Identity and Transformation

Human development is a cyclical process of becoming whole through accepting and connecting to one’s authentic self and vital energy. When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities illuminates the universal nature of identity construction through life stories of people who embody mixedness and paradox. These narratives provide insights into how we navigate and transcend social identities based on racial, sexual, and national boundaries in a globalized world.

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“Storytelling teahouse ‘master’ is modern day doctor of the soul.” Beacon Reports, June 25, 2021
“Multiethnicity and the Changing Face of Asian America.” The Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month of Learning. Stanford Business School. May 29, 2021
“I’m Irish!: Liberating a Surrendered Multiethnic Identity.” Psychology Today. March 18, 2021
“We Too, Are America.” Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, April 8, 2020
“A story of family told across multiple continents.” By Richard Solomon. Japan Times, March 12, 2020
“Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu draws on his own past of otherness to foster inclusion today.” By Richard Solomon. Japan Times, March 12, 2020
“A singular moment in a teahouse full of tales,” By Richard Solomon, Japan Times, March 12, 2020
“Every Courageous Act: Reflecting on Japanese American Internment.” Stanford Asian American Alumni Club, March 2017
Telling Our Story: “Home” for Japan’s Mixed Roots People. Journal of Intercultural Education. (In Japanese), (2014).
Multiracial/Multiethnic Identities. In Danico, M. Y. (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Asian American Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage with James Ong (2014).
“Hikikomori: Adolescence without End.” Book review. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. March, 2014
Mixed Race People in Japan’s Multicultural Society. (2014). In Johanna Zulueta and Lydia Yu-Jose (Eds.) Migration and the Creation of Japan’s Multicultural Society: Workers, Women, and the Next Generation, Quezon City, PH: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
“Asian American Student Stress: The Other Side of Achievement.” With S., Sein, K., Wakimoto, P. & Wang, M. In Eunai Shrake and Edith Wen-Chu Chen (Eds.) Critical Issues and Debates in Asian American Studies, Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishers. 2013
“When Half is Whole: Learning from the Stories of Multiethnic Asian American Identities.” Stanford Asian American Alumni Club, 2013
“The Celtic Samurai: Storytelling a Transnational-Transracial Family Life.” In Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis (Eds.) War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013
Interview. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu. At Home Abroad: The Contemporary Western Experience in Japan. By Adam Komisarof. Tokyo: Reitaku University Press, 2012
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2012). Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being “Half” in Japan, Review of book by Laurel Kamada. Social Science Japan Journal
Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender, by Nancy Matsumoto. Discover Nikkei, December 29, 2012
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2011). The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education, Book Review, James A. Banks. Diaspora, Indigenous
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2011). Multiracial Identities. In Juergensmeyer, M. & Anheier, H. (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Interview. “Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia,” by Akemi Johnson, Nichibei, May 20, 2010
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. & Willis, D. B. (2008). Challenges of Japan’s New Diversity. In F. Coulmas, H. Conrad, A. Schad-Seifert, G. Vogt (Eds.) The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan. pp. 293—315. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2008). Narratives of Living in the Borderlands of Race and Nation in Japan. In Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity. pp. 282—304. London: Routledge
Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2008). Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the Cultural Borderlands and Beyond. In Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.). Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Identity. pp. 3—44. London: Routledge
Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2008). Ethnoscapes and the Other in 21st Century Japan. In Willis, D. B. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (Eds.) Transcultural Japan. pp. 305—324. London: Routledge
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2006). Dilemmas of Human Relations of Korean International Students in Japan. In Lee. S., Murphy-Shigematsu, S. & Befu, H., (Eds.) Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Education. pp. 213—232. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2004). Ethnic Diversity, Identity and Citizenship in Japan, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Winter, VIII (I): 51—57
Onishi, A. & Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2003). Identity Narratives of Muslim Foreign Workers in Japan. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 13: 224—239
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (2002). Multiethnic Japan. Review of book by John Lie, Harvard University Press, Social Science Journal Japan, October, 5(2), 297—300.
Identities of Multiethnic People in Japan.” In Japan and Global Migration: Foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society, 2000

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Audio & Video

When Half is Whole: The Multicultural Person, Family, and Society in a Globalized World. ICAS Temple University Japan, June 19, 2015
The Celtic Samurai

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When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, Stanford University Press, 2012

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