Information re donation of English Books on Japan

[Marty Gross]

The reason that Donald Richie's books are not included this time is 
that he himself was part of the selection committee. With his usual 
discretion, he did not offer his own books for consideration.

It is my understanding that, if this project is successful, more 
books will be considered. We certainly hope to see Donald's books 
included in the next round.

Marty Gross






>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
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------
>>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/index.htm-------------------------------
>>-------------


-- 
Marty Gross Film Productions Inc.
637 Davenport Road
Toronto, Canada M5R 1L3
tel: + 416 536 3355, Fax: + 416 535 0583
marty at martygrossfilms.com
http://www.martygrossfilms.com