Rice Growing in Fujiyama
Nikko Temples, Kyoto, Japan
Japan's Rising Sun
Journey Through Tokyo
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Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or tsunami. Japan may offer lessons to other countries as climate change causes more natural disasters globally. theworld.org |
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Modern Kyoto Research, a new digital resource for researchers, students, visitors, and general readers interested in debating, analyzing, and learning about change and continuity in Kyoto from the 1850s to the present day.
Building on up-to-date scholarship, and making full use of visual and other primary sources, various thematic units investigate not only how Kyoto's image was constructed in the modern period but open a window on people and places often excluded from popular histories and public promotions. Users will hopefully find the site accessible and visually appealing, as well as critical and diverse in its perspectives on the city/region over the last 170 years.
At present, there are uploaded units on inbound tourism in Kyoto, 1872-1941 (Andrew Elliott), Kyoto and the Asia-Pacific War (Oliver Moxham), Kyoto tourism during the Allied Occupation (Riichi Endo), and war-related sites in contemporary Kyoto (Daniel Milne).
Other units in the pipeline include punk in Kyoto, interwar Geisha in Kyoto, and Kyoto vegetables and food-related regional branding.
Please follow this link to find the site: www.modernkyotoresearch.org
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I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Earthquake Children Image Archive. This archive, containing over 500 images, serves as a companion to my book Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020).
Please visit www.earthquakechildren.com
The images contained in this website visually document children's experiences of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake and daily life in 1920s Tokyo. Sources range from postcards, children's drawings and photographs, to maps, architectural drawings and memorabilia. In addition to images of and by children, the collection depicts teachers, imperial family members, government officials, policemen, doctors, nurses, foreign tourists, and other adults involved in providing relief, education and care of children in the aftermath of the Great Kantō Earthquake.
Today, as Japan marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 2023, I hope your visit to this website also encourages you to review your own knowledge of what to do in the event of a future earthquake, wherever you are in the world.
Janet Borland
International Christian University
The transcribed and annotated personal letters of Robert H. Pruyn, second U.S. minister to Japan (1862-1865), are now available as an open-source .pdf document on the University at Albany's Scholars Archive at https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/eas_fac_scholar/19/.
Pruyn was a prolific correspondent to his wife, Jane Ann Lansing Pruyn. The letters--600 pages in all--cover the three years that Pruyn spent in Japan while his wife and youngest son remained in Albany. The content covers Pruyn's activites in Japan, the expatriate community in Yokohama and Kanagawa, diplomatic issues, life in Albany, New York state politics, and Pruyn family history. I hope that they will be of interest to a broad community of scholars, both of Japanese and American history.
Questions about the resource may be sent to sfessler@albany.edu.
Susanna Fessler, Professor, State University of New York at Albany
BLA is a podcast channel where authors of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences talk about their books through interviews in Japanese. BLA is operated by an independent, non-profit group that is not affiliated with any organization or institution.
It is available 2-4 Wednesdays a month via Youtube, spotify, google podcast, apple podcast, and stand fm.
This is the best audio media for those who want to know what's going on in Japanese humanities and social sciences. It may also be used for training in academic spoken Japanese.
You are very welcome to talk about your own book written in English, but interview must be conducted in Japanese.
launch of the online exhibition "Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868): a Virtual Journey": https://t.co/2bGgqJKAjn?amp=1
I curated the exhibition in collaboration with the John Rylands Research Institute and Library of the University of Manchester. The exhibition is based on items from the Japanese Maps collection (you can browse the now complete collection on Manchester Digital Collections: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/japanesemaps/1).
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The programming team behind JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film is proud to share the full lineup for the hybrid 15th edition of the festival, slated for August 20 - September 2, 2021: https://www.japansociety.org/arts-and-culture/films/japan-cuts-festival-of-new-japanese-film
Films will again be available to rent via video streaming (across the U.S., with some titles accessible worldwide), in addition to select in-person screenings at Japan Society in NYC following health and safety policies. Expanding the festival's reach beyond New York, the lineup includes 27 features and 12 short films. The exclusive selection will be supplemented with recorded introductions from filmmakers and live video discussions via social media channels to maintain the festival's sense of community and dedication to intercultural communication.
The Centerpiece Presentation is WIFE OF A SPY (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa), awarding the 2021 CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film to Yu Aoi. Along with the Feature Slate, Classics, Documentary Focus, Experimental Spotlight, and Shorts Showcase, the second edition of the Next Generation section highlighting independently produced narrative feature films by emerging directors will be juried by film scholar Kyoko Hirano; Brian Hu, Artistic Director of Pacific Arts Movement; and Japanese film subtitler and translator Don Brown, awarding the Obayashi Prize.
Please browse the entire dynamic lineup on the website, listed below by program section:
FEATURE SLATE
- Aristocrats (dir. Yukiko Sode)
- Come and Go (dir. Lim Kah Wai)
- Company Retreat (dir. Atsushi Funahashi)
- The Goldfish: Dreaming of the Sea (dir. Sara Ogawa)
- The Great Yokai War: Guardians (dir. Takashi Miike)
- It's a Summer Film! (dir. Soushi Matsumoto)
- Ito (dir. Satoko Yokohama)
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (dir. Daihachi Yoshida)
- Labyrinth of Cinema (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (dir. Takashi Koizumi)
- Talking the Pictures (dir. Masayuki Suo)
- Wife of a Spy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Wonderful Paradise (dir. Masashi Yamamoto)
NEXT GENERATION
- B/B (dir. Kosuke Nakahama)
- Mari and Mari (dir. Tatsuya Yamanishi)
- My Sorry Life (dir. Kozue Nomoto)
- Sasaki in My Mind (dir. Takuya Uchiyama)
- Spaghetti Code Love (dir. Takeshi Maruyama)
- Town Without Sea (dir. Elaiza Ikeda)
CLASSICS
- Hiruko the Goblin (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, New 2K Restoration)
- Robinson's Garden (dir. Masashi Yamamoto, Newly Remastered)
- To Sleep So as to Dream (dir. Kaizo Hayashi, New 2K Restoration)
DOCUMENTARY FOCUS
- No Smoking (dir. Taketoshi Sado)
- Ushiku (dir. Thomas Ash)
- Why You Can't Be Prime Minister (dir. Arata Oshima)
EXPERIMENTAL SPOTLIGHT
- The Blue Danube (dir. Akira Ikeda)
- Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (dir. Haruka Komori & Natsumi Seo)
SHORTS SHOWCASE (EXPERIMENTAL)
- HONEYMOON (dir. Yu Araki)
- In a Mere Metamorphosis (dir. Onohana)
- June 4, 2020 (dir. Yoko Yuki)
- Night Snorkeling (dir. Nao Yoshigai & Hirofumi Nakamoto)
- RED TABLE (dir. Hakhyun Kim)
- Reflective Notes (Reconfiguration) (dir. Koki Tanaka)
- School Radio to Major Tom (dir. Takuya Chisaka)
- ZONA (dir. Masami Kawai)
SHORTS SHOWCASE (NARRATIVE)
- Among Four of Us (dir. Mayu Nakamura)
- Born Pisces (dir. Yoko Yamanaka)
- Go Seppuku Yourselves (dir. Toshiaki Toyoda)
- Leo's Return (dir. Anshul Chauhan)
We hope many H-Japan subscribers are able to enjoy—please do share with your networks.
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-The JAPAN CUTS Team
K. F. Watanabe, Alexander Fee, Joel Neville Anderson