Comments on: Racial hybrids revealed!

By: RMilner

RMilner — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:57:09 +0000

My daughter’s a haafu and has green eyes like her dad. Can I look forwards to a wealthy retirement if I launch her on a Japanese media career?

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:00:04 +0000

Haha, how funny. I suppose all countries had these rumours about what terrible things would happen if one bedded a foreigner. It's now hard to believe that interracial marriage was illegal in the USA up until the 50s/60s! Nowadays the Japanese media industry is dominated by half-Japanese people and Korean-Japanese people. Interesting how things change huh? I just wrote an article on my top 10 half-Japanese celebrities.

By: doinkies

doinkies — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:44:59 +0000

One successful 'half' I can think of is Sawajiri Erika, an actress, model and gravure idol. She's part Algerian, and so is her mother.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:59:38 +0000

“At least racism in Japan isn’t violent, with lynchings and cross burnings and shit.”

I take it you’re not familiar with the anti-Korean riots after the Kanto earthquake in 1923:
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto/denewa.html

and more recently:
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/389716

Overall there is much less racial tension and violence simply because Japan is still more ethnically homogenous than North America or Europe. Nevertheless, Japanese racists, like racists elsewhere, do use violence against those they hate.

By: Claytonian

Claytonian — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:36:58 +0000

The term double is taking the role of half. I still use half, but I am think half-breed when I say it. Whether or not that is racist is moot.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:33:05 +0000

And that’s one of the biggest problems here, though it’s a problem everywhere. People assume that when a woman marries a Black man she’s marrying him because he has a big dick. They don’t understand the idea that love could possibly extend to other cultures.

And this is a problem in every non-African country, not just Japan.

By: ViolentAJ

ViolentAJ — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:36:02 +0000

Japanese don’t mind sex with foreigners, as long as said foreigner isn’t Black.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:58:52 +0000

Japanese are very accepting of “half” breeds. So much so that they still call them “halfs”
At least racism in Japan isn’t violent, with lynchings and cross burnings and shit.
My kids are gonna grow up and kick-ass. I know that much.

By: Aki

Aki — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:47:18 +0000

I like Tsuchiya Anna (土屋アンナ), who has a Russian-American father and a Japanese mother. She is a fashion model, an actress and a singer…really talented in all of the things she does.

TV Commercial for Edwin Jeans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMOQeZJ9QM

Taste My Skin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lK7BeopQc8

Live in Shinjyuku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQmmN1_giQ

By: nightfish

nightfish — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:57:08 +0000

Rie Miyazawa is another rather famous haafu.

By: James (admin)

James (admin) — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:05:35 +0000

スケベ :

As much as I like Maria Ozawa, I don’t think a porn actress would be a good example of “half” Japanese celebrities having mainstream popularity and respect in Japanese society.

By: スケベ

スケベ — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:56:39 +0000

I forgot; here's a work-safe Maria Ozawa link. Ave Maria!

By: スケベ

スケベ — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:52:10 +0000

For a good looking "half" you could give a much better example than Becky - 小澤マリア (Maria Ozawa). Thank God for race-mixing!

By: Ponta

Ponta — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:12:48 +0000

It seems Japanese at the time were so impressed by the beard of the western people. And Japanese politician at the time started imitating western people and that is why many of them had beard.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊藤博文
 http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/板垣退助

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:44:20 +0000

I can’t be the only one that think ハーフ such as Becky fall only in the extremes of the hotness scale. I think Becky, for example, isn’t even close to being hot.

But Takigawa Crystal? That MTV VJ Rena? Yes please.