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Japanese-Americans return to their roots

edit Steve McCarty 2006-01-25 14:14 WST  ·  ·

This is an interview with Donna Fujimoto, a colleague at Osaka Jogakuin College, who has been researching Japanese-Americans in Japan. The Japancasting host is also a University of Hawaii graduate, for whom encounters with Japanese-Americans were a factor in becoming interested in specializing in Japan.

Improper Bostonian in Japan

edit Steve McCarty 2005-07-29 15:37 WST  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
On the occasion of Japancasting entering the Apple iTunes Music Store, let me introduce the great adventure my life has been in places like Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Honolulu, and then having an international family in Japan ... things like surfing, playing baseball in two countries, remembering Woodstock and New York ladies while maintaining a family rating. The formal bio-data I won't talk about this time is being a Professor of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) -- teaching topics such as current events, human rights and bilingualism -- at the first school in the world to give iPods to all students ... President of the World Association for Online Education from 1998 to 2007 ... born in Boston, specialized in Asian Studies and then Japan at the University of Hawaii ... online library with a 4-star rating, very useful for research, in 1997, 2001 and 2005 from the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library... overall home page.