Robert Asahina
Autore di Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: photo by Wagner International
Opere di Robert Asahina
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1950
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- New York University
University of Michigan - Attività lavorative
- editor (New York Sun)
film critic
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 105
- Popolarità
- #183,191
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
(Not-so) small annoyance: the reader should have been coached better on the pronunciation of Japanese surnames and Hawai'i place names. It's petty, but it grates on my nerves every time I had to hear him drawl out names like Ito (EE-toe) and Inouye (ee-know-WAY) repeatedly, and then just butcher others like I'olani (eye-oh-laaan-ee) Palace, yet gives a fairly graceful and practiced pronunciation of French and German place names. Just a little coaching would have done wonders. Also, when the reader quotes individuals, with an exaggerated American Southern drawl, and German and French accents, it is just annoying and tacky.… (altro)