Hāfu Representation

A collection of articles and book titles about hāfu themes, characters, authors and stereotypes.

Articles

• Hāfu Gender Ratios in Anime (2011) Includes a long list of over 300 hāfu in anime/manga.
• Mixed Asian Metaphor (New York Magazine) (2022)
• Flirting with the Foreign Interracial Sex in Japan's International Age by Karen Kclsky (1996)

Pre-1970s Articles

• Madame Butterfly's Children by Peter Kalischer, Collier's Weekly (1952)
• Life Magazine's Japan's GI Babies (1969)

Tropes

• But Not Too Foreign

Others

⁠References

• Zack, Naomi (1995). American mixed race: the culture of microdiversity - Naomi Zack - Google Books. ISBN 9780847680139. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
• “Growing Up Different but Never Alienated”. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
• “What Is Japan’s Fetish This Week? Foreign… Flair”. Kotaku. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
• Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.

Things to Research

• Recreation and Amusement Association
• Our Lady of Lourdes. Baby Home. An orphanage in Yokohama that took in hāfu babies after WWII. (https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=SLR19540709-01.2.104&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------)
• Half Japanese in the Baka-Updates Manga database