<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Thanks for posting this, Aaron. That decision has been brewing for a long tme in Kawasaki, and one additional factor has been that one of the city's recent policies and one of the conditions for the company that will run the museum soon is that the Museum needs to focus exclusively on Kawasaki-related materials. There has already been pressure to clear the archives of materials and collections that aren't "relevant to Kawakasaki City." Considering some of the treasures stored there – and the important role the museum has played - this is really tragic and worrying.</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 13. Januar 2017 um 20:51 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan" <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu><br/>
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<div class="_1mj _1mf"><span>On her Facebook timeline, </span><span class="_5u8u">Atsuko Morimune</span><span> reports on one example of how the waves of neoliberalism are starting to ruin Japanese culture too. As of April, the Kawasaki City Museum will be run by a for-profit company. For us film fans, this means the end of the Kawasaki Cinematheque, which has run wonderful weekly retrospective screenings for nearly 30 years (it's one of the first places I went to see old movies in Japan back in 1989). They may have occasional screenings after this, but that's all up to the company which will now run the entire museum as a for-profit venture. The Museum houses not only many works of art, but also one of the best manga collections in the world and very important film-related materials. When asked on her timeline what will happen to the priceless Ushiyama Jun'ichi collection (centered on one of the giants of TV documentary) and other film materials, Morimune said they will probably just gather dust in the vaults.</span></div>
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Yale University<br/>
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