Megumi Nishikura's guest appearances

Megumi Nishikura

Tokyo Podcast

SBS Japanese - SBSの日本語放送

Richard Graham

Michael Howard

Eiji Han Shimizu

Melissa Feineman

John Bardos

Neil Simon

Ashley Thompson

Paul Papadimitriou

Anton Kusters

Ruth Jarman

Ashley Olson

Amy Chavez

Paul Christie

Alex Brooke

Uncle Polyglot

OwlTail

Lara Perez Takagi

Japan has a reputation as being a homogenous society with very little in the way of multiculturalism, at times even going so far as to proudly proclaim themselves as mono-ethnic. However this is slowly changing as the number of mixed race people living in Japan grows with an estimated one in thirty babies born in Japan today are being born to a couple where at least one parent is not Japanese. On this show I talk to Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura who are making a documentary film about the lives of five half Japanese or 'Hafus' living in Japan. For some being a mixed race person living in Japan has posed no problems but others have struggled to find their own identity and even going to far as to hide their non Japanese side.

<p>Japan has a reputation as being a homogenous society with very little in the way of multiculturalism, at times even going so far as to proudly proclaim themselves as mono-ethnic. However this is slowly changing as the number of mixed race people living in Japan grows with an estimated one in thirty babies born in Japan today are being born to a couple where at least one parent is not Japanese.</p> <p>On this show I talk to Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura who are making a documentary film about the lives of five half Japanese or 'Hafus' living in Japan. For some being a mixed race person living in Japan has posed no problems but others have struggled to find their own identity and even going to far as to hide their non Japanese side.</p>

Being a Hafu in Japan with Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura