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.

Kimberly Hughes is a freelance translator, writer, editor and comunity organizer in fields relating to peace, social justice and human rights. Her article "Hope Amidst the Pain" in KJ #68 introduced a grassroots Japanese network giving voice and support to citizens of Iraq.

More bio details here.


Feedback? tenthousandthings[AT]kyotojournal.org

• Small Repairs: International grassroots network attempts to help displaced Iraqis rebuild their lives, one project at a time
• Where Foreigners are More Than Welcome: Shiraishi Island & Okayama's International Villages Threatened by Budget Cuts
• 100 Years of Japanese Immigration: Multiple identities of the Nikkei community – Symposium in Sao Paulo on September 20, 2008
• PEACE BOAT HIBAKUSHA PROJECT: Global Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World
• Peace Week in Kunitachi
• "PeaceWorks: Linking Souls" Photography Exhibition Aug. 24-31 in Yokohama
• Tokyo gay film festival continues second weekend run Jul 17-21
• Tokyo Peace Film Festival This Week!
• Prior to the 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
• PEACE BOAT: Blogging Live from the G8 SUMMIT in Hokkaido
• The 3rd Annual Tokyo Refugee Film Festival – June 20-27
• PEACE AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE CONFERENCE – Sept. 27-28, 2008 at Seisen University
• 24th TOKYO SUMMER FESTIVAL 2008 – Art & Music from the Amazon, the Sahara, and Miyazaki prefecture
• Ainu Leaders host INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUMMIT July 1-4, 2008
• 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 – Towards a Life-Sustaining World
• Iraq Hope Network Sponsors Fundraising Drives for Iraqis in Baghdad and Basra
• Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire outside the Tokyo Global Article 9 Conference (on YouTube)
• Progressive Tokyo Groups Gather to Raise Funds for Burma Cyclone Relief
• John Junkerman's report on the "Global Article 9 Conference Towards the Abolition of War" & Hayashi Kyoko's portrait "From Trinity to Trinity" at Japanfocus.org
• Report on the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War
• Photos from the 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"
• Party for Good Causes with People for Social Change – June 14th in Tokyo
• 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
  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
• 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
• Transnational Land Rights Movement: JANADESH – March of 25,000 Indian Farmers Represent Millions
• Bring Your Own Chopsticks: EARTH & PEACE FESTIVAL in Tokyo on Nov. 11 & WWOOF (glocal organic farming holidays) in JAPAN
• 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
• Okinawan Music & Dance and Ainu-Hip-Hop at CHARANKE MATSUI – Nov 3 & 4 in Tokyo
• "The World is Reborn With Your Eyes" – 2007 AFRICA ASIA LITERATURE FESTIVAL – Jeonju, Korea – Nov. 7-14
• Nara National Museum: "The 59th Annual Exhibition of Shosoin Treasures" – Oct. 27 to Nov. 12
• Largest Global Rally Ever – 38.8 Million People Stand Against Poverty
• Pan-Indigenous Dialogue: Ainu leader Tadashi Kato on the UN's 2007 Resolution on Indigenous Rights
• Please Help Okinawan, Japanese, American, & Transnational Environmentalists Save the Okinawan Dugong
• 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
  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 – 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
• North Korean Refugee Border-Crossings

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