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JapanCulture•NYC

JapanCulture•NYC is proudly advertising free and strives to be the leading English-language resource for Japanese culture in New York City, highlighting the people and activities of New York’s Japanese and Japanese American community. From the arts to food to everything in between, JapanCulture•NYC looks for the best of Japanese culture the city has to offer.

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SUSAN HAMAKER

Freelance Writer • Editor, JapanCulture•NYC

With a Caucasian father and an Okinawan mother, Susan McCormac Hamaker gave little regard to her Japanese heritage while growing up in a small town in North Carolina. She began studying Japanese at the age of thirty, finding it one of the most difficult and most fascinating things she’s ever done.

Now completely obsessed with Japan, Susan visits the country every year and does all she can to find the language and culture wherever she goes. She’s fortunate to live in New York City, where there are no shortages of restaurants, shops, art exhibits, concerts, events, and people related to her favorite place.

Susan continues to study the language and looks for the intersection between traditional and contemporary Japanese culture. Her goal with JapanCulture•NYC is not only to educate non-Japanese people about Japan, but to strengthen the Japanese and Japanese American community in New York.

In addition to JapanCulture•NYC, Susan has contributed stories to Chopsticks NY, NY Seikatsu, AsianInNY, and the Epoch Times and essays about Japanese baseball to the website Baseball Reflections. She also sporadically blogs at shrinecastle.com.

Susan lives in New York City with her husband and their cat, Berkley.