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.

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, ...