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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Nikkei Influence In Star Trek

Successful television & film franchises that span decades are few and far between. More so, ones that have consistently featured both ...

Monday, March 26, 2012

テレビ A Look Back at Television Past

Japanese actors in Hollywood have come a long way to overcome cultural stereotypes over the years. And in some ways, they still have the...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

一日の画像 - Picture of the Day

Featured here are Takahashi Kosuke & Takashima Kazuki of Tokyo with injured LA Galaxy 2011 MLS Defender of the Year Omar Gonzalez. The...

Saturday, March 10, 2012

In Remembrance of 03.10.2011

It was exactly one year ago that the great earthquake of 2011 hit the Sendai region of Japan which unleashed the tsunami that swept away s...

Saturday, March 3, 2012

一日の画像 - Picture of the Day

Sara Rose Saeki enjoy's her first Hinamatsuri before her family's Hina Doll display. This happy little girl is the daughter of ...

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Mia Naoko's First 100 Days

American Mishima is proud to share this video we produced of our daughter's first 100 days of life. Enjoy!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

百日祝い 100 Days Celebration

Earlier on American Mishima, we reported last November of 2011 how Tina and I were blessed to bring little Mia Naoko Rosas into this worl...

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About Me

lasamurai: Little Tokyo, California, United States; “American Mishima” is the work of Louis Rosas, the son of Mexican Immigrants, whose father served in Vietnam for the US Army and who grew up on glamorized war films and military aviation in the sleepy seaside plains of Oxnard, Calif. With an early fascination of the Second World War embedded in his young mind during the post-Vietnam era, it was his exposure to Akira Kurosawa's samurai epic Ran (Toho, 1985) that changed his views of war while creating a lasting impression of Japanese culture and history. Further inspired by the works of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, Rosas would go on to study Japanese language and swordsmanship, which led him to the practice of Shingon Buddhism and Shinto. Rosas is also a former student of Shinkendo, the ideal and practice of the samurai code of Bushido in the modern world, which helped shape the creative force that is “American Mishima.”

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