Hiroshima and Obama: His Soaring Rhetoric and the Difficulties of Winning Peace

Mike Murase

A few weeks ago, I awoke in the middle of the night and heard President Obama’s familiar voice. I hadn’t planned on listening in real time to his speech in Hiroshima, but his usual eloquence lured me to stay up and watch.

Nikkei Chronicles #3—Nikkei Names: Taro, John, Juan, João?

Don't Call Me Michael!

Mike Murase

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 …