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Shortlist: Looking for hāfu from these 10 countries

Posted by Tetsuro / November 28, 2018 / Categories: blog / 0 Comments

English follows after Japanese

ショートリスト：以下の１０ヶ国からのハーフをまだまだ募集中です！

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Why I watched the Hāfu Film, again.

Posted by Tetsuro / February 26, 2018 / Categories: blog, English / 2 Comments

I had already interviewed about 24 Dutch Japanese hāfu for Hāfu2Hāfu when a friend forwarded a link to the Hāfu Film (Hafu – the mixed-race experience in Japan). Continue reading →

Hirado: Where Todays Japanese Hāfu Meet Their 17th Century Predecessors.

Posted by Tetsuro / January 14, 2018 / Categories: blog, event, exhibition / 1 Comment

When Dutch traders of the East India Company (VOC) arrived in Japan in the early 1600’s, they first settled in Hirado, Nagasaki. Western and Chinese merchants were allowed to live and mingle with the locals here freely before the Shogun restricted international relations by declaring several Sakoku Edicts between 1633 and 1639. Most countries were prohibited all contact and trading, while Dutch and Chinese merchants were moved to the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki in 1641. Continue reading →

SIETAR x Hāfu2Hāfu Presentation and Workshop, by guest blogger Nina Cataldo

Posted by Tetsuro / November 13, 2017 / Categories: blog, English, event / 0 Comments

On October 15th, 2017, Tetsuro Miyazaki held a presentation and workshop on his Hāfu2Hāfu Project in partnership with SIETAR Japan (The Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research). In attendance were roughly 40 people from all walks of life. Japanese folks with international backgrounds, parents of multi-cultural/ethnic children, a zainichi (Japan-born Korean) man, nissei, sansei Japanese and of course, many hāfus like myself. Continue reading →