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Interviews
& Profiles
When
KJ looks for insights concerning Asian cultures, we try to be specific.
Rather than presenting generalizations on "the Japanese," for
example, we try to present individuals who express fresh ideas in their
own words. Thus, interviews have always been an absolutely essential element
of KJ's "perspectives from Asia." In addition, we have published
numerous profiles of interesting people, both well- and lesser-known,
from contemporary life, and history.
This page lists interviews and profiles still available in KJ back
issues – or in photocopy format if the issue is sold
out. We plan to post more of the original material from this rich source
on this website soon...
We
welcome proposals for interviews and profiles.
KJ#72
Japan’s
Peacemaker, Shidehara Kijuro and the origins of Article 9
An interview with Peace Historian Klaus Schlictmann
–
Jean Miyake Downey
Defining
the Debate on Constitutional Revision
and Peacekeeping, an interview with Prof. Murata Koji –Susan Pavloska
and John Einarsen
Into
the Atomic Sunshine
Post-war art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9
Jean Miyake-Downey talks to Watanabe Shinya
Article
9 and the Future of Japan
Anzai Ikuro and Johan Galtung on Cultivating Article 9
Transforming
Tragic Memories into Peaceful Strength:
Syed Sikander Mehdi on Japan’s role in the world –
Paul Scott
Becoming
a Pacifist in Iraq: An Interview with Aidan Delgado – John
Einarsen
“And
So Make Peace...” Maxine Hong Kingston talks story
– Trevor Carolan
KJ#71
Lu
T’ung and The Song of Tea –
Steven
D. Owyoung
KJ#70
A
special issue featuring 39 interviews with a wide variety of Kyoto residents,
contents here
KJ#69
Pouring
Light into Mombetsu – John Einarsen interviews pinhole
photographers Suzuka Yasu, Ishihara Masumi, Sato Tokihiro
Re-Branding
China: Wang Min and the Beijing Image
Zen
at War: The Buddhist Enablement of Japanese Militarism –
Kathy
Arlyn Sokol talks with
Brian Daizen Victoria
KJ#68
At
the Crossroads of the World – Jon Chang interviews university
students in Kyrgyzstan
KJ#67
Inside
the Smoke: Oda Makoto, Author and Activist –
Brian
Covert
KJ#66
"Spirit
from Fire: Buddhist Statues of the Kathmandu Valley" –
Harada Shokei
"The
Life and Art of Paul Horiuchi"
– Mike
Dillon
"Exile:
Indonesian Writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer" – Andre Vltchek
and Rossie Indira
"Hesitant
Laughter in the Land of a Thousand Smiles" – Helen
Polychronakos
Online
Feature: Pico
Iyer is Lost
–
Mark Mordue
KJ#65
"The View to Mt Sumeru: Donald Richie on D.T. Suzuki"
– Osawa Ishibashi Yoshie
"Divide
and Rule" – Vinita Ramani interviews film director
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
"Illuminating the Past Within the Present"
Mari Luong interviews documentarist Kana Tomoko
"Using Law to Save Nature" – John Haffner
talks to Chinese environmentalist Wang Canfa
Online Feature: "An
Interview wth Cartoonist Martin Honeysett"
– Kathy Arlyn Sokol
KJ#64
"Questioning
Gender: an Interview with Japan-based Psychotherapist Kim Oswalt"
– Stewart Wachs
"Josephine
Ho on Gender & Sexuality Activism in Taiwan" –
David Frazier
"They
Call Me 'Bunda' (Mother)" – an
Interview with Indonesian Celebrity Dorce Gamalama —
Justin Ellis
"Beyond
Boundaries in Indonesia: Activist Dede Oetomo on Waria"
— Justin Ellis
"A Japanese Feminist in Occupied Shanghai: Tamura Toshiko
and the Magazine Nu Sheng" — Tu Xiaohua,
trans. by Tan Ban Chong
KJ#63
"The
Art & Culture of the Ainu: A Call for Respect" –
an Interview with activist-scholar Chisato (Kitty) O. Dubreuil by Jean
Miyake-Downey & Rebecca Dosch-Brown
"Big Fish Eat Small Fish" – an Interview
with Tsurumi Shunsuke, by Oketani Shogo
KJ#62
"Migrating Genius: The
Life and Art of Jack Madson"
–
Stewart Wachs
"The Cartoonist &
the Poet" – Colleen Sheils
KJ#61
"Revisiting the Jewish-Tibetan
Dialogue": Rodger Kamenetz,
interviewed by Jean Miyake Downey & Yehudit Kornberg Greenberg
KJ#60
Korea
Korea’s Key
Role in East Asia and Beyond: Lee
O-young – an interview by John Einarsen
Ko Un: Human Nature Itself is Poetic – an interview
by Pat Donegan
Lessons Where Rivers Meet: Interview with Father Paul
Moon by John Einarsen
A
Harmony Beyond Control: Yoon Kwang-cho on living with clay –
interview by Robert Kowalczyk and Myong-hee Kim
Breath & Movement Deeply Felt – Pat Donegan
interviews Korea’s Nijinsky, Sun Ho Kim
Generational Tensions: Yu Young-nan on translation
& women writers – an interview by John Einarsen
An
Interview with Lee Jae-bong – by John Einarsen
KJ#59
Reporting
Reality – an interview with Hirokawa Ryuichi,
founder of Days Japan, by Eric Prideaux
Remembering R.H. Blyth – Duncan Baker
Old Mountain Soul – an interview with haikuist
James Hackett, by Tim Hornyak
Revealing the Invisible
– Manoa's Frank Stewart & Patricia Matsueda
on Expanding Cultural Horizons, by Ken Rodgers
A Journey to the Residual World – photographer
Hatakeyama Naoya, an interview by Sean O'Toole
Manners of Speech: a Kyoto neighbor, Ohata-san,
by Philip J. Cunningham
KJ#58
Dance
Kitchen: Buto dancers Tamano Koichi
and Tamano Hiroko – Dustin
W. Leavitt
A Child of All Time: Butoh Dancer Kazuo Ohno at 98 –
John Barrett
A Ragtime Roshi's Musical Peace: Pianist Ikemiya Masanobu
– Stewart Wachs
The Silence Before the Cadenza: The story of pianist Fujiko
Hemming – David Greer
In Translation: Reflections of
a Psychotherapy Go-between: an interview with Shinji Kazue
by Stewart Wachs
An Ikebana Journey – flower arrangement teacher Ishido-sensei,
by Jenny Hall
KJ#57
Letting
Go of Ego – An interview with Zen Priest David Daigaku
Rumme, by Nevin Thompson
A Mantra from Ajari-san, practitioner of Mt Hiei's ascetic tradition
– Sherry Nakanishi
Bokunen Remembers – Okinawan woodblock artist, an interview
by Jeffrey Irish
Master & Deshi: Rakugoka Katsura Sanshi & Katsura
Sanpu – encountered by Butch Read
KJ#56
They
Who Render Anew – contemporary
literary translators Juliet Winters Carpenter, Janine Beichman,
Sam Hamill, Leza Lowitz & Oketani Shogo, Elaine Gerbert,
and Royall Tyler, interviewed by
Avery Fischer
Mary
Yukari Waters, author of The Laws of Evening, interviewed
by Stewart Wachs
Nomura Katsuko, a 92-year-old social activist, recalls her life in
conversation with Kaori Mizuno
Date
Nobuaki and his "Ukeleleization" project (tranforming demolished buildings
into unique musical instruments) – by Sherry Nakanishi
KJ#55
This issue profiled the streets of Asia...
KJ#54
Turbulence in the East: Noam
Chomsky interviewed by Asano Kenichi
Sweatshops, Asian Cultural Values, and the New Global Protest Movement
– Richard Appelbaum interviewed by Philip Grant
Buddhism is Not Un-American: Lawrence Ferlinghetti interviewed
by Carl Freire
Tea & Qi, an afternoon with Beijing artist Siao Weijia, by
Philip J. Cunningham
KJ#53 (Just Deeds)
Norbert Vollertsen's Personal Campaign
– an activist doctor in North Korea, by Don Kirk
Lakei
eh Metat: "Man Who Has Disappeared" – Bruno
Manser, by Keith Harmon Snow
Goenka-ji: Peace Through Inner Wisdom – Vipassana founder
profiled by Chris Summerville
Healing a Divided Land – an interview with Ke Chung
Kim on making the DMZ an international park, by Beth Hillman
Mihariban's Matsuura Yoneko – putting citizen pressure on
Osaka politicians, by Eric Johnston
The Abandoned Jewels of Cambodia: an interview with Arn
Chorn Pond, founder of Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development,
by Kimberlye Kowalczyk
Preeta Bharggav, Prison Matriarch - Rita Dixit-Kubiak
Sanjaasurenjin Oyun: Working for Change in Mongolia –
Paul D. Scott
Krethsasna: Champions from the Cambodian Streets –
Vong Sokheng
Shinomiya Hiroshi: Filming the Forgotten –
Tim Hornyak
Torihama Tome: A Small Restaurant on the Edge of Life - as told by
David Greer
Recreating Memory - the
testimony of Hiroshima survivor Yamaoka Michiko
–
Paul Scott
Aoki Reiko: Tackling the Traffic - Amanda Suutari
Hands in the Soil: Natural farming with Kawaguchi Yoshikazu –
Amanda Suutari
KJ#52
No Apologies! Photographer Yoshinaga
Masayuki on bosozoku, yakuza, Asian gaijin, and his
life – Sally McLaren
Synthetic Dreams: the Art of Mariko Mori – Robert Jarrell
Robert Falk on Militarization, Globalization,
Peace, and Citizen-Pilgrims – Philip Grant
Kondo Tadashi & The United Nations of Renku – Patricia
Donegan
Sudo Hisao: Mediating Between Nature
and Imagination - Ceramicist profiled by Deidre May
KJ#51
The
Abundance of Less – a visit with Nakamura Osamu,
by Andy Couturier
Dancing With Words: a profile
of translator Red Pine (Bill Porter), by Roy Hamric
KJ#50
(Transience)
Illumination
in Each Moment, an interview with Kyoto dancer Nishikawa Senrei,
by Toyoshima Mizuho
In the Eternal Now – encountering the Bishamon-ten of Kurama-dera,
by Ken Rodgers
KJ#49
Tehelka.com: Internet Journalism's First Big
Sting - Kathy Arlyn Sokol interviews Tarun Tejpal
JET Portraits - Experiments in Internationalization, photo-essay by
Everett Brown
Ryu & Me - an interview, sort of, with novelist Murakami
Ryu, by his translator, Ralph F. McCarthy
Nusari, by Keibo Oiwa and Minamata fisherman Ogata
Masato
Revitalizing History – Patricia Wakida on the making of Only
What We Could Carry
Jose Juan Tablada – a Mexican poet in Meiji Japan, by D.M.
Stroud
KJ#48
Imagining Lady Murasaki - Liza Dalby, interviewed
by Sally McLaren
Kato Shuichi on Everything, one of Japan's last Renaissance men,
interviewed by Marc P. Keane and Jeffery Irish
The Profligate's Wife, a true tale retold by David Greer
Voices from a Dark Place, Japan's military sexual slavery revisited
by Toyoshima Mizuho
Revolutionary Muse, a profile of Chiranan Pitpreecha, by Philip
J. Cunningham
KJ#47
Slow is Beautiful, a relaxed interview with Keibo
Oiwa, founder of the Sloth Club, by Sally McLaren
Seeing Through the Window –the photography of poet
& monk Thomas Merton by Roy Hamric
Yosa Buson: Haiku Master, an appreciation by Edward McFadden
Demons, Misinformation and Kimochi, an interview with Alex
Kerr on the failed modernization of Japan, by Catherine
Pawasarat
KJ#46 (Media in Asia)
Local TV... after the Big Bang —
Nakamura Koji interviewed by Jeff Irish
Media Critic Asano Kenichi —
interviewed by Stewart Wachs
KJ#45
The Cambodian Childhood of Loung
Ung, interview by Kathy Arlyn Sokol
Re-imagining Asia: Benedict
Anderson, interviewed by Philip Grant, Duane Phan, and John Einarsen
A Nisei Life: Daniel Okimoto, interviewed
by Kyoko Nozaki, Duane Phan, and Philip Grant
The
Lists of a Lady in Waiting – David Greer's tribute to Sei
Shonagon
KJ#44
Orville Schell reflects on his 30 years of reading "between
the lies" on China, interviewed by Robert W. Snyder
Elizabeth Vining, Quaker tutor to Japan's former Crown Prince,
now Emperor – recalled by Morgan Gibson
KJ#43
Walking the World, with Umesao Tadao, founder of
Japan's National Museum of Ethnology, interviewed by Jeffrey Irish
Reverential Ecology, with Schumacher Society co-founder and Resurgence
editor, Satish Kumar, interviewed by John Einarsen, Stewart
Wachs, and Lye Tuck-Po
The Goddess Within, prominent artist-activist Mayumi Oda
interviewed by Preston Houser
A Home for Street Children - Didi Ananda Kalika's
work in Ulan Bator, by Didi Ananda Kaomudi
Darkness into Light, emerging painter Oshima Hiko
profiled by Stewart Wachs
KJ#42
(Time)
Terence McKenna
on
Archaic Revival,
interviewed by Kathy Arlyn Sokol
KJ#41
Donald Richie, a writer and critic who has been mostly based
in Tokyo since the Occupation, was interviewed for this issue by Janet
Poccoroba
KJ#40
Reel
Life and Reel Life – US documentary
maker Regge Life: interviewed
by Stewart
Wachs
50 Years of Sacrifice for the
Freedom of Kashmir: Letters from Kashmir's Resistance
(Azam Inquilabi, Yasin Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah) introduced
by Kathy Arlyn Sokol and W. David Kubiak
KJ#39
Reaching
God Through Music:
Ravi Shankar –
interviewed by Kathy
Arlyn Sokol
KJ#38
(Transforming Conflict)
The
Education of a Peacemaker: Johan Galtung, interview by
Philip Grant
Dialogue is not a Debate
in which there are Winner and Losers: Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi interviewed by Debbie
Stothard of ALTSEAN-BURMA
Voices from Pakistan: Islam Means Justice, and Justice Means Rights:
Imran Khan
Democracy is Survival for Women: Asma Jenhangir – two interviews
by Kathy Arlyn Sokol
Like Sculpting Smoke: Author Arundhati Roy (of best-selling
The God of Small Things) – interview by Kathy Arlyn Sokol
KJ#37
(Inaka – The Japanese Countryside)
Tales of a Country Doctor: Dr Kenjirou
Setoue – journals translated by Jeffrey Irish
Matsuri, Gods and the Land: Tadayoshi
Himeda,
an ethnographer film-maker talks about his 40 years shooting documentaries
on local festivals, with Everett Brown
Sister Matsumi, a profile by Jeffrey Irish
Homegrown: Oral histories of a farming family in Hiroshima
and California – Carol Koda
Bear Hunter: Shigeo Iwamoto –
Shibata Tsuyoshi
Lake Fisherman: Enami Kishiro – Matthias Ley
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