Shigeharu Higashi
@culturalnewsBorn in 1954, in Kure, Hiroshima. In 1981, Higashi moved to the U.S. and worked as a reporter for Japanese-language newspapers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also has experience as an assistant to a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Asashi Shimbun and as Japanese-language news distribution manager for Kyodo News Service’s U.S. corporation in Los Angeles. In 1998, he founded the monthly English-language newspaper Cultural News, which covers cultural news focused on Japanese art and cultural events in the Los Angeles area, as well as the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. Both the monthly newspaper Cultural News and its online edition, www.culturalnews.com, can be subscribed to for a fee.
Updated June 2014
Stories from This Author
Cultural News: An attempt to reach newcomers from Japan was turned into discovering Japanese culture enthusiasts in America
May 19, 2011 • 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 $25 a year with 12 issues. Currently Cultural News is also recognized as a daily email newsletter, edited by Higashi. The same contents of the monthly newspaper and daily email …
Exhibition: Hirokazu Kosaka’s interpretation of 12th century scroll
Dec. 14, 2010 • 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 manga created in the 12th century, was the Chojyu-Jinbutsu-Giga (Animal Person Caricature) painted by Toba Sojo. Fifty years later Kosaka, now artistic director of the Japanese American Cultural and Community …
わたしは「アメリカ系日本人」
Oct. 5, 2010 • 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。 こんな、当たり前のことを、あえて書いてみたのは、移民問題を考えるときに、当たり前のように使っている「日系〇〇人」という用語について、考え直してみることが必要と、思うからだ。 わたしはアメリカに住んでい…
