JFNY & CGP NEWSLETTER | September 16, 2021 |
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JFF Plus, the Japan Foundation's online platform dedicated to Japanese cinema, published a new article on Godzilla. Since its creation in 1954, Godzilla has been well loved not only in Japan, but all over the world. Veteran kaiju illustrator Yuji Kaida and legendary animator Eiji Yamamori discuss the enduring fascination with this iconic kaiju monster.
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We have been presenting an array of online programs. Did you miss a webinar you wanted to see? All programs are archived and available to view. Visit our YouTube channel or website to explore our video content.
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The Japan Foundation, New York seeks an Associate Program Officer for the Japanese Studies team. Through Japanese Studies grant programs, JFNY aims to support and enhance the academic study of Japan at universities, colleges, and various institutions in the United States. For details, please click here.
Application deadline: September 24, 2021, 23:59 PM EDT
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On view through October 31
Upcountry History Museum (Greenville, SC)
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Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams consists of fifty photographs taken by famed Western landscape photographer Ansel Adams of the Manzanar Relocation Center between 1943 and 1944. The Manzanar Relocation Center, located 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles, opened in March 1942 and operated through November 1945 as a confinement site for more than 11,070 Japanese Americans. During the camp’s operation, four leading American photographers – Ansel Adams, Clem Albers, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake – documented the physical, cultural, and psychological conditions of camp life. Crafted from different angles, their combined work reveals the complex human responses to internment and its obvious social injustices. This exhibition is supported through the CGP Education Grant for Grassroots Exchange & Education.
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September 18, 7pm CDT
Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago, IL)
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The Japanese Arts Foundation will have a Tsukimi: Moon Viewing event in the historical Garden of the Phoenix in Chicago’s Jackson Park on September 18. This event will be a great opportunity to introduce guests to the Garden of the Phoenix and experience educational events such as discussion on the arts and culture as well as performances such as taiko, shamisen, and tea ceremony. It will be an in-person event, limiting capacity. A recording of the event will be shared across social media platforms. This event is supported through the CGP Education Grant for Grassroots Exchange & Education.
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September 22 - November 27
Artists Space (New York, NY)
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Artists Space will present Social Muscle Rehab, an exhibition of new work by Ei Arakawa. In his first American solo institutional exhibition, Arakawa locates two specific nodes of exploration, the first is the erection of ad-hoc outdoor dining corrals throughout New York City as a means of maintaining sociability through the pandemic which Arakawa and his collaborator Gela Patashuri interlace with a circulatory system of ocean water transported from his hometown of Fukushima, Japan. The second is the mediated world of professional tennis as particularly evident in the complex public image of its most visible star Naomi Osaka. This exhibition is supported through the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
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September 23, 6am EDT (7pm JST)
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What are the significant characteristics of recent Japanese prime ministers and how has Japan changed under their respective administrations? Tobias Harris, author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, will shed some light on these questions as he gives an introductory overview of Japan’s political leaders. Harris is a member of the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. This webinar is part of the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies’ Getting to Know Japan Series, which is supported through the CGP Salary Assistant Grant for U.S.-Japan Community Grassroots Exchange Program.
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September 24, 4pm EDT
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden (North Salem, NY)
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Sixty years after its opening in 1961, the Hammond Garden is undertaking a 2021 Hammond Japanese Stroll Garden Revitalization Project. On September 24, the Hammond Garden will showcase its history and progress in an evening symposium. This symposium is intended for the general public, as well as Japanese garden enthusiasts and professionals. This project is supported through the CGP Japanese Gardens Microgrant program.
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September 27, 9pm EDT (September 28, 10am JST)
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What do anti-communist sound trucks, anti-imperial anarchists, anti-war teenagers, and anti-racist countermovements have in common? In this talk, Dr. Nathaniel Smith will discuss the post-WWII history and contemporary status of several activist movements in Japan, based in part on his fieldwork since 2005 into the Japanese far right. Dr. Smith is a former Japan Foundation Fellow and a member of the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. This webinar is part of the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies’ Getting to Know Japan Series, which is supported through the CGP Salary Assistant Grant for U.S.-Japan Community Grassroots Exchange Program.
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For inquiries, please contact: info@jfny.org |
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Photo credits:
© Yuji Kaida
Ei Arakawa, Collage for Performance People Rehab, 2021.
The Hammond Museum’s Japanese Stroll Garden in a New Era. Photo by Martin Hara.
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