http://japanfocus.org/-Linda-Hoaglund/4203 is connected to the MIT Visualizing Cultures project and includes video and many images.
For teachers of Japanese this rich visual material tells about important times in Japan. For students of Japanese, as well, this chapter of Japanese life is worth knowing.
[excerpt from the introduction in the article itself]
The image-driven VC explorations of protest in Japan begin in 1905 and end with the massive "Ampō" demonstrations against revision of the U.S.-Japan mutual security treaty in 1960. The four treatments that will be reproduced in The Asia-Pacific Journal beginning in this issue are as follows:
1. Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905, by Andrew Gordon. We reprint this article with this introduction. Other articles will follow in the coming months.
2. Political Protest in Interwar Japan: Posters & Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s~1930s), by Christopher Gerteis (in two units).
3. Protest Art in 1950s Japan: The Forgotten Reportage Painters, by Linda Hoaglund.
4. Tokyo 1960: Days of Rage & Grief: Hamaya Hiroshi's Photos of the Anti-Security-Treaty Protests, by Justin Jesty.
2014/10/13
online segments (science news)
Good listening practice; cross-posting from Senseionline (yahoo groups), thanks to Mio T.
series of science news for children on you tube. There are 45 episodes.
One of them is 「紅葉の季節がはじまる。」 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tr4PjdjK9s
Program list at the science channel, http://sc-smn.jst.go.jp/M100002/
One of them is 「紅葉の季節がはじまる。」 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tr4PjdjK9s
Program list at the science channel, http://sc-smn.jst.go.jp/M100002/
2014/09/16
Urban sites abandoned in Japan
Yet another side of Post-Industrial society is the collection of discarded, abandoned and defunct facilities.
Here is a small set of presentations,, http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/exploring-japans-abandoned-haikyo-effect-communities-stuff-watch/
Opening lines of article follow here,
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As with any populous country that's experienced a shift in demographics over the past century or so, Japan is littered with abandoned locations devoid of human population – a phenomena known as "haikyo."
Urban exploration involves actively seeking out and documenting these places in photographs and videos for all to see. Enthusiasts risk personal safety and being caught by authorities to bring the rest of us some amazing sites.
Here are some highlights from Japan, home to some of the oddest abandoned locations.
Urban exploration involves actively seeking out and documenting these places in photographs and videos for all to see. Enthusiasts risk personal safety and being caught by authorities to bring the rest of us some amazing sites.
Here are some highlights from Japan, home to some of the oddest abandoned locations.
2014/09/03
online photos - Okinawa; Ryukyu collection
cross-posting from H-Japan of 2014 September 3:
List of the titles of the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection online
The University of the Ryukyus Special Collections Archives
The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library's Sakamaki/Hawley Collection
Resources on Okinawa/Ryukyus online
The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library and the University of the Ryukyus Library are pleased to announce the availability of the digital archives site for the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection.Over hundred items of 218 digitized titles are now online at the University of the Ryukyus Library Ryukyu/Okinawa Special Collections Digital Archives. In addition to content summaries & explanations in English & Japanese, special features such as a glass view function, modern language translations, and text reprints of the original language will be added at a later date. Please stay tuned for the rest of the digitized titles to be online early 2015.List of the titles of the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection online
The University of the Ryukyus Special Collections Archives
The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library's Sakamaki/Hawley Collection
2014/08/30
matsuri (Kyoto area) - photos & video clips
Nice photo story at exposure.co with brief description, many vivid pictures and a few video clips:
2014/06/29
Tokyo statues
Public art on the streets of Seoul is diverse and numerous, but Tokyo has some notable statues, too, according to this article from AtlasObscura.com where an eclectic mix of stories appear with the search term japan.
2014/06/13
documentary - Buddhism response to Tsunami 3.11
http://soulsofzen.com includes 2.5 minutes (trailer)
[background to this visual project]
This documentary explores the role of Buddhism in care for the 3/11 bereaved and the dead based on attention to the everyday lives of Buddhist professionals in the disaster zone. Shot from March to December 2011 with a focus on Zen and Pure Land Buddhism, the film captures Buddhist temples and local communities in their struggles to rebuild. By contextualizing the triple disaster within recent rapid transformations in Buddhism and Japan's enduring tradition of ancestor veneration, Souls of Zen reflects on the complex role of Buddhism in a society shaped by natural disasters, religious pluralism, and demographic change.
Tim Graf is a Ph.D. candidate at Heidelberg University (Religious Studies), and a Ph.D. candidate and Research Associate at Tohoku University (School of Law). He worked at the Collaborative Research Center Ritual Dynamics at Heidelberg University and conducted fieldwork on Zen Buddhism as a JSPS fellow at the University of Tokyo. His research interests focus on transformations of Buddhism in contemporary Japan and more broadly deal with the interplay of religious practice and modern social change.
[cross-posted from H-Japan announcement for screening in Tokyo at Sophia U. in June 2014]
2014/06/08
"Tower of the Sun"
From the 1970 World Expo near Osaka at Suita-city and near the grounds of Minpaku.ac.jp, the National Museum of Ethnology:
Short blog article and photos.
2014/05/23
Fwd: views of Kuril Islands and brief history in 20th century
Short photo story from the editors of AtlasObscura.com this week,
2014/05/14
2014/04/27
compressing time - Time Lapse views around Japan
-- search string at vimeo.com, http://vimeo.com/search?q=japan+timelapse
Techniques vary from long video that has be condensed (extracted still frames), to timer devices or programs to snap photos (fed into video software for playback), or a combination of both methods: pulling from video, or pouring in still images. Scenes tend to be places with motion such as traffic points for roads, trains or people. Sunrise or set, clouds across the land or seascape, and flowing water are popular views. Music often accompanies the playback, either contemplative classical or piano chored, or else techno with rapid percussive feeling to accompany the speeded up perspective of compressed time. Field recording (e.g. the sound of flowing water to accompany a rice paddy time lapse) is rare. A few projects combine all of these things: still image, time lapse, full-motion (normal playback) video.
The value of foreshortening time (and perhaps the opposite, recording/presenting things in slower than normal motion, but not freezing altogether) comes from detecting patterns and relationships that otherwise do not seem salient or offer any sociological insight or significance. So beyond aesthetic novelty, these are thinking tools, or food for thinking. Cars zooming around, sunrises at crazy rates, and people moving like rapid robots can soon become dull. But the change in seasons, flow of air, water or shadows never seems tiring to watch.
Tokyo water bus (1 min.), http://vimeo.com/7144128
Roppongi Hills sunset (1 min.), http://vimeo.com/26781363
Hachiko statue (20 seconds), http://vimeo.com/27562931
Walking and Timelapse (2 min.), http://vimeo.com/92529217
Hakone cablecar (ropeway; 1 min.), http://vimeo.com/962369
Compilation "hayaku" (8 min.), http://vimeo.com/12112529
Hokkaido vistas (1 min.), http://vimeo.com/77701966
2014/04/26
timelapse playback - downtown Kyoto to Narita
http://vimeo.com/92989467 shows the view from car dashboard. It begins at normal speed, then changes to "time lapse" to take one photo every few seconds for video playback.
The result is a 5 hour drive plays back in 45 minutes. Of course you can fast-forward to browse the scenes along the way.
This is not an exciting block-buster movie, but it does show the land, the traffic and signs along the way.
2014/04/19
collection of 800 slides, Japanese Religions
via H-Japan announcement 19 April 2014
Photo Archive of Japanese Religions
The Nanzan Institute has prepared an open-source collection of visual images related to Japanese religions, based on a donation of over 800 slides from Ian Reader, professor at Lancaster University. All images may be downloaded free of charge in two formats: one suitable for multimedia presentations and the other at high-resolution suitable for printing.
How to use: Go to http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/activities/photo-archive-of-japanese-religions/
Select an album from the Main Gallery. You will be brought to a page with thumbnails of all the images in that album. There are two options here:
(1) Clicking on any image will bring up a page with that image and related data, often including detailed commentary by Ian Reader.
(2) Clicking on Start Slideshow will run you through the entire set of pictures. You can click on the circled images at the bottom to select another slide.
The menu bar at the top right of the Slideshow gives you options for pausing and downloading. Clicking on the top left on the menu bar brings you back to the album's main page. The search function in the menu bar covers all the data included in the descriptions.
When using an image for printed material, we ask that you add the following acknowledgement: "From the Photo Archives of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan."
The Nanzan Institute has prepared an open-source collection of visual images related to Japanese religions, based on a donation of over 800 slides from Ian Reader, professor at Lancaster University. All images may be downloaded free of charge in two formats: one suitable for multimedia presentations and the other at high-resolution suitable for printing.
How to use: Go to http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/activities/photo-archive-of-japanese-religions/
Select an album from the Main Gallery. You will be brought to a page with thumbnails of all the images in that album. There are two options here:
(1) Clicking on any image will bring up a page with that image and related data, often including detailed commentary by Ian Reader.
(2) Clicking on Start Slideshow will run you through the entire set of pictures. You can click on the circled images at the bottom to select another slide.
The menu bar at the top right of the Slideshow gives you options for pausing and downloading. Clicking on the top left on the menu bar brings you back to the album's main page. The search function in the menu bar covers all the data included in the descriptions.
When using an image for printed material, we ask that you add the following acknowledgement: "From the Photo Archives of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan."
2014/04/16
visual stories
From the newly launched site for photo storytelling, http://exposure.co
Tsunami Streetwalk 1, Kesennuma Tsunami Streetwalk 2, Kamaishi Children Of The Lotus Tokyo Love Hello Gangster Types And Tough Guys
Here are close-up photos from 2 festivals in the Kansai area, https://dataichi.exposure.co/matsuri
The captions are not very ethnographic, but the images are valuable.
The Atlas Obscura collection of museums, exhibits, and events includes many under the tag "japan" as well.
The user groups at flickr.com include many, many connected to Japan, such as:
Japan Hiking Photography 日本のハイキング写真 =212 members
Japan Through the Eyes of Others =5,639 members
Japan Images =12,736 members
Japan Deluxe 日本デラックス =597 members
Japan and Germany / 日本とドイツ =144 members
Japan Network 2007 (Post 1, Comment on 3) =58 members
Japan 2011: Tokyo Fuji Kyoto Tokyo =1 member
Japan by tips4travels =99 members
Japan in Postcards =252 members
Japan, View of the Mysterious Village =22 members
Japan Donations =222 members
Japan Weekend =17 members
Japan cultural assets =71 members
Japan Eats =102 members
JAPAN: The Balance of Old and New (MUST have Old AND New) =497 members
The interactive essays at Magnum In Motion (audio, video, text, hotlinks) include:
... - March 11th 2011 (chris steele-perkins, earthquake, japan, Kesennuma, Magnum In Motion, magnum photography, magnum photos, ...
FLV Essay - 03/05/2012 - 12:21pm - 0 comments
... - March 11th 2011 (chris steele-perkins, earthquake, japan, Kamaishi, Magnum In Motion, magnum photographer, magnum photos, tsunami) ...
FLV Essay - 03/05/2012 - 12:21pm - 0 comments
... buddhism, buddhists, cambodia, china, documentary, japan, journey, korea, laos, magnum, magnum photographer, monks, myanmar, sri ...
FLV Essay - 04/21/2011 - 9:29am - 0 comments
... out. -Chris Steele-Perkins. (chris steele-perkins, HP, japan, love, tokyo, travelogue) ...
FLV Essay - 05/01/2009 - 3:01pm - 5 comments
... gangster types and tough guys, gangsters, george abe, go, japan, magnum photographer, magnum photos, new york city, tough guys, yakuza) ...
FLV Essay - 02/12/2010 - 4:24pm - 16 comments
2014/01/22
View the world with these 40 surprising maps
Visual context for worldview in 40 maps: These visual treats will prompt lots of thinking and talking. Share with others keen on understanding the world and its people.
2014/01/21
all about Soba
The morning radio show "Morning Edition" carried a nice story about making and eating soba.
[opening excerpt]
Traditional Japanese cuisine, known as washoku, is now an Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to the United Nations.
Tofu, mochi and miso are a few examples, but it's the buckwheat noodle, or soba, that many consider the humble jewel of Japanese cuisine. It's not easy to find in the U.S., but one Los Angeles woman is helping preserve the craft of making soba.
In a cooking classroom off a busy street in L.A., Sonoko Sakai is teaching about the simplicity of making buckwheat noodles.
"Basically, soba is only two things: flour and water," Sakai explains.
A handful of students gather around the slender Sakai as she shows them how to mix the flour and water together.
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While teaching English in rural west Japan (Takefu city, merged and renamed Echizen city in 2005) I was introduced to the local pride, cold soba with grated daikon radish: Oroshi Soba. One aficionado credited the soba to Saracens in Central Asia. And since the 30-40 km radius to Takefu boasts uniquely chewy and flavorful soba tradition, they claim the True Tradition of Soba. In recent years they opened the "soba dojo" or practice hall where busloads of day trippers and area school children, elderly day-center people and others learn all about the varieties of the noodle. There is a restaurant, museum and gift counter as well, all dedicated to celebrate the humble and sincere treat. See panoramas of the display case diorama showing soba making in miniature, http://tinyurl.com/sobadojo1 and http://tinyurl.com/sobadojo2
2014/01/20
2013/11/04
2013/10/21
taiko, Chicago
promoting Japanese culture in Great Lakes area, http://mcachicago.org/performances/now/all/2014/1017
2013/08/19
central Tokyo, robotic bike parking underground [video]
[cross post from Rushton Hurley's monthly ed tech news, Next Vista.org]
How about a bicycle park in Japan that is mostly underground to save precious surface space?
This video is part of a Japanese culture series... http://youtu.be/pcZSU40RBrg?t=10s
2013/06/21
tozan, yama nobori, hiking, mountain climbing
However you call it, the views are great. Pictures from Otsuji-yama in Toyama-ken, June 2013.
Summit altitude 1,361 meters.
[photo credits, T. Saito]
2013/06/07
images 1923, The Great Kanto Earthquake
new image site from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library:
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/
The Great Kanto Earthquake Japan of 1923 provides access to 199 images from a historical album of still photos captured destruction by the deadliest
earthquake occurred on September 1st, 1923. The project was funded by the UHM Library and the National Research Center, East Asia Grant (NRC-EA).
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/
The Great Kanto Earthquake Japan of 1923 provides access to 199 images from a historical album of still photos captured destruction by the deadliest
earthquake occurred on September 1st, 1923. The project was funded by the UHM Library and the National Research Center, East Asia Grant (NRC-EA).
2013/03/26
video - Fukushima disaster +24 months
Two years on: this 5 minute youtube video includes many comments by local people (with subtitles).
Cross linking from full article, http://japanfocus.org/events/view/177
Context: Dr David McNeill is the Japan correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education and writes for The Independent and Irish Times newspapers. He covered the nuclear disaster for all three publications, has been to Fukushima ten times since 11 March 2011, and has written the book Strong in the Rain (with Lucy Birmingham) about the disasters. He is an Asia-Pacific Journal coordinator.
2013/03/07
online "Saving 10,000 lives" at YouTube
On March 6, 2013 the director, Dr. Rene Duignan, presented his 51 minute movie about the high rate of suicide in Japan to members of the news media & the National Diet. He documents the problem, the causes, the solutions, and the social consequences. Mental health professionals, researchers, teachers, friends and family members may benefit from this open discussion of a difficult topic.
http://tinyurl.com/saving10000 [full movie just uploaded], http://www.saving10000.com [website, including trailer for movie]
2013/02/15
info-graphics project 2010
Student project (about 11 minutes), "Japan: The Strange Country"
https://vimeo.com/9873910#embed [video description, below]
This visual medium is effective for showing statistics and simplifying complicated subjects.
WARNING: topic 7 (Love Hotels) and 8 (Suicide rates) would not be suitable for young learners.
But for older students and colleagues, friends and so on, this online project is worth browsing and discussing.
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from the video page,
This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn't that normal. So I created this video from foreigner's point of view, rather than Japanese people's point of view.
Both English and Japanese versions are available.
By the way, please don't call me racist, because I am one of short, small eyes Japanese.
2013/01/22
website, 400 years of British - Japanese relations
cross-posted from H-Japan at www.h-net.org
2013 marks the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations. King James l sent Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hidetada presents and a letter, which were
received in September, 1613. The letter survives in Tokyo University.
Ieyasu received a telescope - the first ever sent to Asia - and Hidetada a precious cup and cover. The Shogun reciprocated with two suits of armour
(which are extant), and Ieyasu gave five pairs of gold screens (lost) and a shuuinjo, which survives in Oxford University. A vast number of events is planned for 2013, including a major show at the British Museum which will open 400 to the day after the date of the shuuinjo. We aim for '400 connections for 400 years',
http://www.japan400.com
2012/12/17
rock song of USA, Japan cliches
Here is a highly polished, context-free, series of icons and stereotypes presented in the form of a music video from USA expat in Japan, A. York.
The presentation includes a playful, self-aware, ironic or parodic dimension.
But as an example of a Cultural Production, it is heavily laden with popular, commercial or commoditized meanings.
2012/12/05
practice listening to Japanese
[keep up with live, spoken Japanese] nice short podcasts of interviews on business and other topics: http://www.nhk.or.jp/r-asa/
2012/11/14
teaching the 3.11 triple disaster of N.E. Japan 2011
http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2012-2013/Teaching_3.11_syllabi.html
[page description] ...syllabi that were presented at our workshop (which can also be downloaded as a compiled pdf document as well as syllabi that other individuals have kindly sent in. Below the list of syllabi you will also find a list of other relevant sources and links. If you would like to have your syllabi, blog, or other resource listed on this webpage please email us [diricc(at)sophia.ac.jp].
2012/08/11
scenes from Kansai (Sakai-city) and Fukui-ken
Students of Japanese may be curious to see how far their knowledge of kanji goes when it comes to Simplified Chinese in the slideshows gathered together about Chinese language (below). And they may like to see the photo sets from Japan, too:
a) Posted signboards all around the International Youth Hostel near KIX
b) Other examples of Japanese "in the wild" that I viewed around Sakai-city and also Fukui-ken
Here are the photos overall, http://bit.ly/echizen2012
Photos by theme/topic are grouped at http://www.slideshare.net/anthroview/presentations
The China photos (mostly around Urumqi, but also some from the silk road town of Turpan; also from up north: Altay prefecture)
are online at http://bit.ly/altay2012xuar
And the photos by theme/topic are also at http://www.slideshare.net/anthroview/slideshelf
2012/07/29
Five short summer videos - Fukui-ken
Five short video segments of the land, language and look of things middle July in Fukui-ken.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthroview/7661305558/in/photostreamJuly 2012 at Kono-mura on the Fukui-ken coast of the Japan sea. This was Wednesday, but the summer weekends are flooded with people on beaches, roads and water. The two women searching the rocks (speaking something other than Japanese) appear to be poaching 'sazae' -not good for the ecosystem.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthroview/7658524106/in/photostreamValleypanorama of Japan's main island west coast, Fukui-ken (July 15). Note the land use patterns: neat rice paddy irrigation system, electrical power cables, Hino River levy, homes concentrated to maximize productive spaces.
Buddhist temple bell ringing, http://youtu.be/MVS4JFWXtzUThe 7 a.m. bell at Daihou-ji, a Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhist temple, in Echizen-city, Fukui-ken in July 2012. In Japanese: includes lesson on how to achieve maximum sound when striking the bronze bell. Since nearly all such metals were melted for the Pacific War effort, this present bell dates to post-1945. Note the deep reverberation that follows the ringing.
1 minute 38 seconds
Buddhist temple interior, Jodo sect, http://youtu.be/Vi3d60gMuUYTour of hondo (main hall, 1858) of Daihou-ji in Echizen-city, Fukui-ken in July 2012. Mostly in Japanese.
6 minutes 09 seconds
Train line to Kyoto from 25 km north, http://youtu.be/hagj3YgCfREShort train window video segments on the JR West line into Kyoto from the north, along the west shore of Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture in middle July 2012.
2 minutes 38 seconds
2012/07/28
video segments - July in Fukui prefecture
Five short video segments of the land, language and look of things middle July in Fukui-ken.
July 2012 at Kono-mura on the Fukui-ken coast of the Japan sea. This was Wednesday, but the summer weekends are flooded with people on beaches, roads and water. The two women searching the rocks (speaking something other than Japanese) appear to be poaching 'sazae' -not good for the ecosystem.
Valley panorama of Japan's main island west coast, Fukui-ken (July 15). Note the land use patterns: neat rice paddy irrigation system, electrical power cables, Hino River levy, homes concentrated to maximize productive spaces.
Buddhist temple bell ringing, http://youtu.be/MVS4JFWXtzU
The 7 a.m. bell at Daihou-ji, a Jodo (Pure Land) Buddhist temple, in Echizen-city, Fukui-ken in July 2012. In Japanese: includes lesson on how to achieve maximum sound when striking the bronze bell. Since nearly all such metals were melted for the Pacific War effort, this present bell dates to post-1945. Note the deep reverberation that follows the ringing.
1 minutes 38 seconds
Buddhist temple interior, Jodo sect, http://youtu.be/Vi3d60gMuUY
Tour of hondo (main hall, 1858) of Daihou-ji in Echizen-city, Fukui-ken in July 2012. Mostly in Japanese.
6 minutes 09 seconds
train line to Kyoto from 25 km north, http://youtu.be/hagj3YgCfRE
Short train window video segments on the JR West line into Kyoto from the north, along the west shore of Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture in middle July 2012.
2 minutes 38 seconds
2012/05/30
young people in Japan 2012
cross-posting from Japan Foundation newsletter:
LIGHT UP NIPPON: Introducing Young People's Challenge to Energize the
Devastated Areas in Tohoku Region through Fireworks
The Japan Foundation produced a documentary film that featured challenges by the
young Japanese people supporting Tohoku's recovery for the purpose of presenting
a vivid image of today's young generation in Japan.
young Japanese people supporting Tohoku's recovery for the purpose of presenting
a vivid image of today's young generation in Japan.
2012/05/27
conversion from Chinese characters to several E.Asian readings
http://www.cojak.org/ gives the Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese, both onyomi and kunyumi, for nearly all characters according to today's electronic list for Korean Studies
2012/04/17
Yiddish-Japanese dictionary story
For Japanese Linguist, A Long And Lonely Schlep
by LUCY CRAFT
A smattering of Yiddish words has crept into the American vernacular: Non-Jews go for a nosh or schmooze over cocktails. Yet the language itself, once spoken by millions of Jews, is now in retreat...
2012/03/05
one year anniversary 3.11 disasters
:: Set of articles at japanfocus.org
Christopher S. Thompson,
Alyne Elizabeth Delaney,
Dawn Grimes-MacLellan,
Christopher S. Thompson,
David McNeill,
Sakurai Kunitoshi,
Andrew DeWit,
John O'Brian,
:: Several related events:
1. STS (Science and Technology Studies) Forum on Fukushima,http://fukushimaforum.wordpress.com/conferences
2. Tohoku Tsunami debris flow animation, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17122155
3. photos 11 months on, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099811/Eleven-months-tsunami-earthquake-ravaged-Japan-new-pictures-incredible-progress-multi-billion-pound-clear-up.html
4. more pictures: Eleven months after the tsunami and earthquake ravaged Japan,http://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/world/2012/02/311-2.php
5. Symposium and art exhibition about the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan.
The Fire that Doesn't Go Out, Exhibition Organizing Committee, Exhibition: March 1-30, The Fire that Doesn't Go Out will open on March 1st, 7:00 p.m., at The Baron Gallery in the East College Street Development, Oberlin. There will be a showing of Misato Yugi's video animation, Red Dot Radiation Art, with a live score by the Cleveland group, SINUU. On March 8, the Art Department will host talks by Ellen Johnson Visiting Artists, Yuichiro Nishizawa (at noon in the Baron Gallery) and elin o'Hara slavick (at 7:00 p.m. in Hallock Auditorium).
For a schedule of events and more information on the exhibit, please go to our blog at:http://unendingfire.tumblr.com,
The symposium, Fukushima: Lessons Learned?, will be held on March 9 and 10 in the Norman C. Craig Lecture Hall. The symposium will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 9 with a memorial for the victims of the Tohoku disaster by Leading Edge Speaker, Akira Tashiro, the award-winning editor and reporter for the Hiroshima-based Chugoku Shimbun. This will be followed by a keynote address, Dilemmas of Nuclear Energy, delivered by Dr. Kennette Benedict (OC '69), publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. After a break for dinner, the first panel, Compound Catastrophe and Nuclear Aftermath, will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Detailed information about the symposium schedule and speakers is online athttp://shansi.oberlin.edu/fukushima-lessons-learned.
2012/03/01
documentary, "Sushi - The Global Catch"
cross-posting from the e-list for East Asia Anthropology, EASIANTH
In this meticulously researched documentary, filmmaker Mark Hall traces the origins of sushi in Japan to its status today as a cuisine that has spawned a lucrative worldwide industry. This explosion in demand for sushi over the past 30 years has brought with it problems of its own, as fish stocks have steadily depleted, threatening the balance of the ocean's ecosystems.
Through extensive interviews with prominent industry representatives and environmental activists, Hall carefully presents the various solutions being proposed to the vexing issue of overfishing. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival, Sushi: The
Global Catch raises some pressing questions that all sushi lovers should seek to address.
See the trailer at http://vimeo.com/23332161 or learn more at http://kinolorberedu.com/film.php?id=1244
Through extensive interviews with prominent industry representatives and environmental activists, Hall carefully presents the various solutions being proposed to the vexing issue of overfishing. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival, Sushi: The
Global Catch raises some pressing questions that all sushi lovers should seek to address.
See the trailer at http://vimeo.com/23332161 or learn more at http://kinolorberedu.com/film.php?id=1244
cf. investigative journalism TV at 60 Minutes (12 minute segment) on the Japanese blue fin tuna market & sushi ("The King of Sushi in Trouble"):
2012/02/12
latest textbooks, Beginning & Intermediate Japanese
The full announcement by Tuttle Publishing links to related media (workbook and so forth). Here you have the two textbooks.
The tables of Goals include chapter by chapter targets for kanji, culture, grammar and so on.
Tuttle is pleased to announce the availability of Intermediate Japanese: Your Pathway to Dynamic Language Acquisition. In this second book of a 3-volume series, authors Michael Kluemper and Lisa Berkson continue to teach Japanese through an engaging storyline that emphasizes real-life situations in contemporary Japanese culture and authentic written, visual and oral materials. By the end of this second book, students will have mastered a cumulative total of 300 kanji, well on the way to AP- and IB-level proficiency.
database of lesson plans, culture notes, etc
University of Pittsburgh announces a Teacher Portal. Search the Teaching Materials Database to download the lesson plans and culture notes, read the study tour blogs, and view and/or download photos in the Photo Gallery.
http://noborders.ucis.pitt.edu/nctalib/
2012/02/09
USA HighSchool Students - JET Memorial Invitation Program
Opportunity for US students in grade 11 or 12 who now study Japanese.
[forwarded from EASC at Indiana University]
[forwarded from EASC at Indiana University]
JET Memorial Invitation Program (JET MIP) for High School Students
The JET MIP program provides 32 high school students with the opportunity to go to Japan for two weeks as a group to meet Japanese students, experience Japanese culture, and study the language. It was created in 2011 in memory of the two beloved American teachers of English who lost their lives in the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011: Taylor Anderson(Ishinomaki, Miyagi) and Montgomery Dickson (Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate). The program is open to 11th and 12th graders who are currently learning Japanese, and it seeks to honor the principles which Taylor and Monty valued during their lives. For more information, please visit http://www.jflalc.org/jle-12-jet-mip.html.
2011/11/08
2011/11/03
(colonial days) pre 1945 Korea photos at Library of Congress
View this rich collection of pre-1945 Korea photos now available at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs room. The images seem to come from a Japanese photographer, judging by the hand writing on the back of the images. While the collection has been recently catalogued at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010645655 the images have not been fully processed for routine viewing or online reference. So to seem them in person you must follow the special procedure there.
Those able to read the handwritten Japanese notes that appear on the back of many photos are particularly encouraged to give the meanings or reflect on the wider significance depicted.
There are three ways to engage these reference copy images:
A. Cursor rapidly through the 250 images (some duplicates; observe only; no Japanese) in this large file, http://bit.ly/loc-colonialkr-pdf [about 14mb, hosted on google docs]
B. View paired pages: obverse shows 4-6 pictures, reverse shows the Japanese writing penciled on
http://pre1945korea.blogspot.com (blog platform allows viewers to write identifying information)
Each entry gives the option to download the 2 page PDF set for easy printout, too.
[hosted on blogger.com]
http://pre1945korea.blogspot.com (blog platform allows viewers to write identifying information)
Each entry gives the option to download the 2 page PDF set for easy printout, too.
[hosted on blogger.com]
C. Bundle of all 27 paired (obverse/reverse) PDF sets in one file
http://tinyurl.com/bundle27pre1945kr
[about 14mb, hosted on sites.google.com]
http://tinyurl.com/bundle27pre1945kr
[about 14mb, hosted on sites.google.com]
2011/09/23
resources September 2011
via U.Colorado-Boulder newsletter:
Blogger in Japan. National Geographic's Digital Nomad touched down in Japan. Andrew Evans, the National Geographic Traveler's Contributing Editor and blogger who covers every corner of the world, landed in Japan for his three-week travel through the country. To follow his travel blogs, tweets, and videos, visit http://japantravelinfo.com/andrew/index.html.
"Japan" – includes a Google Earth tour
Blogger in Japan. National Geographic's Digital Nomad touched down in Japan. Andrew Evans, the National Geographic Traveler's Contributing Editor and blogger who covers every corner of the world, landed in Japan for his three-week travel through the country. To follow his travel blogs, tweets, and videos, visit http://japantravelinfo.com/andrew/index.html.
"Japan" – includes a Google Earth tour
2011/08/18
protest culture 2011 (movie set in the year 1963) 'Kokurikozaka kara'
cross-posting from H-JAPAN on August 17, 2011 by Peter Cave @manchester.ac.uk
Subject: The Supposedly Docile Japanese Public and 'Kokurikozaka kara'
As a coda to this interesting discussion on 'the supposedly docile Japanese public', last Saturday I went to see the latest Studio Ghibli film, 'Kokurikozaka kara'. An NHK Special programme about the making of this film a week or two ago described it as a story about first love. It is that, but it's a lot more. It's a fascinating tale about high school students at a private Yokohama high school in 1963, who engage in lively debates and engage in constructive opposition to plans to demolish a historical building where they hold their bungei-bu activities. The film portrays their behaviour in an entirely favourable way. I have no idea whether it bears any resemblance to the reality of high school students in the early 1960s, or whether it's more Miyazaki Hayao's ideal of what they should have been (or a mixture of the two) - this is the time between Anpo and the Gakusei Funso of the late 60s, of course, so perhaps 1963 allows Miyazaki to subtly associate the story with that period and yet not directly link it to its most controversial episodes. For me, the film had a strong resonance with the current protests and debate over nuclear power, the implicit messages being, 'Think for yourself!' 'Don't just accept what the authorities do!' and 'Take action!' ...
Subject: The Supposedly Docile Japanese Public and 'Kokurikozaka kara'
As a coda to this interesting discussion on 'the supposedly docile Japanese public', last Saturday I went to see the latest Studio Ghibli film, 'Kokurikozaka kara'. An NHK Special programme about the making of this film a week or two ago described it as a story about first love. It is that, but it's a lot more. It's a fascinating tale about high school students at a private Yokohama high school in 1963, who engage in lively debates and engage in constructive opposition to plans to demolish a historical building where they hold their bungei-bu activities. The film portrays their behaviour in an entirely favourable way. I have no idea whether it bears any resemblance to the reality of high school students in the early 1960s, or whether it's more Miyazaki Hayao's ideal of what they should have been (or a mixture of the two) - this is the time between Anpo and the Gakusei Funso of the late 60s, of course, so perhaps 1963 allows Miyazaki to subtly associate the story with that period and yet not directly link it to its most controversial episodes. For me, the film had a strong resonance with the current protests and debate over nuclear power, the implicit messages being, 'Think for yourself!' 'Don't just accept what the authorities do!' and 'Take action!' ...
2011/08/15
elementary school photo essay; Earthquake lessons
[via U. Colorado Teaching East Asia newsletter]
The Japan Forum. Yuta and Minami is a new webpage from the Japan Forum. It includes 43 annotated photos of the home life of two Japanese elementary students, Yuta and Minami Tanaka. Through these photos, students can see and learn about contemporary Japanese children's daily lives including meals, school life, and hobbies. For more information, visit www.tjf.or.jp/shogakusei/yutaandminami/index_en.html.
Great East Japan Earthquake Link. Launched by The Japan Forum, this link features teacher resources for Japanese language as well as social studies teachers. In many Japanese classes at elementary, junior high, and senior high schools around the world, students are currently undertaking fundraising and other activities to help victims of the quake and tsunami. In this blog, The Japan Forum shares messages and ideas received from teachers participating in such projects with their students. To view, click http://ameblo.jp/tjf2011/.
The Japan Forum. Yuta and Minami is a new webpage from the Japan Forum. It includes 43 annotated photos of the home life of two Japanese elementary students, Yuta and Minami Tanaka. Through these photos, students can see and learn about contemporary Japanese children's daily lives including meals, school life, and hobbies. For more information, visit www.tjf.or.jp/shogakusei/yutaandminami/index_en.html.
Great East Japan Earthquake Link. Launched by The Japan Forum, this link features teacher resources for Japanese language as well as social studies teachers. In many Japanese classes at elementary, junior high, and senior high schools around the world, students are currently undertaking fundraising and other activities to help victims of the quake and tsunami. In this blog, The Japan Forum shares messages and ideas received from teachers participating in such projects with their students. To view, click http://ameblo.jp/tjf2011/.
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