EASC Film Screening with Producer/ Director: Megumi Nishikura, "HAFU - The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan"

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January 22, 2016
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Ohio Union, Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room (1739 N. High Street)

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2016-01-22 18:00:00 2016-01-22 21:00:00 EASC Film Screening with Producer/ Director: Megumi Nishikura, "HAFU - The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan" In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at The Ohio State University, January 2016, join the East Asian Studies Center and the Multicultural Center for a screening of "HAFU - The Mixed Race Experience in Japan" (2013, 85 minutes, in Japanese/English/Spanish with English subtitles). Producer/director Megumi Nishikura will introduce the film and hold a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of the screening.According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, one in forty-nine babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent. This newly emerging minority in Japan is under-documented and under-explored in both literature and media. The feature-length HD documentary film, “HAFU – The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan” seeks to open this increasingly important dialogue. The film explores race, diversity, multiculturalism, nationality, and identity within the mixed-race community of Japan.Film Synopsis: With an ever increasing movement of people between places in this transnational age, there is a mounting number of mixed-race people in Japan; some visible, others not. “Hafu” is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan. The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation. For some of these hafus, Japan is the only home they know; for some, living in Japan is an entirely new experience; and others are caught somewhere between two different worlds.This event is free and open to the public, sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.For further information, contact Amy Carey of the East Asian Studies Center (carey.189@osu.edu, 614-688-4253) or Jack Nguyen of the Multicultural Center (nguyen.1598@osu.edu, 614-688-8449). Ohio Union, Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room (1739 N. High Street) America/New_York public

In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at The Ohio State University, January 2016, join the East Asian Studies Center and the Multicultural Center for a screening of "HAFU - The Mixed Race Experience in Japan" (2013, 85 minutes, in Japanese/English/Spanish with English subtitles). Producer/director Megumi Nishikura will introduce the film and hold a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of the screening.

According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, one in forty-nine babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent. This newly emerging minority in Japan is under-documented and under-explored in both literature and media. The feature-length HD documentary film, “HAFU – The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan” seeks to open this increasingly important dialogue. The film explores race, diversity, multiculturalism, nationality, and identity within the mixed-race community of Japan.

Film Synopsis: With an ever increasing movement of people between places in this transnational age, there is a mounting number of mixed-race people in Japan; some visible, others not. “Hafu” is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan. The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation. For some of these hafus, Japan is the only home they know; for some, living in Japan is an entirely new experience; and others are caught somewhere between two different worlds.

This event is free and open to the public, sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.

For further information, contact Amy Carey of the East Asian Studies Center (carey.189@osu.edu, 614-688-4253) or Jack Nguyen of the Multicultural Center (nguyen.1598@osu.edu, 614-688-8449).