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Contemporary Documentaries of Japan: "Campaign"

8:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Japanese

Please join us for four recent documentary films about Japanese society. Award-winning documentary CAMPAIGN depicts a heated election campaign in Kawasaki City, Japan, by following a candidate with no political experience on the campaign trail.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Commencement 2017-Reception Chinese/Japanese/EAS

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: International Programs & Off Campus Study, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Japanese

Commencement reception for Chinese, Japanese and EAS majors and families.

(Private)

Open to the Public

Commencement 2016-Reception Chinese/Japanese/EAS

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: International Programs & Off Campus Study, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Japanese

Commencement reception for Chinese, Japanese and EAS majors and families.

(Private)

Open to the Public

Aikido Practice and Community Building

2:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Japanese

Open to the Public

Reading Natsume Soseki on the Right: Kokoro in Midcentury America

6:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Japanese, and East Asian Studies

Brian Hurley assistant professor of Japanese literature, film & culture at Syracuse University

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Okinawan Shamisen Workshop

3:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Japanese and J Club

Come and join the Japanese Club and Japanese Dept. for a collaborative event teaching Okinawan music and dance with Sonny Ochiai, a famous performer from New York City! We will be playing the shamisen, then learning traditional Japanese dance. No knowledge of Japanese is necessary!

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Japanese Film Series

8:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Japanese

“Akanezora” (Beyond the Crimson Sky) is based on Yamamoto Ichikiri’s award-winning novel. Set in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in the mid-18th century, the film tells the story of a couple whose successful tofu shop is threatened by family problems . Sponsored by the 13th Japan Foundation Film Series and the Japanese Studies Department Free and open to the public.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Japanese Film Series

8:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Japanese

“Silver Spoon” portrays the struggles of an urban Japanese high school student who enrolls in an agricultural high school in Hokkaido. The film won the 2015 Yokohama Film Festival award for best screen play. Sponsored by the 13th Japan Foundation Film Series and the Japanese Studies Department Free and open to the public.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public