Tokyo Correspondence

My poem "Disco Chinatown" is in "Breaking Silence," an anthology of Asian American poetry (1983: Greenfield Review Press...

DO YR ART D WAY U WANT ANYWAY U WANT ANY WANGOL U WANT ITS UP TO U/WHAT WILL WORK FOR U. _ from "Catechism of d Neoamerican Hoodoo Chur...

what does it mean to be Japanese? what does it mean to be American? what is yellow vs. what is black/white? what is Music? what is art? and ...

as a parent, i have always tried to instill in my son pride in one's identity (race, culture, national origin). but i don't think i ...

Art is all about ego. Even if you are the kind of artist who believes that only amateurish art is about self-expression and true art is abou...

Photo by Naokazu Oinuma. A podcast interview with Isaku Kageyama and his music by "My Eyes Tokyo," from Isao Tokuhashi. ...

Assumptions a poem by Yuri Kageyama when people bad-mouth us sneering in French assumptions are being made of us a yellow face is non-litera...

poem Re poet a poem by Yuri Kageyama ninja lost in the commuter train the voice in the urban wilderness shaman moaning an improvised chant...

my head is swaying though it's deadly still red blood plasma swimming wildly my brain rotting like miso around and around my feet don...

Poetry reading at What the Dickens in Tokyo Sunday April 6. Little Yellow Slut (previous studio version) Poetry by Yuri Kageyama. Music com...

Music critic and Billboard correspondent Steve McClure's article on 1,000 Taiko Drummers in Brazil ran in The Daily Yomiuri. One of th...

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Some famous Americans are embarrassed to Be Big in Japan. Read lack of taste, intelligence and technical finesse taken for granted with Bein...

It was with a chuckle shaking his brawny body that Kenji Nakagami told me _ as though he was letting me in on a good secret _ writers aren...

Even before I wrote those stories in fourth grade, now I remember: There was that essay in second grade about what we wanted to be when we...

I was on the other end of the interviewing table the other day with Mr. Isao Tokuhashi, who has a Web page, and Podcast. What a learnin...

More from Miu: What I remember about him is the smell of his breath, like candy gone sour, when he said, putting his lips close to my ear: ...

Miu, 16, likes living in Tokyo because as a Japanese American she never felt she fit in her surroundings quite as well when she was growing ...