Jim Luce (ジムルース) on Japan & Japanese-Americans

Jim Luce declared East Asian Studies – Japan (Literature) his major during his freshman fall quarter at The College of Wooster.  He went on to spend three semesters in Tokyo and Morioka, and then returned to Tokyo upon his graduation to look for a job.  Unsuccessful, her moved to New York and accepted a position with Daiwa Bank in Japanese.  He returns as often as he can, for example speaking on the need for world peace at a conference in Hiroshima.

.

1. 2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?
2. Japan’s PIKADON Project & Hiroshima Yes! Campaign in New York City
3. Park Avenue’s Nichibei Exchange – and the Japanese Flute

1. Art Students League’s “Scroll for Japan” Benefit
2. Japan Relief: Where to Give? I Suggest Tokyo’s Waseda University
3. Japanese Artists in New York Offer Art for Japan Relief
4. Small Town America Rallies for Both Haiti and Japan  

1. Asian-Pacific American Culture Celebrated at Macy’s in Flushing NYC
2. NYC’s Japan American Association Funds Haitian Students Dream of International Study
3. Keiko Tsuyama: Japanese Woman of the World

1. Notes From Japan: From Harajuku to Waseda
2. Notes from Japan: Shinomori – Mediating in the Woods
3. Notes from Japan: A Rural Village in Iwate Province
4. Notes from Japan: Hitchhiking Through the Storm to Hokkaido
5. Notes from Japan: Japanese and English Language Very Far Apart 
6. Notes from Japan: Living with a Former Samurai Family 
7. Notes from Japan: Fat American (Me!) Races 500 Junior High Students 
8. Notes from Japan: From Zen Life in the Country to Tokyo – Help! 
9. Bringing Japan into Focus through the Tea Ceremony
10. Tokyo of the Mind: A Study of the Figurative Language of Abe Kobo