Ten Thousand Things
Multicultural Webfinds

"Ten Thousand Things" is a Buddhist expression representing the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of everything in the universe.

This online resource was founded by Jean Miyake Downey, a KJ contributing editor deeply interested in multicultural and transnational issues, especially concerning peace & justice. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and lawyer, she takes a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to the nexuses between historical and contemporary hybridity and fusion; global cultural trauma and historical healing; the revival and survival of traditional and indigenous cultures; and global human rights movements.

Joining Ten Thousand Things from February 2008, Nina Melendez Ibarra is a creative writer with heritage from Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico, now residing in Kyushu, Japan.  She finds inspiration in the subtle but powerful movements made by ordinary people to spread peace and cross-cultural communication; her own involvement with disadvantaged youth in the U.S., Ghana, and Japan has solidified her concern for children's issues. 

Also joining the team is Kimberly Hughes, who grew up in Nevada and Arizona, studying abroad twice as a university student, in Limoges, France, and Hiroshima, Japan. After several years in the international education field and obtaining her M.A. in sociocultural anthropology, Kimberly landed in Tokyo in 2001, where she is now a freelance translator, writer, editor and community organizer in fields relating to peace, social justice and human rights.

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• Lydia Venieri's photograph exhibition "NO EVIL" opens May 10 at Gallery Terra Tokyo
• Interview with Shinya Watanabe, curator of "Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art Under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9" online at Japanfocus.org
• Global Article 9 Conference Workshop: Exploring the Connections Between Music and Peace
• GLOBAL ARTICLE 9 CONFERENCE – 4-6 May, 2008 in Tokyo
• Grace Lee Boggs: "We're the leaders we've been looking for."
• Global Hapa: A Conversation with Kip Fulbeck
• FREE TIBET
• YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE
• PHOTOS from STONEWALK JAPAN 2005 & STONEWALK KOREA 2007
• STONEWALK KOREA 2007: Apology for the Occupation of Korea and the Suffering of
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• Feb. 19 - "Day of Remembrance" & July 3-6, 2008 - "Whose America? Who's American? Diversity, Civil Liberties, & Social Justice" Japanese American National Museum Conference in Denver
• 850,000 in Japan say "NO" to Rokkasho Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture
• "INTO THE ATOMIC SUNSHINE – POST-WAR ART UNDER THE JAPANESE PEACE CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 9" @ THE PUFFIN ROOM in NYC through Feb. 10, 2008
• V. SHORT (and delightful) STORIES from Tokyo – NY – London (more cities coming up) • HITOHIKO (one moment) HITOBAN (one night) • Jan. 29, 2008 @7-10 p.m at the PINK COW, Tokyo
• Pakistan’s Political Future: Live Webcast with Imran Khan at the Asia Society website 1/25
• 10th Anniversary Gung Haggis Fat Choy –Toddish McWong’s Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner Spectacular in Vancouver
• Alice Walker & Chung Hyun Kyung: "WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR"
• ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE – World Social Forum 2008 in Asia & Tokyo-Arakawa on 1/26
• Cyberspace Graveyard for Disappeared People & Another Year of Living Dangerously for Tens of Thousands of Human Rights Activists in the Philippines and throughout Asia
• MAYORS FOR PEACE win 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Award
• Alter-globalist, Ecofeminist, & Biodiversity Activist VANDANA SHIVA wins 2007 Blue Planet Award
• Survival: Indonesian Military & Malaysian Govt: Key Abusers of Tribal Peoples
• Environmental & Connecting Artists: Keiko Miyamori, Chikara Miura & Toshi Makihara
• Global Climate Activists Rally Worldwide - from Manila to Taipei to Athens to Fairbanks
• Makihara & Matsumoto, et al. -- free Improvisation FROM Philly to Shibuya to Yokohama Park
• ...from Boston to Osaka (Dec. 16) to Tokyo (in January '08) – FOUR STORIES JAPAN
• PRINTED MATTER PRESS: Literary Salon in Tokyo on Dec. 8
• GREENPEACE: 69% Japanese Against Whaling
• Exploring Ancient Hybridity –"YOSHINOGARI: Ancient Korean Culture in Japan" at National Museum of Korea & Saga Prefecture Museum
• Noriko Shintani & Rattlesnake Annie: PEACE CONCERT to support PEACE IN ASIA & ARTICLE 9
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• FREE PAKISTAN: Ali Eteraz – PakistanPolitics.Net – Asia Society Emergency Townhall Meeting Online – Worldwide lawyers and activists support Pakistani lawyers and democratic activists – Amnesty Int USA Online Action
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• Nara National Museum: "The 59th Annual Exhibition of Shosoin Treasures" – Oct. 27 to Nov. 12
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• Pan-Indigenous Dialogue: Ainu leader Tadashi Kato on the UN's 2007 Resolution on Indigenous Rights
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• U.N. Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Environmentalist Noel Brown, and the story of NYC's Hottest Activist Nightclub at the GLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL JAPAN
• The "Tibet Within" – DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE – at Global Peace Film Festival Japan Oct 5-7
• STAND WITH BURMESE MARCHERS – AVAAZ Petition & Buddhist Peace Fellowship Action
• History Wars in Japan: Stopping the Erasure of Coerced WWII "Suicides" in History Texts
• 'Make Art, Not War" – Jimmy Tsutomo Mirikitani & Linda Hattendorf in THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI
• Aichi International Women's Film Festival 2007
• Living Lives of Resistance Against WMD: Think Outside the Bomb Conference at UC Santa Barbara – August 16-19
• Corbin Harney praying in Carlos DeMenezes' TRESPASSING: Where Turtle Island intersects with Kazakhstan, Japan, & the Rest of the World
• Healing the Most Atom-Bombed Place on Earth: Shoshone Elder CORBIN HARNEY
• Steven Okazaki's WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN airs on HBO in North America August 6
• "The Chan Legacy" – Todd Wong's Vancouver Chinese-First Nations-European-Canadian Family Featured on CBC August 19 (Rescheduled)
• AogashimaTrance, Taarab queen Bi Kidude, and "Imaginary Folk Music" at 23rd Tokyo Summer Festival
• Pollution Kills 500,000 (or More?) Annually in China – Video on Environmental Grassroots Protesters in Wuxi and Xiamen – Activists win in Hangzhou
• IKEA Store Construction Destroys Ancient Chinese Tombs in Nanjing – Grassroots Activists Succeed in Hangzhou – Old Jazz Band Leaves Shanghai's Colonial-era Peace Hotel
• Global Article Nine and Peace Activist YUMI KIKUCHI will speak in Hiroshima on July 1 and Kyoto on July 28
• INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARTY in Ebisu with peace9.org
• Is Freedom in Danger? – AGAINST COERCION: REFUSING TO STAND FOR "Kimigayo" at Sophia University
• Scott Tsuchitani's Incarcerated Hello Kitty montages -- "Banzai/Godzilla: Japanese Influences in American Culture Then & Now" at SF MOMA Artists' Gallery June 27-July 27
• Yumi Kikuchi & Tokyo Peace Film Festival – July 7
• "KAWTHOOLEI," ALWAYS ON THE RUN, & SEASON OF FEAR: Voices of Karen Refugees and Refugee-Activists
• From Salzburg to Window Rock, WE ARE ALL HIBAKUSHA – Steven Leeper: 1st "foreign" head of Hiroshima Memorial Foundation
• World Refugee Day in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, and Hong Kong (a city built by refugees)
• INVISIBLE CHILDREN screening in Tokyo on June 29 – sponsored by THE PEOPLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (PSC)
• Historian Bruce Batten on 20th Anniversary of Discovery of Korokan Ruins & Dual Citizenship in Japan (NHK's "Shiten Ronten" on June 15)
• Photographer Yuzo Uda on the Repression of Buddhists, Urban Dissidents, the Karen & Other Tribal People in Burma
• 2007 Okinawa Anti-U.S. Military HUMAN CHAIN PROTEST & "Secret Details of Sordid Okinawan Reversion Deal Revealed"
• AINU REBELS – RERA CISE Tokyo Ainu Restaurant – KILA-OKI fusion – UMEKO ANDO
• "A Power No Government can Suppress" – Japanese Unionists' May Day Support of Article Nine & Workers' Rights
• PHOTOS from V-DAY SHIMANE's 2007 Benefit for Kazaguruma no Kai!
• Remembering NAGASAKI MAYOR ICCHO ITOH: Global Peace and Disarmament Activist
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007): "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
• Edwin Starr: WAR – What is it good for? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
• RAGAMALA in Nara, PEACE CAFE in Kyoto, Buddhist Cuisine in Taiwan, Hip Places in Tokyo & NYC – Vegetarianism: the Most Powerful Strategy Against Global Warming
• GLOBAL WARMING LUNAR NEW YEAR: Ching Cheong Still in Prison, World's Greatest Human Migration, & Global Red Good-Luck Underwear...
• Palestinian-Israeli Comedy Tour – Acclaim from Palestinians & Israelis Sick of Hatred, Anger, & the Failure to be Positive
• At the Centenary of the SATYAGRAHA movement – Dalai Lama: Chinese High-Speed Railway Has Worsened Repression in Tibet
• GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Asian-Celtic Robbie Burns New Year with Toddish McWong in Vancouver – Turning the "East-West Dichotomy" Inside Out
• Foreign Permanent Residents on Rise in Japan
• Historian Bruce Batten on Changing Views on Early Medieval Japan: from "Closed" to "Open"
• Remembering Emperor Akihito’s Millennial Birthday – Reclaiming Japan's East Asian Legacies
• FAR SIDE MUSIC Online Radio – Bonenkai Asian World Music with Paul Fisher
• Photos from NEPAL's 1st V-DAY produced in Kathmandu by HELP/Nepal
• BILL VIOLA "HATSU-YUME" (FIRST DREAM) Retrospective at Mori Art Museum
• GARDEN OF HOPE's V-Monologues: Challenging Gender-Based Violence in
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• Orhan Pamuk's Critical Multicultural Worldview – PEN's Online Talk
• Renewing Gandhigiri Action – How Gandhi Got His Mojo Back
• Pakistani filmmaker Khamosh Pani’s Silent Waters – Women’s Bodies: “battlegrounds for political conflicts”
• WHAT THE #$*! BLEEP?!? Beppu City, Japan and Orlando, Florida host the GLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL – Interview with Festival Director Nina Streich
• "Don't cry, Daddy, we've become birds in heaven." – Watai Takeharu's Little Birds
• Beauty, Creativity, & Freedom of Expression: The 2006 Right Livelihood Awards – Honoring Indian Dalit activist Ruth Manorama, Daniel Ellsberg, and the International Poetry Festival of Medellin
• Vangie Ricasata on the Liberating and Profound 2006 V-Monologues in Shenzhen
• “These Hands Don’t Hurt Women” – Erin Davis on Bilingual & Transnational V-DAY SHIMANE 2006!
• 2006 V-Day Spotlighting Justice for "Comfort Women" Survivors Across Asia – "The Vagina Monologues" Opens in Seoul on Sept. 15
• A Clash of Empires with the Khant, Buryat, Sakha, Ainu, Chukchi & Other Indigenous Peoples
• The "White" Part of Hybridity Enriching Tones of Brownness: Estelle Peck Ishigo & Anne Branigin's "White Father"
• Imagining a Polish-Jewish Father and a Korean Father Just Sitting in the Sun Together
• The Tao, Laurasia, Pangea, and the Myth of the Hidden Sun
• Hines Ward's Legacy: Catalyzing a Change from “Homogenous” to Multicultural Korea
• Reassessing Prejudice & Discrimination against Japan's "Burakumin:" Real or Politically Manufactured? Widespread or Disappearing? All of these?
• Where Women Rule in Asia – Xiaoli Zhou's "The Women's Kingdom" – Matriarchal Mosuo in the Tibetan Himalayas
• Do you know Grace Lee? – "THE GRACE LEE PROJECT" debuts in Asia at the EBS International Documentary Festival in Seoul on July 15
• Two Typhoons Hitting Shimokitazawa in Tokyo –Urban Typhoon Workshop & Cultural Typhoon Symposium – Overlapping Events from June 26 to July 2
• Humanizing "the Other" through Empathy – Interview with Trauma Psychologist and Filmmaker Dr. Satsuki Ina
• Humanizing History – Satsuki Ina’s “From a Silk Cocoon” June 25 Debut in Nagoya
• The Vision Festival, Sam Rivers Live in Japan 1964, & Kazuko Shiraishi Regarding the Future
• Bill Minor’s Postscript on Interstitial Jazz between Japan & the World
• Kansai's Multicultural Spaces, Higashi-kujo Madang (Korean Outdoor Theater) in Kyoto, & the Role of Performance in Public Life
• Hiroshima Memorial – Remembering Chinese Victims
• Okitama Farmer's League: Japanese Organic Farmers Engaged in Global Outreach
• People of Color Discriminating against People of Color in Asia & their Challengers: Dalit Intellectual Chandra Bhan Prasad and Dalit Activist Ruth Manorama
• Universal Writer & Human Rights Activist Joy Kogawa’s House Saved in Vancouver
• Healing Japanese Canadian Diasporan History – Multicultural Noh play The Gull premieres in Vancouver
• Sunshowers: Multicultural Atmospheric Sign for Animal Weddings and Heinz Insu Fenkl on Asian Fox Brides
• Intertwined Languages: Japanese-English, Spanglish, Denglish, and Language Hat
• Japanese War Orphans: a Possible Bridge of Reconciliation?
• Asian Orphan Diasporas – 55,000 little girls, born in China, growing up in North America
• How the Irish Saved Civilization, Spread St. Patrick's Day Parades throughout Japan, & May Be Saving Civilization Again
• Alternative Media Spaces & Ordinary Transnational "Messengers of Peace"
• Good-Bye Japan, Hello Japan – Morley Robertson's new Transnationalist Movement for Japan, formula 1 (beta level)
• Yokoso! Japan adds fingerprinting to welcome of foreign visitors
• Shotokan Shihan (Grandmaster) in a Hijab
• Ancient Multiculturalism: From the Korean National Museum to the Shosoin in Nara
• Osaka Human Rights Museum
• Eleventh Moon, The Melting World, and Personal Vision
• Hollywood's Memoirs of a Hootchy-Kootchy, Razzle-Dazzle, But Not-Kick-Butt Geisha; a Male Geisha Guerilla; and a Real Geisha Laughing
• Ota's Bilingual Program for Japanese-Brazilian students
• Pursuing a "Third Way" in Transnational Multicultural Identities
• European wrestler gains Ozeki title
• Polyculturalism, Kung Fu & Bruce Lee – Symbol of Ethnic Reconciliation in Bosnia
• Transnational Women Truth-tellers: Exhibition of Art by WWII Asian sexual-slavery survivors
• Hyphenated Japanese Schools Seeking Educational Equity
• Kyushu National Museum, an Intercultural Cosmos, and Hyphenated Japan
• Humans: 99.9% the Same, 0.1% Diverse
• Chisato "Kitty" Dubreuil & Her Sky Woman – Peramonkoro Sunazawa
• The Mirror Art Group and Hilltribe Org: Challenging Ethnic Stereotypes in Thailand
• Zheng He – Multicultural & Interfaith Role Model 600 Years Later
• Ancient Multicultural Fusion – "China: Crossroads of Civilization" (at the Tohoku History Museum)
• Circles, Waves, Spirals & Our Common Ancestors
• Reclaiming Our Shared Global Past through Music and Art
• Silk Road Revivals
• Outer & Inner Journeys of Xuan Zhuang & Hirayama Ikuo
• More on Chinese History in Japan
• One Thousand Cranes & One Turtle: Korean Victims of Hiroshima Bombing
• Monsoons, Mambo & Music: Contemporary Transnational Narratives
• Indigenous Revivals in Taiwan
• Rescuing Spirits of Ancestors
• Refugee Border-Crossings

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