Hanako Tokita · March 2008

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Hanako Tokita · March, 2008
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joined 23 March 2007 · 66 posts

I am a Japanese-English translator based in Tokyo.

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Japan: Views on Yasukuni, the movie

East Asia31 March 2008

A documentary film about the controversial Yasukuni shrine, shot by a Chinese filmmaker through funding by a Japanese government agency, has sparked debate and discussion after a group within the...

Japan: Obama gets support from Japanese city

East Asia16 March 2008

Excitement is growing in a sleepy fishing town on the coast of the Japan Sea. The city of Obama, whose name means “little beach” in Japanese, is receiving unusual attention...

Japan: American enka singer makes waves

East Asia7 March 2008

The first ever American-born enka singer, Jero, has become the talk of the Japanese blogosphere the past weeks as he made his debut with the single “Umiyuki (Ocean Snow)”. The...

Japan: Is it obscenity or is it art?

East Asia3 March 2008

On February 19, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that a Robert Mapplethorpe book, confiscated at Narita Airport in 1999 on the basis of its perceived pornographic content, does not violate...