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From the Multippl press release. Hāfu2Hāfu x Multippl Hāfu2Hāfu is a project created by Netherlands-based Japanese-Belgian photographer Tetsuro Miyazaki, who set out to photograph a hāfu – a person with one […]

On 27th May 2023 I made my appearance at TEDxValència where I was invited to talk about how photography has helped me in my search for answers about identity. I […]

From 22nd November to 11th January Point Culture Liège will be displaying 55 portraits and questions from the Hāfu2Hāfu project. On Saturday 23rd November, I had the chance to hold […]

This summer I had the chance to meet Greg Lam from Life Where I’m From for the second time. The first time, he interviewed me for his documentary about being Japanese. This […]

See original post and more photos on Tetsuro.Photography From 20 to 29th September 2019, you can visit the first edition of the Maastricht Photo Festival. The theme is Up Close and presents […]

日本人と外国人の間に生まれた「ハーフ」と呼ばれる人たち１２０人の写真と、彼らが持つ疑問をまとめた写真集が出版された。撮影した日系ベルギー人の男性は「日本人、ハーフ、外国人それぞれの多様さを考えるきっかけになれば」と期待する。

Thanks to a collaboration with FujiFilm Original Photopaper, we have been able to make 60 beautifully crafted Limited Edition Photo Books. Each book has a unique cover with a different […]

This week, I had the honour to join Hope McGrath for a conversation about being mixed Japanese for this episode of her Radiant Mix Podcast. About Radian Mix Podcast: Conversations […]

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Please read the introduction Tokyo based American Japanese hāfu Nina Cataldo wrote for the book here.

Japan Today and GaijinPot editor Vlisides Leannah has been following the project since 2017. Please read her review of the Hāfu2Hāfu book in her article titled: ‘120 interviews later, photographer releases book about Japanese […]

“The piercing, poignant looks of those who were photographed, coupled with soul-searching questions, make for a powerful combination that almost stumps the reader.”

I am very proud and happy to announce that the Hāfu2Hāfu photo book will be presented at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on 13th April, from 14.00 to 16.00.

After completing the crowdfunding campaign in March 2018, and a wonderful year full of exhibitions, workshops and meeting many more haāfu people to photograph and interview, I am extremely happy […]

In January 2019, Tetsuro was interviewed by Isaac “Tac” Aquino, the founder of Tokyo Interlopers. “I was born and raised in Belgium to a Japanese dad and a Belgian mom. My […]

大分合同新聞と西日本新聞（トップページ）にハーフ２ハーフの議事が出ました！ Rai Enomotoさんありがとうございます。 WOW! Oitagodoshimbun and Nishinihonshimbun (front page!!!) published an article about the project.

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！

Dutch quality news paper ‘De Volkskrant’ published an interview and a selection of 26 portraits. The whole article is available here (in Dutch).

English follows after Japanese. 皆さんこんにちは。

Looking for participants in Tokyo After the crowd funding campaign, it is finally time again to interview and photograph hāfu again.

During the day, a selection of 12 photos and questions from the Hāfu2Hāfu project can be viewed on monitors inside the ICP (International Center of Photography) Museum in New York […]

With your help, we have managed to collect the much needed funds to keep the Hāfu2Hāfu going and we will be able to make a beautiful photo book in 2019! […]

BrightVibes picked up our story, during the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. By sharing our story and sharing it with more than 1 million follower on Facebook, they significantly contributed to the […]

Some non-Japanese editors at Gaijinpot selected 8 (hāfu)identity related questions from my Hāfu2Hāfu project and asked me to answer them.

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).

自分のアイデンティティは何か、と聞かれたら。 「アイデンティティ」と聞いて、先に思い浮かぶのは国籍や話す言語、出身地だろうか。

Nextshark, a popular online newsmagazine for Asian youth has written about our project (again) and calls Hāfu2Hāfu one of the most stunning identity projects out there.

A while ago, Nobita from the Japanese Youtube channel ‘Find Love in Japan’ interviewed me. We talked about my personal experiences as well as my findings about being half Japanese […]

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 […]

ワンテッド：ハーフ２ハーフ写真撮影とインタービューに興味のある大阪のハーフ。 Please apply here to participate in Hafu2Hafu photography and interviews.

For the first time in my life, I felt that I was in a room with people who sincerely understood and shared similar experiences as me. I was getting butterflies and chills. I’ve never liked the term “half,” or “hāfu,” and I have fought to fit in from time to time, but through the community I met, I’ve come to accept who I am more than before (it’s still a journey) and it’s okay to be misunderstood sometimes.

In a small second floor Tokyo cafe, Japan Today editor Victoria Vlisides interviewed me and then observed me during the Hafu2Hafu interview with Thai-Japanese hāfu Hisanori Tamura.

Prior to my 11 day trip to Tokyo in October, I was interviewed by Louise George Kittaka for the Japan Times about the project and my motives. Their timing coincided with […]

Camera Japan is an annual Japanese cultural festival, organised in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The main focus is on film, but they also explore the visual arts, music, dance, fashion, architecture, food, […]

Looking for Hāfu in Tokyo For the next phase of Hāfu2Hāfu, I will be interviewing and photographing hāfu in Tokyo from 12th to 24th October 2017.

*日本語は英語の後に続きます。 I am very proud to present the first 30 photos and questions of the new chapter of Hafu2Hafu for which I will try to photograph and interview one hāfu […]

When I was in Japan, I interviewed and photographed Clara Kumagai for Hāfu2Hāfu. She, in return, wrote about our meeting in Ricepaper Magazine.

You can watch and listen to the Pecha Kucha presentation I was invited to give here.

Supported by the Hapa Japan Project, Hāfu2Hāfu expands to capture hāfu, combined with every country in the world.

Following the Hapa Japan Festival and Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference in Los Angeles in February 2017, this review was published by the New York Times.