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PODCAST: NPR All Things Considered on Brooklynite Anthony Bianchi’s election to Inuyama City Council, April 30, 2003
Posted by debito on July 15th, 2011
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NPR ON BROOKLYNITE ANTHONY BIANCHI’S ELECTION TO INUYAMA CITY COUNCIL, broadcast on National Public Radio April 30, 2003. Writeup from NPR:
“NPR’s Melissa Block talks with Tony Bianchi, a Brooklyn native who was elected to the Inuyama city council in Japan last Sunday, about his campaign and its outcome. Bianchi is a naturalized Japanese citizen and the first person of North American origin ever to be elected to public office in Japan.”
Duration 4 minutes 15 seconds. Enjoy!
NPR All Things Considered on Anthony Bianchi's election to Inuyama City Council, broadcast April 30, 2003 [ 4:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
July 15th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Good man!
And dare i say, sounds easy?
First to run for office gets in, thats a 100% strike rate.
– And he’s been re-elected since.
July 17th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Seeing Anothony Bianchi elected, a naturalized caucasion Japanese, gives me great hope that things can change for the better here.
Its too bad they keep calling him a foreigner (gaikokujin), when after all he’s naturalized AND he represents a an entire town of Japanese people.
– Who does?
August 11th, 2011 at 10:39 am
The part about his Brooklyn accent helping with Japanese pronunciation was interesting. I wonder if it works in reverse? And what other accents/dialects of different languages come close like that?
– I’m no linguist, but I think the “flapped” (for want of a better word) pronunciation of “d” in Spanish and Japanese helps both sides. So I’ve been told by students on both sides. And then you get to the immense commonalities (grammar, expository style) between Korean and Japanese…!