Buddhist &related Art

Other World History Teaching and Learning Resources: "Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 slides and photos of Asian art and architecture. Materials are predominantly Buddhist but include Hindu, Jain, Islamic, and other works (dating back to 2500... (Ohio State University, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities)"

online encyclopedia of Shinto launched

http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/
Questions should be directed to Inoue Nobutaka, Kokugakuin University
Telephone: +81 (0)3-5466-0205, n-inoue@kt.rim.or[dot jp]

sources of images

A couple of sources of pictures that come to mind are www.flickr.com (the ones in the public section are tagged with keywords like
temple, japan, chio-in, and so forth); many of these are labelled with the Creative Commons limited copyright conditions, such as
freely use with photographer attribution.

Association for Asian Studies, www.aasianst.org, is providing a place for sharing photos, too, although it is not fully functioning
yet.

Other places I've found rich viewing is the photogalleries at www.japansociety.org and www.tjf.or.jp/deai (as well as their photo essay
area, "photo cafe" I think they call it)

I have some very basic comparisions of Japan/Korea at www.umich.edu/~wittevee/korea/andjapan which can be used for educational
purposes, as well.

chapters on foodways

FOOD AND FOODWAYS IN ASIA: RESOURCE, TRADITION AND COOKING. Edited by Sidney C.H. CHEUNG
and TAN Chee-Beng, published by Routledge in 2007.
[Japan chapters]
2. Namako and Iriko: Historical overview on holothurian (sea cucumber) exploitation, utilization and trade in Japan. Akamine Jun
9. Indigenous Food and Foodways: Mapping the production of Ainu food in Tokyo. Mark K. Watson
14. Asia' s Contributions to World Cuisine: a beginning inquiry. Sidney W. Mintz

Japan schools to teach patriotism

Japan's lower house of parliament approves a new law requiring schools to
teach children to be patriotic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/6669061.stm

assessing Japan's shifting population pyramid

from www.japanfocus.org [using searchbox or topics list]
Vaclav Smil, The Unprecedented Shift in Japan's Population: Numbers, Age,
and Prospects

The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research latest
long-range forecast of the country's population showed, once again, a
faster decline than previously anticipated: the medium variant projects
the total population of only about 90 million (89.93) people by 2055, the
igure that both Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun found "shocking". This
was followed by a population projection to 2050 by the United Nations
Population Division and Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications latest nationwide estimate of Japan's population. Japan's
population (including foreign residents) peaked in December 2004 at
127,838,000 people and only a tunning, not just surprising, turn of
demographic fortunes can prevent the combination of relatively rapid
population decline and of unprecedented aging of the country's population.
This article assesses the projections.

archive of 80 Japan photos 1945-1952 (occupation)

cross-posting from H-Japan (www.h-net.msu.edu)
The Center for Japanese Studies, the University of Hawaii at Mnoa, is
pleased to announce the Walter Pennino Photo Collection is available on
the Internet. The collection presents eighty photos during the occupation
of Japan. Many of them show every-day life of people in Japan at that time.

http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs/pennino_entrance.html

Boys Day 5/5, also a music page

Boys Day (5/5), www.nihongomemo.com/nenchugyoji/tangonosekku.htm

BEAUTIFUL melodies (incl. Japanese melodies), http://mocascafe.la.coocan.jp/musicpage.htm

yakitori in San Jose, audio slideshow

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2007/04/sumiya/soundslider.swf

taiko at San Jose

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2007/04/sjtaiko/soundslider.swf
[one minute audio slideshow, with captions available]

70329 remaining

edt ms44@cornell >iff permission to distribute snippets?
EXCERPT-1 (all about the fire-bombing) =track103, 3' to track107, 1'
EXCERPT-2 (US policy change & today's mil) = track108,4' to tr109,1'

wkplan by 4/11; miwla done (cf. recommended Guidelines)
em pers-filtered; unread viewed; duds gone (incl. deleted; sent>pend v done)
if Hartland HS album/picasaweb v. Export.html
booklist all ordered & requested display copies

cosplay [costume play in Japan]

http://visuaalinen.blogspot.com/ [K. N.]

Japanese Movie Database

cf entries found on http://imdb.com

Japan Movie Database Description: Set your browser's encoding to Shift-JIS as the website has not set the encoding for the page

poorly translatable English to Japanese sensibilities

I'd love to see a collection of observations like these in order to
discern a pattern:

<for a colleague leaving her job> ...we'll miss you
-- in Japanese it is the one leaving that says, "...wasurenai de kudasai"
[please don't forget me]

<for yourself or others> ...he's happy
-- in Japanese one's happiness is instead, "...omoshiroi" or "ureshii"
but very seldom "shiawase"

<posing for camera> ... smile
-- in Japanese there is a word/phrase, but seldom is it used

<referring laughter> ...we laughed a lot
-- in Japanese there is a word, but seldom did I hear it used

<by way of greeting or as a show of interest/concern> ..ogenki desu ka
-- in English, "are you all right" implies a serious condition, not casual
remark; also "genki" is more than physical comfort and includes mental
condition

article, homeless in Japan

Metropolis, 3/9/2007 No. 676
"The Big Issue Japan"
http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/recent/globalvillage.asp

movie, Letters from Iwo Jima

H-JAPAN [archived at www.h-net.msu.edu]
March 12, 2007

From: Janet R. Goodwin <jan@pollux.csustan Dot Ed>

I see no reason why Letters from Iwo Jima should be considered a whitewash
of Japanese military behavior. Eastwood, in the humanist mode
of, well, Akira Kurosawa, examined the diverse reactions of people in a
horrendous, and helpless, situation. He saw these people not as
"Japanese soldiers" but as soldiers who happened to be Japanese. That's
why it was a good film. To demand that all Japanese soldiers be
portrayed as brutal because there were those in the Japanese army who
committed brutal acts makes me, as an American in the days of Abu
Ghraib and Guantanamo, feel very uncomfortable indeed.

--Janet Goodwin, H-Japan co-editor

mergers of towns - Shiga

Shiga map of the newly merged municipalities, http://photoguide.jp/txt/Shiga_Prefecture

video on Japan online

Web Japan videos is http://web-japan.org/jvt/index.html

summer mtg JP anthro - June

JASCA Annual Meeting (at Nagoya U), June 2-3: http://www.jasca.org/meeting/41st/