The encounter took place near the Futenma base. The environment surrounding Japanese women who move to America to marry American soldiers changes greatly with the times. Budei Hiromi, who lives in Orange County in Southern California, was born in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, and was 56 years old at the …
Read Part 1 >> The sealed first work His first Hollywood film was "Midnight Meat Train." Kitamura himself cast Bradley Cooper, who was still unknown at the time, in the lead role. However, this film, which the distributor Lionsgate had high hopes for, was "eliminated," in Kitamura's words, after an …
Moved to Australia at age 17 After a successful career in Japan, film director Kitamura Ryuhei moved to Hollywood in 2007 and is currently involved in several projects. He says, "I grew up watching Hollywood movies." When he lost his mother when he was in elementary school, he moved from …
In the 1970s, he went to Oregon for agricultural training. We usually see Japanese vegetables in Japanese supermarkets and Japanese restaurants. I have never really thought about where and by whom they are grown. I had always assumed they were grown by Japanese farmers, but then an acquaintance of mine …
Read Part 1 >> From Warner to Disney In 1993, Itokazu began his training at Warner Bros. "At the time, there were still few people working in CG, and no one around me with experience, and no one to teach me. But I was determined to get out of my …
I wanted to be an art teacher When my daughter, who is now in the 8th grade, was in elementary school, we would always go to the cinema together to watch Disney animated movies. The one she was most fascinated with was "Tangled". And when she first saw it at …
When searching for "Yamamoto Ayaka" on the internet, one comes across various blogs about the cuisine at her restaurant in Naha. She is widely known as a chef who inherited the Ryukyu royal cuisine, and I had always wanted to visit her restaurant, but unfortunately in 2012 "Ryukyu Cuisine Yamamoto …
Japanese mixed with English In February 2016, I picked up a book for the first time in 30 years. Last year, my 18-year-old son, born in the United States, graduated from high school in the suburbs of Los Angeles and came to live with my parents in Japan. I stayed …
The desire to popularize poke bowls Recently, poke specialty restaurants have been increasing in the Los Angeles area. Poke originated in Hawaii, and is made by tossing raw tuna with seaweed and onion in sesame oil and soy sauce. It is a familiar food here in California, where many Japanese …
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