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Cultural News: An attempt to reach newcomers from Japan was turned into discovering Japanese culture enthusiasts in America
Shigeharu Higashi
Cultural News is a monthly English language newspaper featuring traditional Japanese culture events in Southern California. The 8-page tabloid has printed 6,000 copies since July 1998 in Los Angeles by Japan-born Shige Higashi. It is distributed to Japanese American community centers in Southern California and directly mailed to subscribers for …
Exhibition: Hirokazu Kosaka’s interpretation of 12th century scroll
Shigeharu Higashi
When his fellow classmates in Wakayama, Japan, were engulfed in reading the popular manga of the day, growing up as a teenager in post-war Japan, Hirokazu Kosaka found his imagination transfixed by a scroll he saw at the Kozanji Temple in Kyoto. The scroll, considered to be the world’s oldest …
わたしは「アメリカ系日本人」
Shigeharu Higashi
ことばは「関係」をあらわすものである。わたしを生んで育ててくれた男女は、わたしや、わたしの妹・弟にとっては「父・母」という存在である。わたしには子供がいないのだが、妹夫婦、弟夫婦に子供ができると、親族間では、この男女のことを「おじいさん・おばあさん」と呼ぶようになる。