Halvsie | For, By and About Half Japanese

The Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley will host the Hapa Japan Conference on April 8th and 9th, featuring specialists in the study of mixed-race Japanese history, identity, and representation.

Japanese Americans have some handy labels with which to identify ourselves. Nikkei, referring to emigrants from Japan and their descendants, works rather nicely. Yes, it does lump us in with people of other nationalities, and sure, it has probably confused its share of stockbrokers, but these minor details haven’t diminished its omnipresence in our lives. [...]

A Japanese food writer blends her passion for British food with the memories that accompany each dish, in this touching documentary, a labour of love with all the trimmings.

Roxana Saberi, who is half Japanese and half Iranian, moved to Iran in 2003 to work as the Iran correspondent for the U.S.-based Feature Story News. She filed reports for organizations such as NPR, BBC, ABC Radio and Fox News and was working on a book about Iranian society when she was arrested on January [...]

Twenty-two year-old halvsie poet Sarah Kay gives a remarkable performance at the TED Conference this year.

Japanese-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi describes how she was arrested for espionage and sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison.

Roxana Saberi is an Iranian/Japanese American journalist, who was arrested in Iran in February 2009 for working as a reporter without press credentials – her credentials were revoked in 2006. On April 8, 2009, the Iranian government charged Saberi with espionage, and she was subsequently sentenced to an eight-year prison term. An appeals court reduced [...]

Check out halvsie Judith Hill singing “Heal the World” at Michael Jackson’s Memorial

Watch [[Marie Digby]]’s new music video for “Feel”, the first single in Japan off her new album “Breathing Underwater”

[[Mike Shinoda]] and Linkin Park are back with a vengence. Minutes To Midnight, their new record, has sold 2.7 million worldwide. One week after its international release, the album has debuted #1 in the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Norway, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Philippines, Italy, Sweden, Austria, and Ireland and is certified platinum [...]

A product of Tohoku High School in Sendai, and the highest paid player in Japan, Darvish is donating 50 million yen to the relief efforts.ikoni

трапезни маси Image by seanalex. Apolo Anton Ohno (born May 22, 1982) is an American short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist (two gold, two silver, four bronze) in the Winter Olympics. He is the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time. Ohno is one of only four Americans who have [...]

[[Paulo Nagamura]] is happy to land with a club that needs him, and a role that suits him.

Young filmmaker Laurel Nakadate’s film “The Wolf Knife” was nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit Award.

DOA, a very popular video game created by Tecmo, has been made into a movie starring Devon Aoki. On IESB.net they’ve posted a video interview with Devon, talking about her role, the movie, and some of he stunts involved in creating the action scenes.

If you are looking for action with a distinctly international flavor, you could do worse than pairing Jet Li with Jason Statham. Add Devon Aoki, Kane Kosugi and Luis Guzman, and you have a pretty stellar colleciton of world wide badasses in one film. Check out the cast list of the upcoming War. икони