Fwd: Information re donation of English Books on Japan

[Aaron Gerow]

I forward this less to inform people about the project but to note  
how one institution is defining the field of knowledge about Japan.  
You can take a look at their 100 books and see that there are two  
film books: Mark's Contemporary Japanese Film and Tom and Jasper's  
Midnight Eye  Guide to New Japanese Film. Great news to them, but as  
with all such "canons" it is interesting to ask why these books and  
not others (or why not more film books?). Nothing by Richie or on  
famous directors like Kurosawa or Ozu.

Just a thought.

Aaron

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> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:31:04 -0400
> From: "Tokiko Y. Bazzell" <tokiko at hawaii.edu>
> Subject: Information re donation of English Books on Japan
>
> FYI,
>
> The Nippon Foundation is now ready to donate English books on Japan to
> 200-300 North American institutions as their "100 Books for  
> Understanding
> Contemporary
> Japan" project. Should you be interested, please see the detail
> information below.
>
> http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/news/ 
> 20090514BookDonationProject.html
>
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> Tokiko Y. Bazzell, Japan Specialist Librarian
> University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
> Asia Collection Dept.
> 2550 McCarthy Mall
> Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 U.S.A.
> Email:tokiko at hawaii.edu
> PH: 808-956-2315 : FX: 808-956-5968
> http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/ 
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