“Excuse me, are you hafu?” the taxi driver asked. Anna, a woman of mixed Japanese and American heritage, was in a taxi en route to a party in Tokyo last year when she was asked that question, and says ...

We are increasingly seeing more strong hafu women being celebrated for their amazing achievements as well as being able to harness the power of understanding and experiencing two different cultures.

YUKUHASHI, Fukuoka Prefecture--Sophia Fukushima thought she was “rather bad” at writing essays, but last summer she decided to put into words something that has bothered her for most of her young life ...

The number of Japanese citizens marrying foreign nationals has been increasing at a rapid pace, and every year more than 20,000 children are born in Japan to such international couples. These ...

For such a small word, “half” carries an awful lot of weight here in Japan. Adapted to fit the syllabary, the word is pronounced “hafu” in Japanese, and describes a person who has one Japanese – and ...

As the overall population is constantly declining in Japan so are marriages, and that includes the number of foreign partnerships which still account for a sizable portion of all marriages. In 2016, ...

Hafu, which is how the Japanese pronounce the word “half,” refers to a person who is of mixed Japanese and foreign descent. The hafu population in Japan has been growing steadily, along with their ...