Robert Asahina
Autor de Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: photo by Wagner International
Obras de Robert Asahina
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1950
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- New York University
University of Michigan - Ocupaciones
- editor (New York Sun)
film critic
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 105
- Popularidad
- #183,191
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 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.… (más)