Japan to Offer 10,000 Free Trips to Foreign Visitors in a Bid to Bump Its Moribund Tourist Trade, But It May Not Help How Japanese Really Feel About Nuclear Power and Their Government
• October 31, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Class, Food, Health, History, Japan, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Political Malfeasance, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, The Mainstream Media (MSM), World History
Tags: Aftermath of World War II, Bailout, Bilingual, Billions, Collusion, Compensation, Confidence, Distrust, Duplicity, Fukushima Daiichi, Homelessness, Japan, Japan Tourism Agency, Japanese, Japanese Politics, Kyushu Electric Power Company, Lies, Lying, New Orleans, Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plants, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Fears, Rick Steves, Sendai, Soka Gakkai, Tepco, The Katrina Diaspora, Tohoku Earthquake, Tourism, Trust, United States, Utility Companies, Yen, Yomiuri Shimbun
Satoshi Kanazawa May Lose His Job Over His “Psychology Today” Article That ‘Black Women Are Less Attractive’ Than Other Women (And He Should)
• May 26, 2011 • 3 CommentsPosted in Aborigines/Blacks, African American History, Africans, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Education, European History, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "High Noon", "Shanghai Noon", "The Social Perception of Skin Color in Japan", African American Women, African Americans, Akiba Solomon, Apology, Ayn Rand, Black Women, Chon Wang, Color, Estrogen Levels, Ethnocentrism, Evolutionary Psychology, Gary Cooper, Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Honorary White, Japan, Japanese, London School of Economics, Love, LSE, LSE Students' Union, Mikhail Lyubansky, Psychology Today, Race, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Racism, Satoshi Kanazawa, Science Fiction, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Single Black Women, Sister Resistor, St. Ives, Stanford University, Testosterone Levels, The Great Pacific War, Unilever, United States, Whiteness, William Shockley, Xenophobia
Why Should Black People Care About What Happens To Japan? Because Black People Live and Work in Japan, That’s Why
• March 16, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black Expatriates, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Health, Homelessness, Japan, Joblessness, Love, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Travel, Who I Am, World History, World War II
Tags: "The African American Experience in Japan", "The Japan Times", 50 Cent, Aid, Ainu, Akafia, Alexandra Wallace, Assistance, Black Tokyo, Bush II, City, Country, Daimoku, Dear Life Japan, Dobashi's, Earthquake, Eric L. Robinson, Expatriates, Foreigners, Fulbright Fellow, Gai-jin, Gaijin, Gongyo, Gunjin, Homogeneity, Jackson Street, Japan Earthquake, Japanese, Jero, Jerome White, Jerome White Jr., Kokujin, Living in Japan, Meltdown, Miyagi Prefecture, New Orleans, Nichi Bei Bussan, Nichiren Buddhism, Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Weapons, Okinawans, Outsiders, Payback, Pearl Harbor, Pioneers, Purity, Rastafarianism, Reggie Life, Sendai, SGI Buddhism, Takara in Tokyo, Takara Swoopes Bullock, The Katrina Diaspora, Tofu Factory, Tremors, Tsunami, UCLA, Working in Japan, 東北地方太平洋沖地震
A Big One Hit Japan (w/Updates)
• March 11, 2011 • 4 CommentsPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Class, Japan, Natural Disasters, People of Color, The Mainstream Media (MSM), World History
Tags: 1998 Winter Olympics, 8.9, Asia, California, Canada, Crescent City California, Earthquake, English Language, Hawaii, Japan, Japan Earthquake, Japanese, Japanese Language, Japanese People, Left Coast, Live Streaming, Los Angeles, Nagano, New Guinea, New Zealand, PC World, Richter Scale, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sendai, Soka Gakkai Japan, The Philippines, Tokyo, Tsunami Warning System, Tsunami Warnings, Tsunamis, United States, West Coast, West Coast of the United States
Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, Passes
• July 15, 2010 • Comments Off on Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, PassesPosted in Acting, Anime Cartoons, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Fiction Writing, Film, Japan, Memoir, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Astro Boy", "City Across the River", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Mr. District Attorney", "Speed Racer", Actor, Anime, Broadway, Cartoon, Channel 44, Children, Chim-Chim, Corinne Orr, Director, Drama, Growing Up, Hollywood, Japan, Japanese, KBHK TV, NBC, Peter Fernandez, Pops Racer, Pulp Fiction, Radio, Rex Racer, San Francisco, Sprytle, The Galaxy Rangers, The Seventies, The Sixties, Trixie, Voice, Voice Actor, Voice Overs, Voices, Writer
The Poet Ai Joins the Ancestors
• March 24, 2010 • 4 CommentsPosted in Ai, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Books, Class, Education, People of Color, Spirituality
Tags: "Killing Floor", "No Surrender", "Nothing But Color", African American, Ai, Ai Ogawa, American Book Award, Asian, Asian American, Buddhist, Florence Anthony, Irish, Japanese, Leon Trotsky, Lev Bronstein, Multiracial, Native American, Oklahoma State University, Poet, Poetry, Russia, The National Book Award, United States Artists Ford Fellowship, University of California Irvine Alumni, Yukio Mishima
This Is What a Black Barbie Looks Like
• October 27, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Fashion, Health, History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Race, Women
Tags: African American, African Americans, Afrocentric, Afrocentricity, Anne Geddes, Barbie, Biracial, Black, Christmas, Crafts, Doll, Dollmaking, Dolls, eBay, Japan, Japanese, Mattel, Painted, Self Image, Self-Worth, Shopping, Tabloach Productions, The Borg, War, Whiteness
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