ニッケイ物語 3—ニッケイ人の名前:太郎・ジョン・フアン・ジョアオ?
名前にはどんな意味があるのでしょう?このシリーズでは、名前の意味や起源など、日系人の名前(姓、名前、あだ名を含む)にまつわるこれまで語られることのなかったストーリーを紹介します。
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ブラジルで日系名を持つこと
キタハラ 高野 聡美 (著)
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二つの文化から再発見した私の名前
ジェイミー・ツツセ (著)
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同じ名前に戸惑う
ジミー・セイジ・アメミヤ・シウ (著)
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もしもし、どちらに掛かっていますか?
クラウディオ・サンペイ (著)
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このシリーズのストーリー
Struggle for Identity
2014年8月14日 • ロイ・ウェスリー
As I think about my name and what it has meant to me over the different stages of my life, I see that my name has not been a constant feature of ME. I have evolved over time and my perception of my name has altered with each modification. I was born Roy Kermit Uyesugi at the time that the US was brought into WWII by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. After our family left the interment camp at …
You Can Call Me Ben
2014年8月8日 • ゲイリー・T・オノ
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet) William pretty much sums it up for me as far as names go, but it is interesting to learn about how names are determined by different times and cultures. In Japan, middle names were not used, but in the turn-of-the-century America, Japanese pioneer immigrants, Issei, in most cases gave their Nisei children, second generation Japanese in America, Japanese …
What’s in a Nikkei Name?
2014年8月1日 • ロイド・カジカワ
Writing assignment: an essay about Nikkei Names. A cinch, until I asked myself the question, “What is a Nikkei name?” As I understand it, Nikkei is the term we are using these days for Japanese in the diaspora? If so, should I write about Japanese names? That would be a short essay, unless I made a list of all the Japanese names I know—actually, it would still be a short essay. So, if not “Japanese” names, then I’ll write about …
Here’s My Name
2014年7月17日 • オスカー・マドリガ
My mother wanted to name me Nicolas, after her father. He died when she was still very young. My father was against it. He didn’t want any of the kids named after anyone in the family. He wanted all of us to have our own names. Being, that my dad is a junior, I’m sure the pressure of being named and following in grandfather’s footsteps must have weighed heavily on him. My grandfather had been a Bracero during World War …
Don't Call Me Michael!
2014年7月8日 • マイク・ムラせ
I was born in Japan. My birth name is Murase Ichiro [村瀬一郎]. My obaachan proposed “Ichiro”—a name not uncommon for a first-born male, but she also had another reason. My grandmother, who taught at Kyoritsu Women’s University in Tokyo, had been a friend of the mother of Hatoyama Ichirō, a Japanese politician who later headed the center-right Liberal Democratic Party and became the Prime Minister of Japan. (He’d be turning in his grave to know that a person with progressive, …
Asamen - Is it Japanese?
2014年7月1日 • ティム・アサメン
My name is Tim Asamen, and, yes, I am a full-fledged Sansei. I say that because my surname is so strange that it can be downright baffling to ethnic Japanese. Whenever I introduce myself to both Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans, it always causes confusion. When I say “Asamen” the usual response is “huh?” It’s even worse when some of my own family members say our name because they don’t pronounce it with a Japanese accent, so it sounds more …