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November 29, 2023

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JAPAN / History

Nov 19, 2019

'Devastating memories': Author uses book aimed at youth to preserve hibakusha mom's legacy

The late Toshiko Ishikawa Hilliker, a Hiroshima native who immigrated to the United States about 15 years after World War II, started to open up later in life about being a hibakusha who lived through the decimation of her home city on Aug. 6, 1945.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Stage

Oct 6, 2019

Canadian rakugo storyteller keeps dream alive in New York City

Toronto native Katsura Sunshine has experienced setbacks as a rakugo storyteller, the 400-year-old Japanese comedic art form, but he has not given up on a long-held dream to build a rakugo theater in the Big Apple.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Film

Jun 5, 2019

Japanese filmmaker debuts Parkland school shooting documentary

Following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that claimed 17 lives in early 2018, Japanese filmmaker Emily Taguchi and her team spent months with members of the grieving community, documenting their recovery and activism in the wake of devastating gun violence.

Japan Times

JAPAN / Society

Feb 18, 2019

Re-enactment of Korematsu case that upheld Japanese internment fuels debate on Trump immigration policy

A re-enactment in New York of Korematsu v. United States, a 1944 Supreme Court case that upheld the wartime incarceration of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans, was recently staged with a new ending that takes into account the court's decision to overrule the notorious decision last June.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Dec 18, 2018

The swastika of good fortune? New York-based Japanese monk works to educate Westerners about symbol

When the Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki was honoring the Buddha's birthday with a sacred flower ceremony at a Seattle shrine in 1986, the Buddhist monk was met with sharp criticism for the chrysanthemums he arranged in the shape of a counterclockwise swastika.

Japan Times

JAPAN

Sep 13, 2018

9/11 survivor finds strength in helping 3/11 victims in Japan

An American survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York who reached out to the Tohoku region following the triple disaster in 2011 has for years fostered a unique bond with its people, finding the connection mutually beneficial in coping with the traumatic events.

Japan Times

CULTURE

Jan 21, 2018

Documentarian imparts a healthy fascination with Japanese school lunches

Although Alexis Sanborn was a self-professed Japanese-culture geek as a teenager, she never had much of an appetite for washoku (Japanese cuisine).

An official shot for this year’s lineup for NHK’s annual “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”

Things get warmer with Xi; Johnny’s get the cold shoulder

Yoshiko Koide sits in a classroom at Nagoya College where she teaches a Japanese-language observation seminar.

How a dictionary came to spark outrage among the web’s otaku

By Thu-Huong Ha and Yukana Inoue

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