Kakure Gaijin

The title of this blog means "Hidden foreigner." I'm a specialist in Japanese culture in search of the kitschy, the garish, the strange and occasionally the important.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Nighttime peace gathering at Hiroshima

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Small crowd at unofficial nighttime commemoration, 6 Aug 2007 Here I am back in Hiroshima, year 2008. It is hard to believe that three years...

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Going to Japan

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Ayumi (L) and Koda Kumi (R). I downloaded the photo from english.chosun.com Ah, sorry for the delay in posting. It has been one of the most ...

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Spider-Man Japanese style!

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The Japanese version of Spider-Man (1978) Someone once told me that the Japanese are good at taking other people's ideas and making the...

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Taekwon V: Korean version of Mazinger Z

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Robot Taekwon V, Korean version of Go Nagai's Mazinger Z. Click on the picture above to see a youtube clip of the opening song posted b...

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Catchy songs by offbeat Japanese girl groups

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Ever hear a song that you find so damn irritating, but the more you listen to it, the more it worms its way into your brain? Pretty soon, yo...

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Kakure Gaijin: "Kakure gaijin" is Japanese for "Hidden foreigner." I'm back in Hawaii, having returned home after almost fifteen years on the mainland. Everywhere I go, people ask where I'm from. I look local,but have been away so long I feel like a tourist. When I'm in Japan, I look Japanese, but speak semi-fluent Japanese with an accent. And some people on the continental U.S. ("da mainland") compliment me on my English and ask what country I'm from. Thus the title of "hidden foreigner". But I feel most at home in Hawaii!

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