Japanese

{ items: [ { label: 'JA 004', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Mizutani, Osamu and Mizutani, Nobuko', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Beginning level, suitable for independant study. Introduction to written and conversational Japanese, covers both formal and casual useage. Each lesson consists of a dialogue, explaination, drills, reading comprehension, aural comprehension, pronunciation, and writing practice.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Japan Times, 1977.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'INTRODUCTION TO MODERN JAPANESE, AN', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 005', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Japan Foundation', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Transcripts and teacher\'s manuals available [Book I covers episodes 1-13, Book 2 covers episodes 14-26.] Developed for teaching Japanese as a foreign language. The 26 skits on the video deal with the life of an Australian architect living in Japan. The grammar is controlled, but the conversation speed is almost natural. Cassettes of audio track are also available.', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape', 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Part I-1983 Part II - 1992.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'YAN-SAN TO NIHON NO HITOBITO', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'E. 1-13, 6" E. 14-26, 9"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 007', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Tokyo Broadcasting System', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Transcription and text available. On the last day of his career, a retired newspaper reporter happens to meet a young taxi driver who has gotten his driver\'s license taken by the police.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 1981.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CHOTTO II FUFU (A Nice Couple)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 009', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chubu Nippon Hoosoo', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Transcription and text are available. A high school girl falls in love with her history teacher. Her English teacher, who is her Go mate, advises her to wait for another three years to see if her feeling toward him is genuine.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 1980.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'SAN-NEN TATTE, KOI (Love after Three Years)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 010', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Films'], author_or_director: 'PDS - Fiju TV', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A career woman struggles between her job and her family problems after her husband is transferred to Hokkaido.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan Foundation, 1979.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'ONNA GA SHOKUBA O SARU HI (The Day when a Woman Leaves her Job)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 012', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews'], author_or_director: 'Nippon Hoosoo Kyookai', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A weekly news program. Topics include "Bon vacation", "Typhoon", "New 10,000 note" and "High School Basketball Tournament".', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan Foundation, 1982.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NIPPON HOOSOO KYOOKAI SHUUKAN NEWS (NHK Weekly News)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '30"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 013', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Takagi, K.', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Consists of 20 lessons reviewing basic Japanese grammar. Each lesson contains one or two dialogues followed by pattern drills. The dialogues are relatively fast.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Tokyo, 1980.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BASIC JAPANESE - A REVIEW TEXT', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 014', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Ujie, Kenichi', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Five videos. Each contains two skits based on the experiences of American students in Japan to highlight the differences between Japanese and American culture, lifestyles, and customs in everyday life. Vol 1: "We don\'t have much to offer you, but help yourself." & "Where are the bathroom slippers?". Vol 2: "This is only a small gift, but please accept it." & "Would you like to go for a ride?". Vol 3: "How are you suzuki-sensei?" & "You speak Japanese so well." Vol 4: "How do you do? My name is Jane. Nice to meet you." & "You drink a lot don\'t you?" Vol 5: "This is the homework due yesterday." & "Japan is interesting isn\'t it?"', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Ken\'ichi Ujie / Tokyo Shoseki, Tokyo, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SAFE AND SOUND IN JAPAN, VOL 1-5', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Each tape 15-20"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 015', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Mizutani, Nobuko', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Each lesson consists of text or essay in Japanese followed by dialogues, structure practice and conversation practice.Lessons 1-12.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Bonjinsha, Tokyo, 1987.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE: AN INTEGRATED COURSE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 016', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'NHK', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'NHK news coverage of the Royal Wedding that took place June 9, 1993.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'SCOLA broadcast, 1993.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ROYAL WEDDING, JUNE 9, 1993', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '49"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 017', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Graham, Tomoko', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Four short exercises for recognizing and writing basic phonetic symbols.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT Language Lab, 11/88.', submitted_by: 'Graham', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'KANA EXERCISES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 018', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Pronunciation exercises for Katakana and Hiragana, recorded by MIT Japanese instructors to accompany beginning Japanese class work.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded in LLARC, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'KATAKANA AND HIRAGANA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 019', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Music', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Videos of everyday life in Japan. Tape 1: The Family Life of a "Salaryman". Tape 2: Homestay. Tape 3: University Students.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NHK International and The Japan Foundation, Tokoyo, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Graham', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WAY OF LIFE IN JAPAN, THE - English ver.', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '20" each', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 020', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Music', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Videos of everyday life in Japan. Tape 1: The Family Life of a "Salaryman". Tape 2: Homestay. Tape 3: University Students.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NHK International and The Japan Foundation, Tokoyo, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Graham', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WAY OF LIFE IN JAPAN, THE - Japanese ver.', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '20" each', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 021', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Practice tapes for reading texts, recorded by MIT Japanese instructors to accompany advanced Japanese class work.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded at LLARC, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ADVANCED JAPANESE I: TEXT READING', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 022', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Practice tapes for learning sentence patterns, recorded by MIT Japanese instructors to accompany advanced Japanese class work.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded at LLARC, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ADVANCED JAPANESE I: SENTENCE PATTERNS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 023', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Miyagawa, Shigeru', c_copies_in_stock: '6', description: 'User instruction sheet available. An interactive novel/documentary about Japan. First published 1996.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '6', publication_info: 'Copyright M.I.T., 1999', submitted_by: 'Miyagawa', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'STAR FESTIVAL, v. 1.1', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 026', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Higurashi, Yoshiko', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons include conversations, vocabulary, Kanji, and exercises in comprehension. Stress is placed on students being able to express themselves in Japanese and to understand the Japanese culture as they may encounter it.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Bonjinsha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Miyagawa', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CURRENT JAPANESE - INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 027', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Ujie, Kenichi', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Seven videotapes with skits of real-life situations ranging in length from 30 seconds to 1 minute. Contents descriptions are with tape and copy is in the script file. Structural drills are based upon the skits. Tape 1: Passive. Tape 2: Causatives. Tape 3: Expressions of Time-1. Tape 4: Expressions of Time-2. Tape 5: Honorifics. Tape 6: Use of Honorific Language. Tape 7: Basic verbs.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tokyo Shoseki, Tokyo, 1990.', submitted_by: 'Graham', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'NIHONGO Volume 1-7', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Each video 15"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 028', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Alvarez, Louis and Kolker, Andrew', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Video on Japanese culture for English audiences. An exploration of how things adpoted from Western cultures are changed within Japanese society, to reflect their own culture. This video presents a series of close-up scenes in order to present a side of Japanese culture that has not been widely seen abroad.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Center for New American Media, [1991?]', submitted_by: 'Miyagawa', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'JAPANESE VERSION, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '56"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 030', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'The Eavesdropping sections of Japanese the Spoken Language from Lessons 13-17, recorded by M.I.T. faculty.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded at M.I.T., 1996.', submitted_by: 'Graham', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JAPANESE THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE - EAVESDROPPING', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 031', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A teacher\'s guide is available in script file. A series of 5 videotapes on life in Japan. Based on the book Nippon The Land and Its People and produced by Shin-EL INC.Tape 1 - The Japanese Family (35")Tape 2 - Japan\'s Corporate System (29")Tape 3 - Customs and Manners (29")Tape 4 - Education in Japan (29")Tape 5 - The Japanese Businessman (25")', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NCS Video J/V, 1989.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'JAPAN: THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '', video_subtitles: 'English narration, Japanese dialouge with some English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 032', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Nippon Animation Co.', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The end of World War II is approaching. A platoon of Japanese soldiers is struggling through the mountains of Burma when notification of the war\'s end and of Japan\'s surrender is received. But high up on Triangle mountain the news is treated with disbelief and the fighting continues. Private Mizushima is sent to persuade the soldiers to stop fighting. The platoon is sent to a concentration camp and later receives word of Mizushima\'s death. But could he have possibly survived?', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Central Pard Media, NY, 1994, original version Nippon Animation, 1986.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HARP OF BURMA, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '52"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English subtitles' } , { label: 'JA 033', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Soseki, Natsume', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Botchan, a recent graduate, sets out for his first teaching assignment, never anticipating what awaits him. He must contend with students who spy on him and pull nasty stunts and with a landlord who tries to sell him worthless antiques. Botchan begins to suspect Hotta, his one friend in the village, but yet more discoveries await Botchan. Hotta and Botchan must team up to uncover the scandalous game.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Central Pard Media, NY, 1994, original version Nippon Animation, 1986.', submitted_by: 'Aikawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BOTCHAN', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '52"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English subtitles' } , { label: 'JA 035', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Literature'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Two multimedia cd-roms (Vol. 1 & 2) that introduce the 54 chapters of The Tale of Genji through picture scroll reproductions, photographs, illustrations, and narration. Particularly famous scenes from the text are read aloud in the original classical Japanese with a translation into modern Japanese provided as well. A wide variety of additional materials include background on Japanese life and culture, a virtual reality tour of Genji\'s villa, a Genji picture scroll, tours of notable locations, and information on festivals and ceremonies.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Fujitsu Social Science Lab, Kawasaki, Japan, 1996.', submitted_by: 'Miyagawa', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TALE OF GENJI, THE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 036', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kobayashi, Masaki', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Four supernatural tales: "Black Hair", "The Woman of the Snow", "Hoichi, the Earless", and "In a Cup of Tea". Combining stunning visual effects with an arresting musical score, the storyteller, Kobayashi, has created an engrossing masterpeice in which terror thrives and demons lurk.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Toho Co, Japan, 1965', submitted_by: 'Teng', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'KWAIDAN', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 037', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Suo, Masayuki', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A middle-aged workaholic signs up for a ballroom dance class - just to meet the sexy dance teacher. But he ends up with a different instructor and her colorfully eccentric class of beginners. Now he must keep his new secret passion from his family and friends.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Daiei NTV, 1996.', submitted_by: 'Ikei', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHALL WE DANSU? (Shall We Dance?)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '119"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 038', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Oregon Public Broadcasting', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This comparison between Japanese and American educational systems examines both the differences in goals between the two and the different ways in which they seek to achieve the same goal. This documentary explores efforts in both countries to balance creativity and discipline in education.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Films for the Humanities, Princeton, NJ, 1994', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '55"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 039', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'BBC Worldwide', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This program looks at the different ways Japanese people live, and what the future holds for the next generation. A typical expensive high-rise apartment is compared with projects designed to provide cheaper housing and relieve city over-crowding. A young family on a remote island discusses the advantages and disadvantages of their chosen lifestyle. At a modern leisure complex, a young woman compares her lifestyle with that of her more traditional parents.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Films for the Humanities, Princeton, NJ, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHANGING LIFESTYLES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '20"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 040', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'BBC', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This CD-ROM investigates the crucial issues facing Japan in this century. The program\'s seven major topics - Perceptions of Japan, Physical Geography, Transportation, Energy, Industry, Agriculture, and City Life - provide access to a wide variety of data which can also be accessed by visiting six contrasting localities. A visit to the "newsroom" allows students to produce actual news stories using the data, graphics, and 35 minutes of video footage.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'BBC Worldwide, 1997.', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JAPAN 2000', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'JA 041', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Mori, Junichi', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A woman drops off a dress for cleaning at a laundromat, and when she gets it back, she feels as though her soul has been cleansed as well. Love ensues. REGION 3 DVD - use multiregion player.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Laundry Partners, 2001', submitted_by: 'I. Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LAUNDRY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '127"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English and Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 042', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Goldberg, Michael', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Japanese women now account for half of the work force. This video shows their roles both at home and at work. You will see office staff in their 20\'s and housewives in their 40\'s reentering the work force. The camera takes you into the everyday life and consciousness of these women to give us a deeper understanding of the Japanese female in modern day society.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NCS Video J/V, 1991', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'WORKING WOMEN: PERSONAL & SOCIAL GOALS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '28"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 043', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Harima, Akira', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A look at two urban households with school-age children gives insight into the Japanese education system which relies heavily on test scores to rank students and their aptitude. You will see how Japanese students get through exam hell. Interviews with students and their family memebers reveal not only their mentality, hopes and fears for the future, but also the frustration that this competitive system has bred.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NCS Video J/V, 1991', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'EDUCATION IN JAPAN: CHILDREN AND THEIR DREAMS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '28"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 044', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Nakamura, Ken', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This video gives lucid examples of Japan\'s traditional technologies and high-tech fields, and approaches the very essence of the way in which the development of Japanese technology has been influenced by the fastidious Japanese character, the sense of shame, the flexibility for adopting everything, the predilection for groups, and the uniform education level.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NCS Video J/V, 1989', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'JAPANESE TECHNOLOGY: A TRADITION OF CRAFTSMANSHIP', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '23"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 045', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Japanese society has evolved many customs and manners which help smooth relations between people. This video introduces aspects of life and work in Japan such as bowing, hanko, business meetings, footwear, tatami, table manners, etc. These subjects are covered in a documentary style with a touch of humor.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'NCS Video J/V, 1990', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'CUSTOMS AND MANNERS: THE FABRIC OF JAPANESE SOCIETY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '27"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 046', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Suffering from a condition that allows private thoughts to be audible to anyone within a 10-metre radius, seven ‘Transparents’ are sequestered across Japan. Unaware of their condition, the Transparents are monitored and protected by the government’s Bureau of Transparent Protection.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan, 2001', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: '', title: 'SATORARE (Transparent)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '129"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 047', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Mike, Takashi', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A quirky black comedy. The Katakuris family dreams of opening a country inn. Despite their best efforts, their guests all have the unfortunate habit of turning up dead in the morning.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Shochiku Co, 2001', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'KATAKURI-KE NO KOUFUKU (Happiness of the Katakuris)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '113"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 048', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Mitani, Koki', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An exuberant and constantly suprising backstage farce. As they are about to go on the air, the tempermental star of a radio play demands certain "small" changes to their soapy script. The co-stars all weigh in with increasingly arbitrary demands, transforming a romance into an ersatz American gangster drama cum disaster epic.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Fuji Television Network, 1998', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'RAJIO NO JIKAN (Welcome Back Mr. McDonald)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '103"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 049', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Koreeda, Hirokazu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note asking her 12-year-old boy to look after his younger siblings. And so begins the children\'s odyssey, a journey nobody knows.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan, 2004', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DARE MO SHIRANAI (Nobody Knows)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '141"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with Japanese or English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 050', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yaguchi, Shinobu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A group of girls stuck in remedial summer math class decide to ditch their boring teacher to deliver lunches to the school brass band. But the girls\' extreme laziness causes the lunches to spoil, and soon nearly the entire band gets sick. The one remaining member is Takuo, who recruits the girls into the band, even though their musical talents are entirely in question. But there\'s a catch: nobody knows how to play a wind or brass instrument, much to the dismay of Takuo, who proposes that the girls play swing band jazz - and take their act all the way to a battle-of-the-bands finale! Will the girls find a way to swing like tested jazz musicians, or will they discover that maybe math isn\'t so bad?', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Toei Video, 2004', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SWING GIRLS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 051', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ishii, Katsuhito', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A quirky, touching tale of a young girl and her outwardly normal family. In reality, Mom is a former Manga artist desperate to return to the job, Dad is a hypo-therapist who\'s not beyond practicing on the family, her Brother has reached the hormonal boiling point, and Grandpa has taken a vacation from reality. The film is loaded with fantasy elements, the manifestations of our character\'s inner thoughts, including the little girl\'s giant alter ego that pesters her at the worst possible times.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Grasshoppa Films, Japan, 2003', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHA NO AJI (The Taste of Tea)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '143"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 052', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Lee, Toshio', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A middle-aged professional wrestler who lost his wife recently returns to Osaka, his home town, with his son Kazuo. However, Kazuo hates not only wrlestling, but his father who couldn\'t be at the death bed of his mother.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Japan, 2004', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'OTOUSAN NO BAKKU DOROPPU (Backdrop del mio Papa)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '98"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 053', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Morita, Yoshimitsu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Spring in 1909, Daisuke Nagai, the second son of a businessman is a would-be thinker living on his father\'s expense. He was secretly in love with Michiyo in his college days, but gave up marrying her with chivalrousness as he learned his classmate was very in love with her. "We will go back in time." But it isn\'t that easy.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Toei Co, 1985', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SOREKARA (And Then)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '130"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with optional English or Japanese subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 054', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Koreeda, Hirokazu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given 3 days to choose one cherished memory from their life that they will have for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life\'t worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'TV Man Union, Engine Film Inc, 1998', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WANDAFURU RAIFU (After Life)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '118"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 055', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Iwai, Shunji', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Yuichi is in 8th grade and worships Lily Chou-Chou whose music is the perfect tool to escape the pain and anxiety that fills his brutal life. Yuichi finds solace as the moderator of the online chatroom dedicated to Lily, but little by little, the reality of his off-line life becomes unbearable when he is ensnared in a nightmare of teenage prostitution, petty theft, and violence.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Lily Chou-Chou Partners, 2001', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'RIRI SHUSHU NO SUBETE (All About Lily Chou-Chou)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '146"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 025', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Jorden, Eleanor and Noda, Mari', c_copies_in_stock: '11424324', description: 'For Part 1, cd-rom user\'s guide and cd-roms are available. For Part 1 & 2, digitized audio and video files on the computer. Audiotapes and texts to accompany L. 1-30. Three videotapes provide enactments of the core conversations in each lesson. Video 1: Lessons 1-12. Video 2: Lessons 13-24. Video 3: Lessons 25-30. The 2 cd-roms that accompany Part 1 of the JSL series include the core conversations, illustrations and animations, record capabilities, sound files, etc.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape', 'Cassette', 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: 'Tape 1 - 14 copies; Tape 2 - 4 copies; Tape 3 - 2 copies; PC cd-roms 4', publication_info: 'Jorden & Noda, 1986. CD-ROM, CPB and U. of Maryland, 1998.', submitted_by: 'Graham', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'JAPANESE: THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE, Rev.ed.', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Tape 1 - 45”, Tape 2 - 40”, Tape 3 - 20”', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 056', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kaneko, Shusuke', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Three new graduates, Ohara, Kitamachi and Tachikawa, take part in the battle of job-hunting, so as big companies recruiting talents and potentials. Interviews, tests and activities with odd ideas are carried out. Ohara looks successful in getting an offer froma famous TV station but he is surprised to know he is being set up. With his intelligence, he sooms gets the offer, but things never go the way as expected...', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Fuji TV network, 1991', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'Shushoku sensen ijonashi (Nothing unusual in the battle of job hunting)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '104"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with Chinese or English subtitles' } , { label: 'JA 057', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Murakami, Masanori', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A twentysomething computer nerd who goes by the chat room screen named "Densha Otoko" ("Train Man") finds himself in an unfamiliar role as "protector" when he ends up saving a woman from the advances of a drunken salaryman on a commuter train. When faced with the proposition of dating this new woman, he, a complete moron when it comes to ladies, turns to the anonymous chatroom pals for support, asking for tips on what just exactly he should do to win this woman\'s heart...', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '2005', submitted_by: 'Shingu', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DENSHA OTOKO (Train Man)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with English or Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 058', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Miyazaki, Hayao', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Animated film. Chihiro and her family take a shortcut along a lonely dirt road. They discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers. Mom and Dad don\'t hesitate to sit down and eat, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. In trying to break the spell on her parents, Chihiro comes to know much about indifference, and a little bit of hope. The strength to live, long dormant within her, begins to awaken.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Studio GHBI, 2001', submitted_by: 'donated by MIT library', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI (Spirited Away)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese or Cantonese with English or Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'JA 059', type: 'Item', language: 'Japanese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kon, Satoshi', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'An anime thriller about a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject\'s dreams. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a "dream terrorist".', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Madhouse, Japan, 2006', submitted_by: 'Nagaya', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PAPRIKA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Japanese with optional English subtitles.' } ] }

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