Category: 占領
VIDEO: “B-Style” – Blackness in Japan 2009 to the Present – Reflections
OUT NOW! New Book by Walter Hamilton!
Dream of the Water Children — Video Series Launch: Episode 1
This is the first in a series of ongoing video projects based on my personal family history, historical memory, Asia-Pacific postwar ethnography and the historical present. It is on my channel at YouTube.
KARTIKA REVIEW: my poem is published in Latest Issue!
One of the best Asian-American literary journals in the United States is The Kartika Review. The Spring 2012 issue was just released, with my first published poem entitled: For Kiyoko, Epitaph/Chikai published in the issue. It is a poem dedicated to my mother, who just passed away this past September.
Academy Awards, Racism and Sayonara: Creating the White Pacific
Article: Selling Mixed Race Babies: The Koreas Example
This article LINK from the Asia Times from July 17, 2002 by Aidan Foster-Carter entitled: Adopting, Adapting: Korean Orphans is an excellent beginning overview of how mixed-race bodies are used, especially in the context of orphanages.
Vintage Japanese Film – Trailer: Konketsuji Rika 混血児 リカ (1972)
Quote: Adaptations of Racism and the Pacific War’s aftermath – “War Without Mercy”
“As the war years themselves changed over into an era of peace between Japan and the Allied powers, the shrill racial rhetoric of the early 1940s revealed itself to be surprisingly adaptable. . . . . . . .
Jet Magazine: Black Men and Japanese Women – Post WWII
Poem by San Francisco-based Blasian Hapa Poet Sabrena Taylor: Hair 2
Okinawan Boys Scouts, the War, Internalized Oppressions: A Commentary
In Memorium: My Mother − Kiyoko Kakinami Cloyd Nov. 2, 1929 (?)- Sept. 17, 2011
Song & Occupation Video: Quintessential Postwar Japan’s Women’s song: 星の流れに Hoshi no Nagare Ni
Photo of Tachikawa Air Force Base gates with the cherry blossoms in bloom 1960.
Article: Former Orphanage Resident Demian Akhan Revisits Japan 2009
Demian Akhan, a former resident of the Elizabeth Saunders Home for Mixed Race Children in Japan, who now resides in New York, visits again and talks to the Japan Times interviewer. For article – CLICK HERE.
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 