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Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : National Film Board of Canada 1980 Physical description: 28 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "WHy has Japan succeeded in automating and computerizing her industry at an unpraralleled rate? Why are the Japanese such successful businessmen? This film examines a labor and management philosophy which is in striking contrast to that of the West. For the Japanese worker, a job is a lifetime commitment, for his employer a lifetime responsibility. There is no question of outsiders ever filling a top management position. For th 110 milion people of Japan, survival means doing things together - a concept that is based on cooperation rather than confrontation as in Western industrial nations. Just now this level of achivement has been reached is the subject of this absorbing documentary on Jpanese business and industry". -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 336.4 KAT Title: Good-bye Japan corporation (New horizons ; Japan) Publisher: Lindfield, NSW : Film Australia 1996 Physical description: 27 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: Since the economic bubble burst, corporate Japan has been restrucuring, Mr Yoshikawa is one of the casualities - a "corporate warrior" who served his company faithfully for years but now faces retrenchment. He decides to fight back, joining the Tokyo Managers Union which helps middle managers cope with the shock of dismissal. The truble is, Mr Yoshikawa still hasn't told his wife... Call Number: 336.41 FAC 23 Title: Leaving the Shipyard = Nihon no Zosen Sangyokozo no henka no nakade [English edition] (Faces of Japan n ; 23) Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 30 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack cheifly in English with some Japanese. Summary: This volume introduces a man working at the shipyard who has asked for an assignment away from home because of the company's having hard times. It also explains how he feels about the assignments and his decision for his future. Call Number: 338 FAC 22 Title: East Of Wall Street = Toyo no Wallgai Amelikajin Syokenman [English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 22) Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 30 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English with some Japanese. Summary: This volume introduces three American stock brokers who work in the stock exchange in Tokyo by visiting their jobsites, home and days-off. Call Number: 338.1 SAK 5 Title: Sakai Noriko no yoiko no ohanashi hiroba. Kobutori jiisan. Urashima Tarō | 酒井法子のよいこのおはなしひろば ; こぶとりじいさん. うらしまたろう. . .|. Publisher: [Tōkyō] : Kingu Rekōdo, 2003.|[ 東京 ] : キングレコード, 2003.| Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD, NTSC, region 2) (44 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet. Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Language option in narration. Call Number: 361.42 JPF Title: The Mentality of Japanese People Publisher: North Sydney, NSW : The Japan Foundation. Japanese Cultural Centre 1993 Physical description: 83 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in Japanese with English Interpreter. Summary: This is a recording of a lecture given by visiting Professor Nakanishi, from the International Reserch Centre for Japanese Studies in Japan, at the Japan Foundation Sydney on the 22nd May 1993. This video includes the 60-minute lecture and the 20-minute Q&A session with the audience. Nakanishi tries to rationalize the development of the Japanese psyche through the history of the language and its relationship with nature. Call Number: 361.5 CAS Title: Tokyo techno tribes Publisher: 2001 Physical description: 78min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English with some Japanese for interview parts. Call Number: 361.5 JAP 18 Title: Cultural Exchange = Bunka Koryu (Japan Today y ; 18) Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 45 min Video Recording System requirements:VHS (NTSC). Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English with some Japanese. Summary: This video portrays foreigners working in Japan and shows how active they are in their fields. Call Number: 361.5 NHK 10 Title: 21-seiki eno chōsen = Adventure on the way to the 21st century | [produced by NHK International].|21 世紀への挑戦 = Adventure on the way to the 21st century | [produced by NHK International].| Publisher: [Tokyo?] : NHK International, [c1987-1988]. Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (45 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. Video Recording System requirements:DVD(NTSC). Language: Soundtrack in Japanese with English subtitles. Summary: "Ever since Buddhism first arrived, Japan has been adopting and adapting foreign cultures in a unique way. On the surface it may seem that new technologies, customs and social systems have been embraced in their entirety. But look below the surface and Japan's cultural core -- the national worldview and philosophy -- has remained virtually free of foreign influence. So what is the primal worldview that Japanese have clung to so tenaciously through the ages? This programme wraps up the series by considering from a contemporary viewpoint the various expressions of Japanese mind and philosophy examined in the first nine programmes." -- from 300 TV programmes on Japan. Call Number: 361.5049 COZ Title: Kiwi tsunami 9 21-Apr-10
Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number Publisher: [Tokyo?] : Surge Production 2003 Physical description: 95 min. :sd., col ;1/2 in.+ 1 booklet Video Recording System requirements:VHS (PAL). Language: Soundtrack in Japanese. Each episode recorded twice, the later take with English subtitles. Call Number: 361.7 KAI N-10N Title: Ano machi kono machi (Kaigai shijo no tame no Nihongo gakushu bideo kyozai ; Seikatsu-hen ; N-10) Publisher: Tokyo : Nihon Terebi Bunka Jigyodan 1980s Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in Japanese. Call Number: 361.7 NIT 6 Title: Japanese society : in Tokyo and in the country = Tokyo no kurashi, chiho no kurashi (Nippon : the land and its people = Nihon sono sugata to kokoro; 6) Publisher: Tokyo : Nittetsu Hyuman Deberopumento 1989 Physical description: 23min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: Joys and troubles in the daily lives of the Japanese. This video introduces the lives of those in the older sections of Tokyo who still regard neighborly relationships as important amid the abnormally high land and commodity prices of this densely populated international city, people in new housing developments in regional communities, and people living in the countryside, troubled with the problems of young people leaving for the cities and a lack of people to take over their farms. Through the story of a university student and his life in Tokyo, the video elucidates how the modern japanese associate with one another and the present state of their local communities, as well as what's behind the concentration of the population in Tokyo, and Japan's social structure. -- From the video package. System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "The secret of Japan's success - The Japanese businessman. Presented here is his life, as reported through interviews with three generations of businessmen. The balancing of relationship with fellow workers, clients, and his own family. The late naight, the weekends of work, the worries over mortgages and retirement. The changing climate in which he works, as the life-long employment system gives way to a more survival oriented one. The heart of Japan as revealed through its businessmen." -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 362.04 FEU 1 Title: Japan : The Living Tradition - The Feudal Experience Part 1 Publisher: 1987 Physical description: 29 min Video Recording System requirements:VHS (NTSC). Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: A comprehensive introduction to the emerging culture of the Samurai and an early history of the ruling of Jpaan. The relationship between the Imperial Court and the Samurai is explained along with the uedal system. Part 1 concludes with the Mongol invasions and the Daimyo Lords. Call Number: 362.04 FEU 2 Title: Japan: The Living Tradition - The Feudal Experience Part 2 Publisher: 1987 Physical description: 29 min Video Recording System requirements:VHS (NTSC). Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: Part 2 of this series covers rom mid 16th centry right up until 1853. Three great Leaders of this period are presented Nobunaga, Hideyoshi amd Tokugawa and the changes they made to Japanese society. The Tokugawa period is examinesin detail from its success in creating peace to its fall under international trade. Call Number: 361.78 NHK Title: Working for urban fashion trends = Ryuko o tsukuru wakamono (NHK International video library ; Japanese lifestyle today = Nihonjin no kurashi ; 9) Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International ? Physical description: 20min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "The revolutionary, the exciting, the stylish, the cool--many cultural trends are led by the young generation. This programme provides a portrait of some of the young people working as fashion designers, stylists, interior coordinators, hair stylists, and image planners who value independence and the freedom to direct urban fashion trends." -- From NHK International TV Programme catalogue Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public screening at JF-Sydney Call Number: 362.1 AIM Title: The Japanese way of life Publisher: Van Nuys, CA : AIMS Media 1989 Physical description: 25 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "Japan's unique style of doing business, its success in manufacturing and trade, its social customs and practices, and its economic relationship with the United States are revealed in this upto-date survey. In order to inderstand Japan's reemarkable post-war economic recovery, the program examines... ・The success of Nintendo, the dominant video game company in the U.S. market. ・ The Japanese work ethic and loyalty to company, discusses by workers at a Minolta plant. ・ The importance of traditional Japanese values -"the Jpaanese way" - in theri business world. ・ The differences between family life in Japan and the United States. ・ The role of women in Japanese society" . -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 361.84 NIT 2 Title: The Japanese businessman : the fighting spirit within the Group etthsc = Nihon no bijinesuman : shudan no naka de no ""ganbari"" no kokoro (Nippon : the land and its people = Nihon : sono sugata to kokoro ; 2) Publisher: Tokyo : Nittetsu Hyuman Deberopumento 1989 Physical description: 25min Video Recording Call Number: 362.1 JAP 13 Title: Manner and Society in Japan = Nihon no Shakai , Fuzoku (Japan Today ; 13) Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 45 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. 10 21-Apr-10
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