ocado (Waitrose's delivery service) is a halvsie...

danielyuki

Posted 26 March 2005 - 05:02 AM

cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (greenhorn @ Mar 26 2005, 09:36 PM)

id='QUOTE'> Jason Gissing.
One of the founders of Ocado (Waitrose's delivery service)

is a halvsie... [/quote]
Do you know

him?

I found a pic on google image search.

his

profile

He has an Honours Degree in Jurisprudence...

shimura-ken

Posted 26 March 2005 - 07:26 AM

julie dreyfus is haafu right?

bd_sports

Posted 26 March 2005 - 10:35 AM

No,

she's not. She's Jewish French. The first time I saw her teaching French on NHK-E I thought she was

too...

number9

Posted 27 March 2005 - 09:06 AM

She grew

up Japan or something, which is the cause for the confusion. I'd welcome her as an honourary halvsie

SWC

Posted 27 March 2005 - 11:48 AM

width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'>

QUOTE (shimura-ken @ Mar 26 2005, 07:26

AM)

julie dreyfus is haafu right?

Yeah like number9 said..I think she grew up in Japan..did some modeling in Japan. She's

fluent in Japanese (I think she is..her Japanese in Kill Bill sounded very good at least).

greenhorn

Posted 27 March 2005 - 04:21 PM

Danielyuki... I don't know him, but my brother went to school with him & they occasionally crosspaths in

London....

I think Kristin Kreuk in Smallville is cute...and thought she might be a halvsies, I suppose

she is of sorts, she's a Dutch/Chinese Canadian....

bd_sports

Posted 27 March 2005 - 09:21 PM

Actually I don't think Julie Dreyfus grew up in Japan. I thought she studied Nihongo in college and came

over straight after graduating? She didn't go to the "French School" in Ichigaya, did

she?

from imdb.com:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237838/bio

Mother is French actress Pascale Audret,

who tragically died in a road accident in July 2000. Julie has stuggled to come to term with it

since.

Maternal uncle is legandry French singer-songwriter Hugues Aufray who is known as the French

Bob Dylan.

Her parents divorced in 1973, after 8 years of marriage

Father is music producer

Francis Dreyfus, founder of Dreyfus Records.

So those items in bold ensures she's not part Jpnse,

right?

bd_sports

Posted 28 March 2005 - 08:11 PM

What

with the NHL on hiatus, wondering if #9 mentioned this guy yet or even knew about him?

DAVID TANABE

of the Phoenix Coyotes:

number9

Posted 28 March 2005 - 09:50 PM

Please

perform a search on this site to see if your halvsie celebrity has already been mentioned (but mentioning again

is a good idea when it's buried in the past).

I should compile a list... but 20 pages...

bd_sports

Posted 28 March 2005 - 10:56 PM

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QUOTE (number9 @ Mar 29 2005, 02:50 PM)

id='QUOTE'> Please perform a search on this site to see if your halvsie celebrity has

already been mentioned (but mentioning again is a good idea when it's buried in the past).

I should

compile a list... but 20 pages...

I did but Tanabe did not come up...

yuichituba

Posted 31 March 2005 - 03:16 PM

Anyone

know if David Ono of ABC in L.A. a halvsie?

href='http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/bios/bio_davidono.html' target='_blank'>David Ono

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