Shigeharu Higashi
@culturalnewsNasceu em 1954, em Kure, Hiroshima. Em 1981, Higashi mudou-se para os EUA e trabalhou como repórter para jornais de língua japonesa em Los Angeles e São Francisco. Ele também tem experiência como assistente de correspondente especial do Asashi Shimbun de Los Angeles e como gerente de distribuição de notícias em japonês da corporação norte-americana da Kyodo News Service em Los Angeles. Em 1998, ele fundou o jornal mensal em inglês Cultural News , que cobre notícias culturais focadas na arte japonesa e eventos culturais na área de Los Angeles, bem como no Grande terremoto do Leste do Japão em 2011. Tanto o jornal mensal Cultural News como a sua edição online, www.culturalnews.com , podem ser subscritos mediante pagamento.
Atualizado em junho de 2014
Stories from This Author
Cultural News: An attempt to reach newcomers from Japan was turned into discovering Japanese culture enthusiasts in America
19 de Maio de 2011 • Shigeharu Higashi
Cultural News is a monthly English language newspaper featuring traditional Japanese culture events in Southern California. The 8-page tabloid has printed 6,000 copies since July 1998 in Los Angeles by Japan-born Shige Higashi. It is distributed to Japanese American community centers in Southern California and directly mailed to subscribers for $25 a year with 12 issues. Currently Cultural News is also recognized as a daily email newsletter, edited by Higashi. The same contents of the monthly newspaper and daily email …
Exhibition: Hirokazu Kosaka’s interpretation of 12th century scroll
14 de Dezembro de 2010 • Shigeharu Higashi
When his fellow classmates in Wakayama, Japan, were engulfed in reading the popular manga of the day, growing up as a teenager in post-war Japan, Hirokazu Kosaka found his imagination transfixed by a scroll he saw at the Kozanji Temple in Kyoto. The scroll, considered to be the world’s oldest manga created in the 12th century, was the Chojyu-Jinbutsu-Giga (Animal Person Caricature) painted by Toba Sojo. Fifty years later Kosaka, now artistic director of the Japanese American Cultural and Community …
わたしは「アメリカ系日本人」
5 de Outubro de 2010 • Shigeharu Higashi
ことばは「関係」をあらわすものである。わたしを生んで育ててくれた男女は、わたしや、わたしの妹・弟にとっては「父・母」という存在である。わたしには子供がいないのだが、妹夫婦、弟夫婦に子供ができると、親族間では、この男女のことを「おじいさん・おばあさん」と呼ぶようになる。 こんな、当たり前のことを、あえて書いてみたのは、移民問題を考えるときに、当たり前のように使っている「日系〇〇人」という用語について、考え直してみることが必要と、思うからだ。 わたしはアメリカに住んでい…