Profiles

Our Lives / Profiles Sep 22, 2012

Filipino filmmaker-writer captures the stories of Asians on the fringe

by Kris Kosaka

Rey Ventura's prose startles with the subtle force of cinematic images: From the "rustling leaves" that signal the return of the rebel forces to the Aeta hill tribes in the Philippines to the "standing men" or day laborers populating the alleyways of the Kotobukicho ...

Our Lives / Profiles Sep 8, 2012

Eye surgeon makes a difference, performing 'miracles' in Vietnam

by Gianni Simone

In 1965, Akira Kurosawa directed "Akahige" ("Red Beard"), the story of an Edo Period doctor who teaches his arrogant intern the importance of compassion, responsibility, and empathizing with his patients. Ophthalmologist Tadashi Hattori has seen this movie, but he insists that he was not ...