沖縄系アメリカ人のスーザン・ミヤギ・マコーマックはニューヨークを拠点とするライターで、ニューヨーク市の日本に関するあらゆる情報源として、2011 年 5 月にウェブサイト「JapanCulture•NYC」を開設しました。また、彼女はShrinecastle.comで沖縄の伝統と日本文化への興味についてブログを書いています。
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Bento On Demand でお好みの弁当を
2015年9月8日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
「あなたのお好みで」は、ファストフードチェーンのバーガーキングが40年間使ってきたスローガンで、厳格なメニューに固執するのではなく、顧客が望むバーガーを作ることを奨励するものです。これは、日本料理では一般的に受け入れられていない概念です。ニューヨークの日本食料品店で、あらかじめ包装された弁当を買ったことがありますか？「わあ、これはすごくおいしいけど、ごぼうきんぴらの代わりにひじきがあったらいいのに」と思ったことはありませんか？ひじきとごぼうきんぴらの違いをご存知ですか？既製…
Documentary Explores Being “Hafu” in Japan
2013年8月6日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
Daddy: Check the box that says “Caucasian.”Me: Really? I didn’t know because I’m not completely Caucasian. What about mom?Daddy: The child’s race is determined by the father’s side. That conversation between my father and me took place when I was around eight or nine years old. It was the first time I filled out official school paperwork on my own. It was also the first time I gave any thought to my race—both of …
Enka Singer Jero Delights Diverse Japan Society Audience
2012年6月19日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
A diverse crowed filled Japan Society’s auditorium Saturday night. They were young, middle-aged, and not so young. They were Japanese, half Japanese, part Japanese, and non-Japanese. They were wearing jeans, dresses, and kimono. And they were all there for the New York debut of Jero, a Pittsburgh native who has achieved success in Japan in the unlikeliest of professions: He’s an enka singer. Enka, a Japanese ballad that became popular during the postwar era, generally has a fan base that …
Japanese Pop Singer AK is Saving Japan with Your Love
2012年3月9日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
Akemi Kakihara is a Japanese pop star who has released 14 albums with EMI Music Japan, one of Japan’s major record labels. Her latest album, Say That You Love Me, came out in August 2010, and her two most recent US singles appear on compilation albums. But she’d rather talk about the children. The children are preschoolers in Miyagi and Fukushima, where AK (as she prefers to be called) visited six months after a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami in …
Fukushima City: Six Months Later - Part 2
2011年12月5日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
Read Part 1 >>Professor Takahashi is an intelligent man whose face shows no signs of stress despite the hardships that have befallen his country. When discussing the nuclear crisis and radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture, he speaks matter-of-factly and explains the science in layman’s terms. Armed with Fukushima University’s state-of-the-art sievert meter and a scientific background, he admits he has a base knowledge of radiation, which helps him understand the nuclear situation better than the average citizen. Although he feels …
Fukushima City: Six Months Later - Part 1
2011年11月28日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
In September I had the opportunity to visit Fukushima City, Japan, as a guest of Takayuki Takahashi, Vice President of Fukushima University. I first met Professor Takahashi in June, when he and his team of researchers attended a medical trade show in New York City. Almost as much as he wanted to promote the school’s medical invention, he wanted to promote the resilience of Fukushima residents after the horrific earthquake and tsunami of March 11 set off a nuclear crisis. …
Junko Fisher brings traditional Okinawan dance to New York
2010年11月17日 • スーザン・ミヤギ・マコーミック
By day Yoshitake Kamiya worked in the fields of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. By night he performed traditional Okinawan dances and acted in plays with Taishin Za, a famous local theater group. For twenty years, between 1968 and 1988, he also traveled the world as an official member of Kumi Odori (Okinawan-style opera with elements of singing, dancing, and acting), introducing Okinawan culture to North Africa, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and even New York. Kamiya also introduced the art …
