Ten Thousand Things

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

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Current postings, from most recent:

• Ainu Okay An Wa (The Indigenous Ainu are here)!: “TOKYO Ainu”, a film
• Peace Exchange Tour: Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Kyoto – July 30 to Aug. 10, 2009
• 6th Annual Tokyo Peace Film Festival Plays to a Packed House:
  Explores Tibet, Palestine, and Alternatives to the Economy of Exploitation
• Peace Works, Linking Souls: Towards a Culture of Peace
• Japan for Sustainability: Eco-Activism - Solar Power, Part-time Farmers, Fair-Trade Chocolate & More!
• Suzanne Kamata's Latest Books: Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering & Playing for Papa
• RAGAMALA in Nara • MIKOAN in Kyoto • Buddhist & Vegetarian Cuisine in Taipei, Tokyo & NYC – Vegetarianism: the Most Powerful Strategy Against Global Warming
• From Natalie Willer & Marcia Lise @HAFUJPANESE.org – Calling all half Japanese people living in Japan
• Spring Love: Music, peace and eco festival April 4-5 2009 in Yoyogi Park!
  The hottest urban party of the season!
• YOSHIOKA TATSUYA AND THE GLOBAL ARTICLE 9 CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH WAR NOMINATED FOR THE 2009 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
• Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan: 2008 Right Livelihood Award Recipient for Realizing “Gandhian Vision of Social Justice and Sustainable Human Development”
• Hapa Power: MIXED ROOTS RADIO on NHK on Dec. 15, 2008 · Essay contest in 2009
• CHIHAN ART PROJECT – artist performance & installation series – in Ohito, the Izu Peninsula
• Ongoing through 2009 – Planning for the 3rd Annual Japan Writers Conference
• Collateral Repair for "Collateral Damage": International grassroots network helps displaced Iraqis rebuild their lives, one project at a time
• 100 Years of Japanese Immigration: Multiple identities of the Nikkei community – Symposium in Sao Paulo on September 20, 2008
• PEACE BOAT HIBAKUSHA PROJECT: 2008 Global Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World
• Prior to the 2008 G8 Summit in Japan, indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Hokkaido (Ainu Mosir).
• THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS win "Courage of Conscience" Award & Seek Vatican Apology for Loss of Heritage
• The 3rd Annual Tokyo Refugee Film Festival – June 20-27 2008
• 24th TOKYO SUMMER FESTIVAL 2008 – Art & Music from the Amazon, the Sahara, and Miyazaki prefecture
• Alice Slater on Global Article 9 & Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Petition for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
• Anja Light's SLOHAS tour through Japan through June 7, 2008 – Towards a Life-Sustaining World
• Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire outside the 2008 Tokyo Global Article 9 Conference (on YouTube)
• Report on the 2008 Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War
• Photos from the 2008 GLOBAL ARTICLE 9 CONFERENCE TO END WAR
• "LOVE, PEACE, & LIFE" – Japan as No. 9 – The Sloth Club Japan says "Make Slow Love, Not Fast War"
• Lydia Venieri's photograph exhibition "NO EVIL" opens May 10 2008 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 – 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
• 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
  Military Sexual Slavery Survivors -- 2008 GRIEVING & HEALING FIELDWORK in Okinawa and Jeju Island, Korea
• 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
• 10th Anniversary Gung Haggis Fat Choy –Toddish McWong’s Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner 2008 Spectacular in Vancouver
• Alice Walker & Chung Hyun Kyung: "WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR"
• 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
• Makihara & Matsumoto, et al. -- free Improvisation From Philly to Shibuya to Yokohama Park on YouTube
• Exploring Ancient Hybridity –"YOSHINOGARI: Ancient Korean Culture in Japan" at National Museum of Korea & Saga Prefecture Museum
• Bring Your Own Chopsticks: EARTH & PEACE FESTIVAL in Tokyo on Nov. 11 2007 & WWOOF (glocal organic farming holidays) in JAPAN
• Okinawan Music & Dance and Ainu-Hip-Hop at CHARANKE MATSUI – Nov 3 & 4 2007 in Tokyo
• Nara National Museum: "The 59th Annual Exhibition of Shosoin Treasures" – Oct. 27 to Nov. 12 2007
• Pan-Indigenous Dialogue: Ainu leader Tadashi Kato on the UN's 2007 Resolution on Indigenous Rights
• The "Tibet Within" – DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE – at Global Peace Film Festival Japan Oct 5-7 2007
• 'Make Art, Not War" – Jimmy Tsutomo Mirikitani & Linda Hattendorf in THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI
• Aichi International Women's Film Festival 2007
• 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
• "The Chan Legacy" – Todd Wong's Vancouver Chinese-First Nations-European-Canadian Family Featured on CBC August 19 2007 (Rescheduled)
• 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, 2007
• Is Freedom in Danger? – AGAINST COERCION: REFUSING TO STAND FOR "Kimigayo"
• 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, 2007
• "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
• Historian Bruce Batten on 20th Anniversary of Discovery of Korokan Ruins & Dual Citizenship in Japan (NHK's "Shiten Ronten" on June 15, 2007)
• Photographer Yuzo Uda on the Repression of Buddhists, Urban Dissidents, the Karen & Other Tribal People in Burma
• AINU REBELS – RERA CISE Tokyo Ainu Restaurant – KILA-OKI fusion – UMEKO ANDO
• 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.”
• 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"
• 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) 2006 Retrospective at Mori Art Museum
• GARDEN OF HOPE's V-Monologues: Challenging Gender-Based Violence in
  Taiwan – Interview with Robyn Taylor, Director of International Affairs
• 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 2006 – 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, 2006
• A Clash of Empires with the Khant, Buryat, Sakha, Ainu, Chukchi & Other Indigenous Peoples
• Eliade on The Tao & The Ten Thousand Things
• Hines Ward's Legacy: Catalyzing a Change from “Homogenous” to Multicultural Korea
• 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" pokes fun at Asian stereotypes
• Two Typhoons Hitting Shimokitazawa in Tokyo –Urban Typhoon Workshop & Cultural Typhoon Symposium – Overlapping Events from June 26 to July 2, 2006
• Humanizing "the Other" through Empathy – Interview with Dr. Satsuki Ina
• Humanizing History – Satsuki Ina’s “From a Silk Cocoon”
• The Vision Festival, Sam Rivers Live in Japan 1964, & Kazuko Shiraishi Regarding the Future
• Bill Minor on Jazz in Japan
• Kansai's Multicultural Spaces, Higashi-kujo Madang (Korean Outdoor Theater) in Kyoto
• 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
• Japanese Canadian Writer Joy Kogawa’s House Saved in Vancouver
• Healing Japanese Canadian 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)
• 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: The Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, Tokyo
• Kyushu National Museum, an Intercultural Cosmos, and Hyphenated Japan
• Humans: Genetically 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
• Circles, Waves, Spirals & Our Common Ancestors
• Reclaiming Our Shared Global Past through Music and Art
• Silk Road Revivals: Yo Yo Ma, Minoru Miki, & Hideki Togi
• The Nara International Foundation & the Journeys of Xuanzang & Ikuo Hirayama
• More on Chinese History in Japan
• One Thousand Cranes & One Turtle: Korean Victims of Hiroshima Bombing
• Millennium Mambo: A Contemporary Transnational Narrative
• Indigenous Revivals in Taiwan
• Rescuing Spirits of Ancestors

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