Events
Week of Events
Goodness beyond Melodrama: Compassionate Awareness in Ozu’s Tokyo Story
Goodness beyond Melodrama: Compassionate Awareness in Ozu’s Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story (1953), the most famous film in Ozu Yasuji's so-called "Noriko triology" and regularly ranked first among the top-ten greatest films of all time, is based loosely on Leo McCrarey's 1937 American melodrama, Make Way for Tomorrow. An elderly … Read more
Lantern Festival Event
Lantern Festival Event
Chinese Lantern Festival is coming up. As usual, Friendship Association Of Chinese Students And Scholars is honored to hold a Lantern Festival Fair at Fedex Global Education Center atrium on Thursday, February 21 from 6:45-8:00PM. The fair is a free … Read more
Okinawa’s “shrine problem”: Reconfigurations of Okinawa’s religious landscape, 1879-1945
Okinawa’s “shrine problem”: Reconfigurations of Okinawa’s religious landscape, 1879-1945
Mainland shrine Shinto and its practices of kami worship spread in prewar Okinawa as part of the imposition of Japanese colonial rule in the prefecture. This spread was visible not only in the establishment of new Shinto shrines but also … Read more
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