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IT IS SOMETIMES EASY for us to forget the precious beauty of the country in which we live. While I can appreciate countries I have yet to visit, I count myself lucky to be able to travel around Japan and capture many beautiful images. With this exhibition, I want to share my view of Japan as a “toy box” containing lots of treasures.
Naoki Honjo graduated with a Media Arts degree in Tokyo. He has participated in numerous exhibitions. His first photo book, small planet, received the 32nd Kimura Ihe Award in 2006. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts in the U.S.
. . . at 6:00 pm (one hour earlier than usual) on Tuesday, June 9 for a sneak preview screening of Oscar-nominated documentarian John Junkerman’s important new film, Okinawa: The Afterburn. The director, who will be on hand for an English-only Q&A session after the screening, has created award-winning titles like Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times and Japan’s Peace Constitution. Junkerman and his producer Tetsujiro Yamagami now explore the past, present and future of Japan’s southernmost prefecture, illuminating its troubling history of ongoing occupation, human and civil rights violations, and dogged resistance. This sobering documentary comes not a moment too soon, as the United States, with the active support of the Japanese government, begins construction of its huge new Marine base in Henoko despite determined protests against it. Today, the U.S. military occupies nearly 20 percent of Okinawa, accounting for 74 percent of its military presence in Japan.
(Japan, 2015; 148 minutes; Japanese/English with English subtitles)
“This will be the fourth or fifth attempt [at balancing the budget and cutting the deficit]. I think we have to do it this time or the deficit will be so huge that we’ll never able to do it.”
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