“News” Category Archive

2006年10月20日 金曜日

Part Asian - 100% Hapa

by Mizuko Ito

News

From June 8-October 29, the Asian American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles will be featuring an exhibition of the photography of kip fulbeck. The exhibit features photographs of hapa combined with their own handwritten commentary about who they are....

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2005年12月01日 木曜日

Fortune Finds Otaku

by Mizuko Ito

News

This week's Fortune features an article, Anime Explosion on the growth of the anime and otaku market in the US. The gist of the message is that US companies catering to the otaku market have a unique formula for success...

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2003年03月27日 木曜日

こどもニュース

by Justin Hall

News

On his weblog MikeMedia, Mike Gerhardt has been writing about the U.S. war with Iraq from the standpoint of an American living in Japan. Most recently, he posted pictures from こどもニュース, a show on Japanese TV teaching kids about the...

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2003年03月26日 水曜日

Spring Renewal

by Mizuko Ito

News

Chanpon is sporting a new site design to celebrate spring. We hope to maintain the spirit of the season and chanpon culture in the face of international conflict. Please let us know what you think of the new design and...

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2003年02月04日 火曜日

American space shuttles and Japanese submarines

by Joichi Ito

News

I wrote a comment on <a href="http://joi.ito.com/">my blog</a> about how I hoped that the tragic shuttle accident does not mean that we stop the space program. I mentioned a Japanese submarine captain who was involved in a trial of one of the first Japanese submarines. There is an amazing diary of the captain as he and his crew suffocate at the bottom of the sea. There is <a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/02/02/the_space_program_should_continue.html">an interesting chanpon discussion on my blog entry</a> and Chie and Mike identified the story and found a website with the Japanese as well as the translation into English. <blockquote><div class="personquote"><a href="http://www.geocities.com/gwmccue/Submarines/Holland_7J.html">Lieutenant Sakuma</a></div>We now sacrifice our lives for the sake of our country, but my fear is that the disaster will affect the future development of submarines. It is therefore my hope that nothing will daunt your determination to study the submarine until it is a perfect machine, absolutely reliable. We can then die without regret.</blockquote>

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2002年06月21日 金曜日

"No Nosy Questions if You Please. We're Japanese."

by Justin Hall

News, Politics

From the New York Times, a Tokyo correspondent's visit to the emporer left him seemingly a bit shocked at the decorum required for a visit to the Japanese royal family. Is this standard procedure with imperials or unique to the...

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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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