2020/03/27

collection of 89 videos in Open Access (Smithsonian Institution) project

Results can be filtered by topic, among other things. Many of these go back in time a generation or more ago and serve as a time-travel experience.

2020/03/14

since the 1970s - the arc of Japanese society

Nice news feature that gives wide view, both for experts to reflect on and for new learners to see.

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...In Japan, 1970 marked a decade of unprecedented growth and optimism among large numbers of Japanese, who were convinced the future would only get brighter despite growing problems of environmental pollution and an urban infrastructure struggling to keep up with the waves of people relocating from rural to urban areas in search of prosperity. Newspapers touted Japan's first satellite, the Lambda 4S-5 rocket, and reported on an experimental technology being tested at a Tokyo bank called an "automatic cash dispenser," which allowed you to withdraw cash with a special plastic card.

      Against this background, the Osaka Expo opened to the general public on March 15, 1970. It came just six years after the hugely successful 1964 Tokyo Olympics. By the time the expo ended 183 days later on Sept. 13, a record 64 million visitors had passed through its gates.


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