“People” Category Archive

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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2005年02月18日 金曜日

Miyazaki in the New Yorker

by Jane Pinckard

People

I haven't been able to track down a copy but the January 17th issue of the New Yorker has a profile of Miyazaki Hayao, creator of popular anime films such as My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. The article is...

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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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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08日 土曜日

Joichi Ito

by Mizuko Ito

Business, Features, People

Founder and CEO, Neoteny Corp....

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