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The Essence of being Japanese
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Japan in the modern age: a people existing between the protection of the kami and the geological dangers of earthquake. This program covers the cataclysmic events of the 20th century-the devastatin...
Japan in the modern age: a people existing between the protection of the kami and the geological dangers of earthquake. This program covers the cataclysmic events of the 20th century-the devastating earthquake of 1923, the rise of militarism, the accession of Emperor Hirohito, the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, the Pacific War, Hiroshima, and the American occupation of Japan-but its primary focus is on what makes Japan Japanese: the Shinto rituals which are part of modern mercantile life; such societal traits as conformism and determination, attitudes toward violence and brutality, business ethics and the life of the salary man, the attitude toward ethics, and the role of the kami in modern Japan.
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- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c1989
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- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (48 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780736566445
- OCLC
- ocn798238210
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Twentieth Century Japan (3:42) -- Catastrophic Events Shape Japan (4:24) -- Post WWII Transition in Japan (4:23) -- Culture and Rites of Passage (6:33) -- Corporate Japan (3:33) -- Marriage Ceremonies in Japan (3:12) -- Modernization of Japan (3:13) -- Cherry Tree Festival and Sumo Sport (3:48) -- Escapes from the Modern World (4:20) -- Camaraderie and Religion (3:53) -- Modernity and Antiquity Side by Side (4:53)