catalogue of video recordings (vhs, dvd) - The Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Summary: A marionette show has traditionally been presented yearly
at a festival in Yame-shi, Kyushu. The 'karakuri', or mechanical devices
that control these marionettes were contrived by a man named Tanaka
Giemon. This videogram will show how Japan received and digested
the modern technologies of the West throughout Giemon's inventive
life, during the 19th century the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and
the early Meiji period.
Restriction & Screening notes: Licensed for public screening at JF-
Sydney
Call Number: 502.1 NIT T 5
Title: Japanese technology : a tradition of craftsmanship = Nihon no
gijutsu : sono rutsu to konnichi (Nippon : the land and its people =
Nihon : sono sugata to kokoro ; 5)
Publisher: Tokyo : Nittetsu Hyuman Deberopumento 1989
Physical description: 24min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Call Number: 509.21 JAP 5
Title: Japan's Industry = Nihon no Sangyo (Japan Today ; 5)
Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1984
Physical description: 45 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English.
Summary: This volume introduces Japanese industry and focuses on
high technology.
Call Number: 510 NHK
Title: Excavation & bridge building technology (NHK International video
library ; State-of
-the
the-art Technology in Japan = Nihon no saishin
gijutsu ; 2)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International ?
Physical description: 15min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 515 PRO
Title: Bridge building pioneers : the story of the longest bridge =
Otokotachi fukutsu no dorama : Seto Ohashi : seiki no nankoji ni
idomu (NHK International video library ; Project X : innovators =
Purojekuto X : chosenshatachi ; 5)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International ?
Physical description: 43min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "In 1955, the sinking of a ship carrying 100 school children
in the Seto Inland Sea led to the demand for a bridge there. Legendary
engineer Hideo Sugita was faced with numerous challenges, among
them very swift tidal currents. Working with a diver who knew the sea
well, he overcame an oil shortage and many experimental failures. In
1988, the Seto Ohashi Bridge was completed, 18 years after the
project began. Over 1000 meters long, it incorporates a highway and
railway line. The programme tells the story of the men who worked
together as they took on this challenge, particularly forcusing on the
biggest obstacle in the completion of the bridge, the construction of
its underwater base." --From NHK International TV Programme
catalogue
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 519 NHK 1
Title: Quest for clean air and pure water = Taiki to mizu (NHK
International video library ; Preventing pollution in Japan = Nihon no
kankyo osen boshi gijutsu ; 1)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 1995
Physical description: 20min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "Japan has experienced many of the environmental
difficulties that newly industrialising nations are now facing--rapid
manufacturing growth leading to a degradation of air and water quality.
In Japan, this occurred in the 1950s, and the result was both a
lowering of the quality of life and the emergence of pollution-related
and touches on other environmental challenges still being addressed."
--From NHK International TV Programme catalogue
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Lilcensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 519 NHK 10
Title: Sharing Japanese technology = Umi o wataru Nihon no gijutsu
(NHK International video library ; Preventing pollution on in Japan =
Nihon no kankyo osen boshi gijutsu ; 10)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International ?
Physical description: 20min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed ed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 519 NHK 2
Title: Fighting and recycling waste = Gomi to risaikuru (NHK
International video library ; Preventing pollution in Japan = Nihon no
kankyo osen boshi gijutsu ; 2)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 1996
Physical description: 20min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "Every day, all over the world, tons of waste are generated
by manufacturers, offices and homes. Where does it all to go? The
traditional answers, garbage dumps and landfills, are becoming
increasingly inadequate to cope with the volume and variety of waste
produced. This programme introduces methods of reducing and
recycling waste, drawing on exmaples currently in use." --From NHK
International TV Programme catalogue
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 519 NHK 3
Title: Pollution of the seas = Kaiyo osen (NHK International video
library ; Preventing pollution in Japan J
= Nihon no kankyo osen boshi
gijutsu ; 3)
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 1997
Physical description: 20min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "People all over the world are sorried about pollution of the
seas. Japanese are no exception. Especially during the postwar period
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