#nikkei

[tamapalace]

Yuki Kadota Reveals Woopatchi was Created from Overseas Sales Team Member

In the recent Nikkei MJ’s Tamagotchi in 100 Countries article, there was a little gem that you might have looked over! Recently the translated version was provided to us, so now is a good time to read it over in English like we did!

Yuki Kadota, Bandai’s Global Toy Planning Department comments on several things include the popualirty of the Tamagotchi Original in the Western market, the excitement of the Tamagotchi Uni, and how truly unites people from around the globe, and the origin of Woopatchi!

That’s right, the fan favorite character that premiered on the Tamagotchi Uni, Woopatchi was actually created by a member of their overseas sales team. How awesome is that? They were invited from overseas to help develop the new character!

#tamapalace #tamagotchi #tmgc #tamagotchiuni #tamagotchi uni #uni #tamatag #virtualpet #bandai #woopatchi #yukikadota #yuki kadota #nikkei #nikkeimj #nikkei mj

[inkwellphotograph]

some Japanese dark academia things

I love seeing people talk about living the dark academia subculture within their culture, so here are a few traditional Japanese things that give me the same sense of pride and devotion as being dark academic.

(It goes without saying, this is for all Japanese people, including nikkeijin, hāfu/daburu/mikusu, and everyone else!)

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⚘ The elegance of calligraphy. The feeling of the ink under your brush, watching the smoothness of it.

⚘ Kimono and yukata. The heaviness and comfort of a kimono, and the lightness of a yukata. As a man, I also feel a deep sense of honour on the rare occasions I wear a hakama.

⚘ Gardens, with streams of clear water and dark stones underfoot. Watching the kaede leaves turn orange with the seasons.

⚘ Ink and pencil smudged across your hands, especially if you're right-handed (and growing up sympathetic for left-handed people because of this)

⚘ The beauty of Japanese names. Each character considered for its meaning, pieced together like a puzzle to create something new.

⚘ Shrines and temples. Historic architecture nestled within gardens and forests. Musing over the ancient prayers, celebrations, and contemplations that occurred along the same steps you're walking on, however long ago.

#japan #japanese #japanese culture #nikkei #nikkeijin #dark academia #grey academia #light academia #asian culture #aapi #classic academia #romantic academia #japanese academia #aesthetic #romanticise your life #japan aesthetic #hafu #daburu #mikusu

[tanuki-kimono]

[Being Japanese], documentary in 2 parts by Greg Lam from Life where I am from, tackling the subject of identity in Japanese so called “homogeneous” society (spoiler: it’s not as homogeneous as far right would like to believe). In Greg’s own words:

What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their citizenship? A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.

Greg, father of 2 hâfu kids himself, went around interviewing several people about what they think about their identities and relation with Japan. Profils includes Ainu, “Okinawan”/Ryukyuan, but also Korean-descendants, nikkei/Japanese descendants, hâfu/biracial Japanese or kikokushijo/returnees. Second part of the documentary also covers refugees and naturalised/dual citizens (including a disabled person).

I can’t recommend you enough to watch this documentary! Be aware that some parts are difficult as they cover traumatic events/issues (racism, assault, etc) encountered by the interviewees. However, Greg Lam never falls prone to tearjerking, and many passages are amazingly covered!

#japan #video #documentary #Greg Lam #Life where I am from #identity #Japanese society #hafu #biracial #ainu #okinawa #ryuukyuu #Korean #Zainichi-Korean #nikkei #Japanese descendant #kikokushijo #refugee #dual citizen #naturalised citizen #disabled #cw: racism #cw:assault

[hyenafu]

Hot springs episode! === These characters are from my webcomic, Slightly Damned: http://sdamned.com I make sketches for based on patron ideas for my backers on Patreon: http://patreon.com/raizap

#slightly damned #sdamned #webcomic #nikkei #hakka #demon #demons #onsen #spa #hot spring #hot springs #volcano

[wearejapanese]

Open Letter to Nikkei on Palestine

We, the undersigned Nikkei artists, academics, cultural workers, and people of conscience, pledge our solidarity with the Palestinian people, who have suffered 75 years of Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, military occupation, and ethnic cleansing. In response to the open call from Palestinian artists and cultural workers for a cultural and economic boycott of Israel, we pledge to accept neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding from any institutions or corporations linked to its government until it ends its illegal occupation of Palestine. We call on all Nikkei people and organizations to join us in this boycott. 

#Nikkei #Japanese Diaspora #Palestine

[stealthatsweater]

read the rest of the article at PRINCECHOISAN's youtube page here

#youtube #choi san #san #ateez #nikkei #interview

[himikochan]

Today was a whole lot of a day: this is more of a feelings update

I spent the day prepping food for the family- my grandma lives in senior housing and she had a party room reserved for us to come over to celebrate Thanksgiving. None of us are especially partial to the "holiday", and we're more like a Day of Mourning crowd, but it's important to my grandma. She's of the generation put in the concentration camps and there's all these Americanisms that perforate through her Nisei life.

For years, she did Thanksgiving with her oldest brother and his wife (both also interned and Nisei) but earlier this year they moved out of town to live with their daughter as they are both about 95 now. It's interesting the ways they wholeheartedly welcomed "Americana" in their life: when they were permitted to leave the concentration camps, it was with the orders that they would not educate their children in Japanese, form the kinds of organizations/communities they did before, and would become model citizens. So my grandma and her siblings could read kana but not kanji and had/have difficultly speaking, but understand at a high level when they are spoken to.

They all peppered their lives with the great conflicting dualisms of American immigrant life- deeply patriotic but distrusting of the government, celebrating Christian holidays full of enthusiasm and hardly any of them baptized as Christians, running successful businesses that employed other minorities but did not invite them to eat with the family. Think of ardent Cubs fans, frothing Easter bonnets, shooting competitions, Christmas trees overflowing with Coke decorations, and taiko drums made out of the backyard tree.

so like, a LOT rolled up for me re: "American" holidays even without the genocide of indigenous folx

so sort of highlights of today:

I woke up hella early to get in the car with my mama and shout our way through the AMERICAN IDIOT album which is always a good way to start off this shit

I've been helping her cook and prep stuff for about 3 days and I mf cooked the turkey even though I HATE turkey my dudes I don't like it but my grandma wanted it so here's a picture of my first plate

My siblings still aren't talking to each other but they both showed up??? :S in my honest opinion, I'm not taking either side not because I'm being some kind of moderate or apologist but because I think they're BOTH in the wrong. I love them, they're flawed people, and they've both done shitty things to the other but pretty equally (they keep trading off who is snubbing who).

My baby cousin showed up- she's been spotty with that kind of stuff since her ma died (our mothers are sisters) so it was really lovely to see her. I was one of her primary caregivers for a long time, before I was really even grown, and it seems like we're both ready to have a relationship again.

Also, today I caught "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" on xrt today!I first heard it when the late xrt dj Lin Brehmer played it last year on Thanksgiving when he hosted. I was cooking by myself for the family and was so happy to share it with Lin Brehmer- I really do miss him very much every day. So I snapped a picture of my grandma's kitchen when I listened today and tagged xrt- I know another dj I like Ryan Arnold checks the tags and when I met him, he was delighted to meet me in person because he remembered all the things I said about xrt and his slot specifically :)

Later on in the afternoon, we started inviting in my grandma's acquaintances from the building in to have a bite and take home some leftovers and I'm like... continuously jarred by older Japanese that really blame individual Japanese-Americans for not speaking Japanese. The guy I'm thinking of was Issei (first gen) but around my grandma's age so in his 80s-90s and seemed to have moved to the US much later in life. He was very rude about her Japanese skills- even though he spoke very little English and is her "friend"- and chided her for not teaching us more Japanese and it's like MY DUDE the US GOVERNMENT dropped the atom bomb on her cousins and immediately told Japanese in America to integrate so like? wtf

also, the 'feelings bingus' saga continues: as-in he's still texting me and sending me memes on insta and I'm not responding because I'm fed up with this shit

We ate hella early because grandma and her friends get tired early, so when I popped home I made a quick ramen with leftover broth and ham because I was sick of the smell of the food I've been cooking for days

Tomorrow I'm hoping to do some knitting or work on my Bocksten mini-projects, but also!

I found a job posting I'm going to apply for! It's sort of a temp position, just 3 months, but it seems fulltime and at the same wage I used to make. I really, really, really miss my old job. But I really miss what it was 2 years ago, not what it was when I left.

#I'm putting this in the #Nikkei #tag because it contains relatable stuff #but please don't reblog this because I don't want my sibling stuff leaving my blog #himiko checks in #daily check in

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Photographs taken by Yon Shimizu, a Japanese-Canadian who was exiled from the west coast of Canada to Ontario during the second World War, along with hundreds of other Japanese-Canadian men. In 1942, he worked along with several dozen other men as a farm labourer with the Ontario Farm Service Force near Glencoe, equidistant from Sarnia, London and Chatham.  These are photographs he took of the sugarbeet harvest, and were digitized from a DVD of Yon Shimizu’s scrapbook by the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive. All dated 1942 though they definitely show a range of time during that summer and fall - final harvesting of sugarbeets is in late October or November, and the last photo shows the men huddling from the cold in November.

1) At Glencoe train station; the ‘49′ Gang, according to the caption. Left to right: Tsutomu "Stum" Shimizu, E. Ono, T. Okamoto, T. Kuwabara.

2) Blocking 48 Gang, that is, thinning or "blocking" the sugar beets; left to right: S. Miyashita, Y. Madokoro, S. Kawahara, J. Henmi.

3) “He-Men.” Left to right: B. Hoita, K. Goto, T. Hoita.

4) “Siesta Time!” T. Okamoto taking a siesta during the beet harvest.

5) “Block Busters!” Showing off some huge sugarbeets during the thinning (blocking) process.

6) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Butch Hoita and Stum Shimizu.

7) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Tommy Hoita and Tomo Okamoto.

8) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Stum Okamoto and Esao Ono.

9) Gang 5 "Toppers A-1" Tom Kuwabara and Yon Shimizu. Toppers defoliate the beets as close to harvesting as possible.

10) Lunch, Cold November Day

#japanese canadian internment #internment camps #japanese canadians #canadian history #farm camp #nikkei #nikkei kanadajin #canada during world war 2 #dictatorship within democracy #relocation camp #defence of canada regulations #glencoe #kent county #chatham #london ontario #racism in canada #black and white photography #archival photography

[papihomo]

Happy Setsubun! This year I was oni and the amount of beans that fell on my head might as well have killed off some of my braincells

#lucifer talks #setsubun #nikkei #ainu #repunkuru #mixed kid things #interfaith

[mytreasuredaesthetics]

#kanoa igarashi #candid #candid photo #nikkei #nisei #california #huntington beach #japanese american #asian american #aapi #aapi athletes #surfer #surfers

[ourlordapollo]

Figure skating has been so crazy good for my arm development??? Turns out when you trick yourself into holding your arms up 90° at intervals for an hour-long session, it may contribute to your lateral delt development. Go figure.

#ask to tag #yes im taking my strength training seriously again #still trying to work out what to do with my legs bc if i train them too hard during the week then i can't skate #but im doing progressive overload w my arms so eventually im gonna get top heavy #much 2 think about... #face of the oracle #delphi washington #nikkei

[tamapalace]

Nikkei MJ’s Tamagotchi in 100 Countries Article Features Members of the Tamagotchi Community!

Nikkei, a popular Japanese publication has just released an article about the popularity of Tamagotchi overseas, and how Tamagotchi is available in 100 countries! This article is featured in the February 26th, 2024 edition of the Nikkei MJ publication.

Nikkei featured a few members of the Tamagotchi community in this article, Julie aka toloveLfromVine, and Tamazingplace! Julie was asked questions about her Tamagotchi collection, and how she first developed an interest in Tamagotchi.

image source: Nikkei

It appears that Nikkei is super interested in the popularity of the Tamagotchi outside of Japan and how others are finding the branding, and their loyalty to the brand. This comes as no surprise, as we saw a similar article calling out the popularity of the Tamagotchi Original in the United States from Nikkei Business Publications back in August, 2023.

They specifically call out that there is a rapidly increasing passionate fanbase, and they are leveraging social media platforms to network and sell Tamagotchi’s.

Translations of the article have been provided:

#tamapalace #tamagotchi #tmgc #tamatag #virtualpet #bandai #nikkei #nikkeimj #nikkei mj #jp #tolovelfromvine #tamazingplace

[engagedpureland]

New short Buddhist film available!

"A Profound Silence" explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ people and allies as they seek to make Jodo Shinshu temples fully inclusive spaces for all, fulfilling Pure Land Buddhism's fundamental ethos of radical welcoming.

This 28-minute film is produced by Ichi-Mi, the LGBTQ+ affinity group of Gardena Buddhist Church. It premiered on April 2 and is now available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/814468816

#buddhism #buddhist #engaged Buddhism #Jodo Shinshu #Shin Buddhism #lgbtq #Nikkei #aapi #asian american

[hyenafu]

Happy Pride, everyone! This wallpaper was based on a suggestion by Trinary, who asked to see an assortment of Demons playing in the waters of a rainbow waterfall. I decided to make it into a piece celebrating some (but not all) of the queer characters in Slightly Damned.

For my June 2022 patrons. http://patreon.com/raizap

#slightly damned #sdamned #j thorndyke #nikkei #azurai #hakka #kazai #sahne #wallpaper #lgbtqa #pride month #queer pride

[vocaloid-song-of-the-day]

It Disappear Someday by nikkei feat. Hatsune Miku

#vocaloid song of the day #vocaloid #hatsune miku #nikkei #Youtube

[poi-son-ous]

Título: メルディ / Merudi / Meredy Música y letra: Nikkei Tuning: Bibi Ilustración: ylu Agradecimientos especiales: amr Traducción al inglés: Trackmyn Y. Vídeo original: https://youtu.be/sFtXBB5aKS8 Letra:

愛情の対価　熟れて腐った水槽 僕らは記憶に蝕まれる Por el precio del amor, la cisterna maduró y se pudrió. Seremos devorados por nuestros propios recuerdos. 愛憎も哀楽も　雄弁に僕を諭した 声が聞こえる El amor y el odio, dolor y placer; todos ellos me amonestaron tan elocuentemente. Oigo sus voces. 貴方がくれた猛毒に触れて 爛れた日々の中で生きていけるのか ¿Puedo vivir los días supurados tras ser tocados por el veneno virulento que me has concedido? 全部全部消えるのに 澄んだ藍を覚えていたいの 情愛も残映もあの時の悼みも 消えない癒えないまま 生きていく Aunque todo, todo se va a desvanecer, quiero recordar el añil transparente. Aunque ni el afecto, ni el fulgor, ni el luto de ese tiempo van a desvanecerse o a sanar yo seguiré viviendo. 哀情の開花　肥えて廃って愁いて 僕らは記憶に呪われている Una flor de dolor sale, creciendo con fuerza, muriendo y sufriendo un corazón roto. Estamos malditos por nuestros propios recuerdos. 歳月も耄碌も　肝心なものは奪わない 哀を掬って Ni el tiempo ni la senilidad me arrebatarán mis cosas preciadas. Alza mis penas— どうして？覚えていたいの？ 首絞めるのに？ 解らないな ¿Por qué? ¿Quieres recordar? ¿Aunque me estés estrangulando? No te entiendo. 藍も哀も要らないくだらない 沈んで溢れて溺れてしまうなら 食う吐くの永遠も泡沫に消し去って バイバイ　夢で逢いましょう Añil y dolor; no los necesito. Son inútiles. Si voy a hundirme, desbordarme y ahogarme, entonces déjame eliminar por completo la eternidad de comer y vomitar adiós; encontrémonos en un sueño. 燻んだ藍の水面を仰いで 腐った脳が揺らした感情 寵愛も追憶もハリボテでいいのに 流れたものを拒めないな Mirando arriba, hacia la superficie añil apagado, mi cerebro podrido ha revuelto mis emociones. No me parece un problema que los favores y lo evocador sean de papel maché No puedo rechazar las cosas que ya han desaparecido. ねえ全部全部消えるから 澄んだ藍を覚えていたいよ 「情愛も喪失もその胸に在るから」 なんて　解っている Oye, como todo, todo se va a desvanecer, quiero recordar el añil transparente. “El afecto, y la pérdida residen en ese corazón-” Sí, ya lo sé. ねえ群青　燈が絶えようとも 泪咲いて　僕を枯らして 軋む心　体が重くてもいいよ いいよ　だから Oye, ultramar. ¡Aunque las luces se fundan, haz que tus lágrimas florezcan y me hagan marchitarme! Mi corazón cruje. No me importa si eres pesado. No me importa en absoluto. Así que... 触れて Tócame.

#Nikkei #kafu #cevio #traducción