“Features” Category Archive

2007年08月27日 月曜日

Cyberpunk and Techno-Orientalism

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Movies

This is the second in a three part series on Cyberpunk by Mike Dillon. Part One is here. Cyberpunk literature is written by and written for a generation that occupies “a truly science-fictional world” (Sterling 1986, xi), producing work that...

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2007年02月16日 金曜日

Where to go in Tokyo

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Japan

Probably because many of my US-based friends are academics and technologists, many of them visit Tokyo as part of their professional circuit. I often get requests for recommendations for places to stay and visit while in Tokyo. Usually these requests...

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2006年12月19日 火曜日

Situating the Global Cyberpunk Aesthetic

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Movies

This is the first in a three part series on Cyberpunk by Mike Dillon The last decade has seen a startling growth in the demand for Japanese consumer culture. A weariness of recycled material, paired with wartime anti-Americanism in general...

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2006年07月11日 火曜日

Surrealism X 3

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Movies

Here is another installment from my student essays from my Japanese popular culture class last year. This one is from Brendan Callum. From time to time there are motifs and symbols that come to represent or signify a certain genre....

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2006年03月15日 水曜日

Westernization and MTV Japan's Top Five

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Music

Here is another installment from my student essays from my Japanese popular culture class last year. This one is from Ainsley Breault. According to an article about MTV, Music Television, the station is "Undeniably an institution… viewed in over 342...

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2005年12月01日 木曜日

Hello Kitty Has No Mouth

by Mizuko Ito

Fashion, Features

Here is another installment from my student essays from my Japanese popular culture class. This one is from Jennilee Tuazon. Her blank eyes gaze at you from her white face, her button nose a sunshine yellow. A dainty bow...

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2005年10月11日 火曜日

Anime and Learning Japanese Culture

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Japan Abroad, Language, Movies, Television

In her master's thesis submitted to the East Asian Studies Center at USC, Annie Manion argues that among college students in the US, anime has become one of the most important drivers of interest in Japan and Japanese language study....

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2005年08月12日 金曜日

Miyazaki's Unmoving Castle

by Deborah Shamoon

Features, Movies

Is Disney trying to intentionally sabotage the release of Miyazaki Hayao's films in the USA? Deborah Shamoon pays a visit to Howl's Moving Castle, and finds her stay lacking......

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2005年06月26日 日曜日

Global Samurai

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Japan Abroad

For the final essays for my Japanese Popular Culture class this spring at USC, my students wrote on the theme of transnationalism. Here is an essay by Annie Manion which takes up how the image of the samurai has become...

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2005年04月27日 水曜日

Bobby Okinaka

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Japan Abroad, People

Last year, when I organized an event on Animation and the Contemporary Japanese Imagination, I got a call from Rafu Shimpo, the oldest Japanese language daily newspaper in the US. They wanted to send a reporter out to the...

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2004年12月29日 水曜日

Signs of .hack

by Justin Hall

Features, Movies, Television

Mike Dillon examines .hack//SIGN, an anime miniseries that aired in Japan between 2002-03, directed by Mashimo Koichi and written by Ito Kazunori and Omoda Akemi. What follows is an analysis of the cyberpunk themes explored within its story, and a...

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2004年05月19日 水曜日

Casshern: SciFi Unseen

by Deborah Shamoon

Features, Movies

Japan may lead the world in animation, but it's not generally known for live action sci fi films, or at least serious ones for adults (Godzilla notwithstanding). Budgetary restraints are probably one reason, but advances in computer animation could change...

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2004年01月16日 金曜日

Move Over Sake, It's Time For Wine

by Anne Pinckard

Features, Food

When I first heard that my uncle, who lives in Chiba-ken, was working in the wine business I was a bit dubious. Hmmm.... Wine? In Japan?...

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2003年11月15日 土曜日

Iku Mohamed

by Karuna Shinsho

Features, People

Iku Mohamed, President of Japan Digital Entertainment, Inc., talks about the worldwide appeal of his successful animation BuBu ChaCha....

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2003年07月31日 木曜日

Jane Aiko Yamano

by Karuna Shinsho

Features

With her chestnut colored hair and perfect English delivered in a booming voice, Jane Aiko Yamano, at first glance, seems an unlikely candidate for promoting a traditional Japanese robe as the kimono....

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2003年06月12日 木曜日

Michiyo Masabuchi and Chanpon Alternative Schooling

by Mizuko Ito

Education, Features, Japan Abroad, People

First in a series on "Chanpon LA" A Profile of Michiyo Masabuchi: model, mother, alternative educator....

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2003年05月21日 水曜日

Juergen Specht

by Mizuko Ito

Features, People

Juergen Specht is a photographer who is mixing Germany Ireland and Japan to make Nooper - a nimble mobile software developer and mobile culture exporter from Tokyo....

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2002年11月30日 土曜日

Karuna Shinsho

by Justin Hall

Family and Relationships, Features, Japan Abroad, People

In this three-part interview, former CNN/NHK anchorwoman Karuna Shinsho speaks about her childhood in Japan and Hawai'i, as the child of a Buddhist minister, now an avid spam-eater and mother of a possibly tri-lingual child....

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2002年09月13日 金曜日

Murasaki Tattoo

by Justin Hall

Features

Violet: how one American marked herself Chanpon....

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2002年09月07日 土曜日

Culture-Cuisinarted Coolness

by Tosh Chiang

Features, Music

Cornelius, the Boredoms, Melt Banana, Guitar Wolf: four bands from Japan that season with western fixin's whilst still keeping the entree nihongo-styled and original in some way:...

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2002年07月18日 木曜日

Janglish Panglish

by Kaori Kitao

Features, Language

A whimzikaru rooku atua Japanese adaptation of English words....

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2002年05月16日 木曜日

Ki Nimori

by Junko Sumiya

Education, Features, People

Art and Crafts Instructor at the American School In Japan (ASIJ)...

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2002年05月16日 木曜日

Toshiro Chiang: What's in a name.

by Tosh Chiang

Features, People

I was given a more ethnic name to seem more Asian. Rather than blur diversity, my name shouts it....

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2002年04月19日 金曜日

Intercultural Vittles

by Mizuko Ito

Features, Food

A recent spring dinner party saw Chanpon dishes mixing East and West....

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2002年04月18日 木曜日

Chanpon Hanami

by Mizuko Ito

Community, Features

Mixing it up in Komazawa Olympic Park....

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2002年04月08日 月曜日

The Search for Madame Butterfly, and the Evolution of Early Mixed-Culture Myths

by Justin Hall

Books, Features, Music

The Search for Madame Butterfly, and the Evolution of Early Mixed-Culture Myths...

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2002年04月02日 火曜日

Nod Nod

by Kaori Kitao

Biculturalism, Features

Can you tell a Japanese face apart from a Chinese and Korean face? I certainly cannot....

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2002年03月16日 土曜日

Yu-Tsung Chang

by Mizuko Ito

Biculturalism, Business, Features, People

Managing Director, Tokyo, Standard & Poor's Credit Market Services...

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2002年02月10日 日曜日

The Roots of Modern Chanpon Music

by Justin Hall

Features, Music

Kenji Rikitake writes on Haruomi 'Harry' Hosono, YMO, and the beginning of Chanpon Music...

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2002年02月08日 金曜日

Caroline Pover: Being a Broad in Japan

by Justin Hall

Books, Expats in Japan, Features

Caroline Pover: Being a Broad in Japan...

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2002年01月08日 火曜日

Koh-Hee

by Kaori Kitao

Features, Food

Coffee is coffee is coffee, of course, and yet it is not. Here lies the complexity and delight of cross-cultural encounters....

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2001年12月16日 日曜日

Merle Okawara

by Mizuko Ito

Business, Features, People

Chairman, JC Foodsnet Co., Ltd....

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2001年09月11日 火曜日

A Chanpon View from New York City on 9/11

by Mizuko Ito

Community, Features, News

A Chanpon Member writes from ground-zero for the Terrorist Attacks on New York City on 11 September 2001....

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2001年09月08日 土曜日

Joichi Ito

by Mizuko Ito

Business, Features, People

Founder and CEO, Neoteny Corp....

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