"Child of the Sun" brings to light
A difficult choice of nationality
What is a Japanese person? In the previous column, I considered this question through the discussion of beauty pageants. There are various definitions and images of Japanese people, but in the end, it seems that "Japanese people" cannot be defined. On the other hand, "Japanese citizens" can be defined as …
There are 1,294,000 Japanese people residing overseas.
Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-American woman surviving a life of hardship during and after the war. Ippei Maeda, a scholar of American literature, translated the novel over the course of 10 years and published it at the end of last year. We asked him about the …
Juliet S. Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-American woman surviving a life of hardships during and after the war. Ippei Maeda, a scholar of American literature, translated the novel over the course of 10 years and published it at the end of last year. We asked him about …
Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-American woman surviving a life of hardship during and after the war. Ippei Maeda, a scholar of American literature, translated the novel over the course of 10 years and published it at the end of last year. We asked him about the …
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