SPRING On Sunday 5 July at 4pm Sulejman and the Japanese crew will screen Boy A. Click here for the English trailer.This event is primarily in Japanese (see below) but there will be some interpreting for Non-Japanese speakers if required. On Sunday 12 July at 4pm the English language event sees special guest film maker Yumiko Hayakawa present her documentary "Brian & Co. … [Read more...] about Tokyo Spring Events in July
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Commercial Appetite and Human Need: The Accidental and Fated Revival of Kobayashi Takiji’s Cannery Ship
Norma Field Japan's best-known proletarian novel, Kani Kosen (depicting conditions aboard a crab-canning factory ship operating off Soviet waters)[2] [1] by Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), enjoyed an utterly unanticipated revival in the course of 2008. Many attribute the revival of the novel to the deepening impoverishment of the ranks of the irregularly employed, now … [Read more...] about Commercial Appetite and Human Need: The Accidental and Fated Revival of Kobayashi Takiji’s Cannery Ship
Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and Inter-national Conflicts (Japan Focus)
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/3173 Yoshiko NOZAKI and Mark Selden Japan’s neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century.1 Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese … [Read more...] about Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and Inter-national Conflicts (Japan Focus)
Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children (Japan Focus)
Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children David McNeill, Matsutani Minoru, Alex Martin, Kamiya Setsuko, and Hongo Jun Introduction Two decades ago, as Japan’s economic engine hurtled along at full throttle, the Justice Ministry announced a policy that seemed to signal an end to its attempt to keep the world at … [Read more...] about Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children (Japan Focus)
U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues (Japan Focus)
U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issueshttp://www.japanfocus.org/-Lawrence-Repeta/3147Lawrence RepetaIntroductionHow can Japan move toward gender equality, the elimination of authoritarian police practices and realization of the human rights enshrined in its laws and treaty obligations? Many Japanese human rights lawyers … [Read more...] about U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues (Japan Focus)