“Rock’n The Holidays With Rakugo!”
Honolulu Theatre for Youth has the perfect solution for filling your holidays with merriment. “Rock’n the Holidays With Rakugo!” will be on-stage at Tenney Theatre through Dec. 20.
The production, which features three stories, was...
HIFF – Spotlight on Japan
“OVER THE FENCE” | U.S. Premiere | Japan | Japanese w/English subtitles | 112 min.
Written by Yasushi Sato and Ryo Takada. Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita.
From Yamashita (“Linda Linda Linda,” “La La La at Rock...
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda holds art show at the JANM
Yesterday, we told you about a Japanese American graffiti artist named Gajin Fujita who's work is being exhibited in London. Today, it's a rock star, Mike Shinoda of the popular bands Linkin Park and...
Scribblenauts and kabuki
A belated Christmas present for Japanese American internment camp sites.
West Coasters like their kabuki.
Good news for fans of Japanese boxing.
The popular video game Scribblenauts gets a Japanese makeover.
Artwork from famed Japanese American artist Jimmy...
Stubborn Twig and Billy Bat
A photograph exhibit featuring the works of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange at the University of Utah centers on Japanese American internment.
Japanese American triplets are part of a renewed focus on the fertility industry.
An...
The sights and sports of springtime
The exhibition Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, featuring over 70 photographs by UCSB professor Kip Fulbeck, is on display at the Japanese American National Museum through Sept. 26. Fulbeck's book by the same name,...
Books, balloons, and newspapers
The fight to save Japanese American newspapers rages on.
Got a hankering for some books? Try these Japanese American works.
"Lost Battalion" and 442nd soldiers meet once again.
A hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivor, speaks out at...
Quick links
Groundbreaking pitcher Hideo Nomo retired today. The 39-year-old Nomo burst onto the scene with the Dodgers in 1995 and captured the National League Rookie of the Year award. Along the way he opened up...
Today’s bullets
The war of words between directors Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood on the role of African Americans in the fight for Iwo Jima is heating up. From this Time article by Alex Altman:...
The Arts – “Thirty-Six Views of Mauna Kea”
Artist Laurie Sumiye Borrows Hiroshige’s Concept and Creates Her Own Homage to Mauna Kea Wayne Muromoto Special to The Hawai‘i Herald There are certain works of art that reverberate in time and inspire other artists to create their own works of art that, although they may not be direct imitations, at least resonate with an....
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