Bomb by BOMB Magazine

Author:BOMB Magazine [Magazine, BOMB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61695-380-5
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

LS How old were you when you lived in Japan?

KH I was nine.

LS Did that confuse you—that in the United States you were considered Japanese, and in Japan you were considered American?

KH Yeah, it wasn’t very pleasant to never feel I belonged in either place. Not in Pleasantville, or Tokyo. Ironically, though, my mother, because of the war and being second-generation Japanese, rejected her Japanese background, which was pretty typical of that generation, while my father, on the other hand, was deeply curious and was studying Asian culture even before he met my mother. So it’s through my father’s interest that we came back around to my mother’s culture. We actually had a lot of Asian art objects around our house growing up, especially after living in Japan for a year. So I studied Japanese dance and flower arrangement and a little bit of tea ceremony and calligraphy. There is further irony, since a great many third-generation Japanese American activists did not know as much about the roots of East Asian culture as I did—the Eurasian.

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