Japan Cuts Japan Society is back, fully in person for the first time since 2019. The best way to catch up on the wide breadth of Japanese cinema today! #JAPANCUTS2023

🎉 What to find in your check-in envelope: 📚 Conference programme to guide you through the event 🔖 Lanyard to display your badge 💫 Sticker featuring our conference logo 🎃 A "Kernöl-Drop" (pumpkinseed oil, Styria's regional speciality!) 🚋 Public transport ticket #DH2023

JNTO stats: est. no. international travelers to Japan in 5/23 was 1,898,900, +1,191.4% (!) from 5/22. JTB Tourism Research & Consulting Co. #Japan #Travel tourism.jp/en/tourism-dat…

Happy #ToriiTuesday! I'm ded tired from touring a big group of students around Japan, but still wanted to post a lil something. Here's a bonus PLASTIC #torii I left out last week. I present #LEGO TORII! ⛩️🏰 You'll see this gate design in many parks' #Ninjago area (NY/CA/🇩🇪). 🧵

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Much of Tokyo burned in fires after the quake, but Ueno park's famous Saigo Takamori statue survived. This image from NHK shows how people turned it into a missing persons notice board:

1923年に発生した #関東大震災 からきょうで100年 江戸・東京を繰り返し襲った災害を振り返るため、「1855年安政江戸地震」などの災害記録を収集した「江戸・安政災害キュレーション」を公開しました。 codh.rois.ac.jp/ansei-disaster/ 画像出典：浅草寺大塔解譯（東京大学地震研究所）

The first trailer for Toho’s ‘GODZILLA MINUS ONE’ has been released. In theaters on December 1.

NYC 9/15 and 9/17, Yoneo Ota from the Toy Film Museum/おもちゃ映画ミュージアム @info51596118 and Joanne Bernardi will be at Columbia University University to discuss/screen "The 2nd Sino-Japanese War in Toy Films" (various genres/gauges of recuperated film) #Japan #japanese #Cinema

‘The Boy and the Heron’ hype ramps up ahead of English release japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/0…

Thanks to DO contributors over the years - posts have been a great resource and a source of encouragement for me!

Please consider joining us in MLC's Japanese Program at the University of Rochester! A 3-year VAP position, with opportunities to link to vibrant interdisciplinary programs/Depts. in Arts & Sciences jobs.chronicle.com/job/37631365/v…

Studio Ghibli receives honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 【Videos】 soranews24.com/2024/05/21/stu… via SoraNews24

Grateful for this venue to get conversations started on practical DH approaches in the classroom

Help subsidize the Toy Film Museum's move to and renovation of its new location in Nishijin, Kyoto!「クラウドファンディングCAMPFIRE camp-fire.jp/projects/81161… #クラウドファンディングCAMPFIRE via CAMPFIRE（キャンプファイヤー）国内最大級のクラウドファンディング

Over on the blue butterfly there are reports of National Parks Service websites dropping like flies: the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II in DC, the 1979 Rally for the National March for Gay and Lesbian Rights, First White House Gay Rights Picket, etc.

Ishinomaki, Japan, reborn. In memory of 3.11.11

Can you learn about Japan’s history & culture from pamphlets? Sheet music? Postcards? 🏣 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Joanne Bernardi (Joanne Bernardi, University of Rochester) to discover the fascinating modern Japanese ephemera her Re-Envisioning Japan project explores! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/news/…

Watch “Film as Object 2025 Final Workshop” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/1083227932. Another year, another final film. Thanks to EastmanMuseum Moving Image Dept faculty who make the course possible! #filmasobject #foundfootage #funwithfilm #filmforever