Japan
Special Japanese Film ScreeningFireworks (Hana-Bi)Directed by Kitano Takeshi (1998, 35 mm, 103 min.) Hana-bi is the winner of Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1997, and features Takeshi Kitano as an ex-cop, whose guilt toward his deceased partner drives him to launch a ruthless revenge at yakuza. Hana-bi juxtaposes minimalist aesthetics with extreme violence, and is one of the most accomplished works by Kitano.
As a source of identity and component of selfhood, concepts of “race” and their manipulation through racial representation exert a powerful influence on constructions of Self and Other, national identity, the nature of interpersonal experiences in cross-cultural contexts, and how those experiences are verbalized, interpreted and translated into various kinds of social performance. Increasingly, globalized discourses and iconographies of “blackness” have come to mediate a space through which Western notions of “race” are circulated, re-inscribed re-presented and reproduced abroad, and deployed...
Marie Anchordoguy will talk about the arguments in her recent book, Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism. The book explores the nature of Japan’s capitalist system and how this system has contributed to both the rise and the stagnation of Japan’s high tech sector. The book argues that Japan’s capitalist system is communitarian in nature. By communitarian capitalism, she means a quasi-socialist system with an activist state that works together with the private sector to nurture economic development but also promote social stability, equitable treatment of...
Join the members of the Japanese ensemble Tokyo Chigakukai for a lecture demonstration on the koto and learn to play yourself! For More Information http://tokyochigakukai.com/
The Tokyo Chigakukai 2006 East Coast Tour is New England’s first introduction to the music of the Kikusuji style of jiuta-sokyoku, classical Japanese music for voice, koto, kokyu and shamisen. Repertoire for the tour will span music from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and highlight the intimate connection of jiuta-sokyoku and the development of Japanese literature. In addition to formal concerts, the Tokyo Chigakukai will present a workshop earlier in the afternoon for students in music and East Asian studies.Concert highlights include a performance of koto kumiuta, the first...
Japan’s monastic warriors have fared poorly in comparison to the samurai, both in terms of historical reputation and representations in popular culture. Often maligned and criticized for their involvement in politics and other secular matters, they have been seen as a coherent group of fighters known as sōhei (monk-warriors) separate from the larger military class. However, a closer examination of late Heian (794-1185) and Kamakura (1185-1333) sources reveals that these groups have a common ancestry, identical social and political origins, and were equally skilled in the warfare techniques of...
This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into three thematically-organized programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 years. All 16mm films are in Japanese* The Song of Stones (Toshio Matsumoto, 1963, 30 minutes) At Yukigaya 2 (Mako...
Among prehistoric archaeologists, the Jomon culture (ca. 14,000 -500 BC) of the Japanese archipelago has been cited as an example of so-called “affluent” or “complex” hunter-gatherer cultures. In particular, the Middle Jomon culture (ca. 3000-2000 BC) in Eastern Japan is known for the presence of large settlements, large shell-middens, sophistication of material culture and long-distance trade. Focusing on archaeological data from the Sannai Maruyama site (the Early-Middle Jomon periods), this presentation demonstrates how the rich Jomon data can contribute to our understanding of the...
This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into three thematically-organized programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 years.X (Batsu, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Toru Takemitsu (1960, 15 minutes) Musashino (Yoiichi Takabayshi, 1963, 15...
Compared to the popular and business U.S. press, the Japanese popular press tends to be more pessimistic about the Chinese economy. This Japanese attitude and perception about the Chinese economy can be observed in recent Japanese Manga (comic strip). In the talk, Professor Deckle will briefly trace the recent history of the Japanese economy as observed in the Japanese Manga. He will also assess the realism of this pessimistic Japanese popular perception of the Chinese economy.
This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into three thematically-organized programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 years. Berlin im Winter (Ichiro Sueoka, 2003, 7 minutes) Endlish ist es Fruehling (Ichiro Sueoka, 2003, 2 minutes...
Workshop for undergraduate and graduate studentsPart of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
Lecture by Donald Richie followed by a screening of Mr. Richie’s experimental films at 8:00 PM.Lecture to take place in Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, followed by screening in Room 101, Linsly Chittenden Hall (63 High St.)Part of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
Part of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
35mm screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (1949) introduced by Donald Richie. Screening followed by panel discussion with Donald Richie and faculty from EALL, Film Studies, and History. Part of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
During the sixth century Buddhists in Shandong province carved massive transcriptions of sutras and names of deities on the slopes of mountains. This lecture explores the significance of these carvings and seeks to argue that the vast scale of the writing embodied concepts central to Buddhist thought.
The Council is pleased to present the Eighth Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies.
This paper examines major Japanese lesbian critical writing of the 1980s and 1990s, with particular emphasis on the work of Kakefuda Hiroko, the most significant lesbian writer in Japan. It focuses on three recurring themes in this body of writing ”the lesbian image in heterosexual Japanese pornography, the exclusions of straight feminism, and the non-possibility of alliance with gay men. It then takes up the question of sexual and social autonomy (shutaisei) and the role of privacy in lesbian narratives of resistance. It concludes with a discussion of recent developments in Japanese lesbian...
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Taiyo o nusunda otoko) Directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko, 1979 (16mm, 147 min., English Subtitles)A lonely teacher builds a Bomb and takes on the State in a superb thriller. Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information ...
The Project on Japan-U.S. Relations serves as a link between the Yale University community and organizations concerned with ties between Japan and the U.S. The Project works to bring speakers from the academic, policy, and business worlds to Yale, where they can interact with faculty and students. The Project also serves as a Yale point-of-contact for outside groups connected with Japan and as a clearinghouse of Japan and Japan-U.S. related information for the University community. In addition to maintaining the web site http://www.yale.edu/japanus...
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