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Interview: Virgil Westdale

Hapa 442nd veteran and pilot. Born in Indiana in 1918 to a Japanese American father and an English/German mother. This album introduces the following 5 clips from his interview on …

video interview

Interview: Kip Fulbeck

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Kip Fulbeck was born in 1965 to a Chinese mother and English/Irish father. This album introduces the following 19 clips from his interview on May 3, 2006 followed by his …

Video interview

Interview: Terry Janzen

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Terry Janzen was born in Tokyo in 1930 to a Japanese mother and American father. This album introduces the following 8 clips from her interview on August 27, 2012 followed …

Video interview

Enka singer in Japan. Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His African American grandfather married a Japanese woman. This album introduces the following 15 clips from his interview on March 30, 2010 …

Video interview

Interview: Johnnie Morton

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Johnnie James Morton, Jr. was born in Inglewood, CA in 1971, the son of an African American father and Japanese American mother. Morton is a former professional football player. This …

Video interview

Interview: Mike Shinoda

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Michael Kenji Shinoda, a member of Linkin Park, was born and raised in Agoura Hills, a suburb north of Los Angeles, to a Japanese American father and Caucasian mother. This …

Video interview

Good Luck Soup documentary

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Good Luck Soup is a transmedia documentary project about one grandmother and her role as the family matriarch. Revolving around the life of Eva Hashiguchi, an 87-year-old Japanese American grandmother, …

Film and Video

American in a Foreign Motherland

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This album documents my first meeting as an adult with my Japanese uncle, as well as our "pilgrimage" back to our family's furusato in Wakayama. Though my mother is Japanese, I was …

family history

Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness

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Photos and video from the event "Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness" held by Discover Nikkei on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at the National Center for the Preservation …

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The Hapa Collection

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What are you?

That's the question posed to visitors to the Japanese American National Museum's exhibition "kip fulbeck: part asian / 100% hapa" (Los Angeles, June 8 …

online exhibition

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