Zipangu & doc film

[Mark Anderson]

Dear Anne,
    This is interesting. I wonder how much more of this there is... mark
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From: "anne mcknight" <akmck at earthlink.net>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:33 PM
Subject: Zipangu & doc film


> I think there's a film connection here, too, if 
> memory serves correctly.  I think one of the 
> Zipangu collective (who seem to enunciate solely 
> under that name, without individual 
> spokesperson), is the doc. film-maker Kurihara 
> Nanako.  She made a 1993 doc. on second-wave-
> ish Japanese feminism called Ripples of 
> Change, also during the Japan-bashing years, 
> distributed by Women Make Movies.  It too relies 
> on the US-Japan dialectic for illustrating the 
> author's self-discovery, enabled by leaving Japan 
> in favor of New York, but is more a 'personal is 
> political' kind of film essay.  Certainly more 
> palatable than the insufferable first-person 
> testimonials of Kristof being disappointed with the 
> lived experience of 90s Japan!  Although I have to 
> say that this disenchantment with the postwar's 
> most favored nation is playing out interestingly in 
> media coverage of other geo-politics, most 
> notably the NYX coverage of the middle east, its 
> least-favored territory.  
> 
> Anne
> 
> on 1/8/02 10:55 PM, Roddey Reid at 
> rreid at ucsd.edu wrote:
> 
> Readers of this list may be interested in a 
> Japanese/English publication that appeared in 
> September 1998 titled Warawareru nihonjin/ 
> Japan: Made in USA. It contained articles by 
> Japanese and American journalists and scholars 
> dissecting the NYT long-standing reportorial 
> pratices with respect to Japan. There is even reply 
> by the notorious Nicolas De Kristof. Published by 
> Zipangu (IBN4-8123-0615-9), it was released at a 
> special colloquium organized by the International 
> House in Tokyo.
> 
> Roddey Reid
> 
> on 1/8/02 10:55 PM, Roddey Reid at 
> rreid at ucsd.edu wrote:
> 
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