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Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number 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) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Nittetsu Hyuman Deberopumento 1989 Physical description: 25min Video Recording 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. Physical description: 45 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: This video illustrates various stresses disturbing the present Japanese society. And at the same time, it makes us think how we should react to such stresses in the future. Call Number: 365 JAP 3 Title: Everyday Life in Japan = Nichijyo Seikatsu (Japan Today ; 3) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1984 Physical description: 45 min Video Recording System requirements:VHS (NTSC). Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English. Summary: This volume introduces everyday life in Japan by focusing on the different aspects from America. Call Number: 362.04 FEU 1 Title: Japan : The Living Tradition - The Feudal Experience Part 1 [videorecording] 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 [videorecording] 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: 362.1 AIM Title: The Japanese way of life [videorecording] 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 up-todate 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: 362.1 JAP 13 Title: Manner and Society in Japan = Nihon no Shakai , Fuzoku (Japan Today ; 13) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Call Number: 365.7 JAP 17 Title: Leisure & sports in Japan = Nihon no reja to supotsu (Japan today ; 17) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 45 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: This video portrays some of the popular leisure time activities including sports that Japanese people enjoy doing these days. Call Number: 366.271QAN Title: Shorai = The future [videorecording] Publisher: Sydney : QANTAS 1993 Physical description: 22 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Summary: "Shorai is the Japanese word for the future. This kit containing a video and booklet, highlight the expanding career opportunities available for Australians who have aquired Japanese language skills. The video profiles eleven young Australians discussing their work in a variety of occupations abd the booklet examines the "where, why and how" of career oppotunities". -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 366.29 NHK Title: Fathers at night school = Kyaria appu! ganbaru otosan (NHK International video library ; Japanese lifestyle today = Nihonjin no kurashi ; 1) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International Physical description: 20min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "Many Japanese companies are now reconsidering the traditional seniority system and the concept of lifetime employment. It is clear that compnay workers need more qualifications and higher skills to survive in the future. This programme introduces the lives of middle-aged salaried workers who are studying hart at night school to improve their credentials." --From NHK International TV Programme catalogue Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public screening at JF-Sydney Call Number: 366.38 NIT 11 Title: Working women : personal and social goals = Hataraku joseitachi : ikigai o motomete (Nippon : the land and its people = Nippon : sono sugata to kokoro ; 11) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Nittetsu Hyuman Deberopumento 1991 Physical description: 30min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "Japanese women, who heve sought employment in remarkable numbers since the end of WW, now account for half of the 9 1-Apr-09
Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number work force. This video shows their roles both at home and at work. You will be able to get glimpses of single women office staff in their 20s and housewives in their 40s reentering the job market asa part-time workers as well as socially active career women as they recount their reality, problems, and hopes with a touch of humor. The camera takes you into the everyday life and consciousness of these women to give us a deeper understanding of the Japanese female in modern day society". -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 366.8 JPF Title: Crafts of Edo [videorecording] Publisher: 1979 Physical description: 29 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Summary: This documentary honors the Edo craftmen of Japan, from the past and the present. Commenting on the intense years of observation for training and subborn will that it takes to master an art. Today's traditional craftmen are still working in the same way that their ancestors did in Edo times. The history of Edo with its craftmen, cinsumers and merchants is explained and linked to today's artists. Call Number: 366.8 WAY 4J Title: Free-lance part-timer = Furita [Japanese edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1994 Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in Japanese. Summary: "A "freeter" is a person who's left school and does a number of jobs part time for short periods rather than working for one company for life. Freeters first emerged in Japan as result of changing values among young people, and in response to a chronic shortage if labor. Their numbers continue to increase. Here we meet two freeters: one is 25-yearold man who dropped out of university in his third year and is now seeking to exploit his full potencial via a wide variety of jobs; the other is a 20-year-old woman who came to Tokyo in the hope of becoming an actress and continues to nurture this dream while working part time and living in lodgings". -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 366.8 WAY 8E Title: Mastery of the chef's blade = Hocho ippon [English edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1994 Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: In the world of the traditional Japanese chef, it is said a newcomer takes 15 years to make the grade: the system of apprenticeship still exists and each aspiring craftsman has to battle a harsh meritocracy. This volume shows the life of a young man who strives to be a chef and his struggle through their early apprenticeship. Call Number: 366.8 WAY 8J Title: Mastery of the chef's blade = Hocho ippon [Japanese edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1994 Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in Japanese. Summary: "There are about half a milion restaurants and bars in Japan, providing employment for some 2.3 milion people. Restaurants in Tokyo offer all of the major international styles of cooking including, of course, Jpanese cuisine. In the world of the traditional Japanese chef, a system of apprenticeship still exists and each aspiring craftman has to battle through a harsh meritocracy. In this profession it's said to take a newcomer 15 years to make the grade, but young people are still drawn to it. In this program, we look at the traditional hierachey preserved behind the scenes at a Japanese restaurant in an ultra-modern hotel. We find out what kind of life a young man leads as he and his contemporaries struggle through their early apprenticeship, constantly wary of the master chef they hold in awe". -- FROM CONTAINER Call Number: 366.8 WAY 4E Title: Free-lance part-timer = Furita [English edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1994 Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: This volume illustrates 'Freeter', young people who work at a number of jobs part time for short periods rather than one company for life. The woman who wants to to be an actress, and the man who would like to be an inventor-these two Freeters' value of life and reactions of people around them are portrayed. Call Number: 367 JPF Title: The Hanawa Family - A Japanese Family Nihon no Kazoku [videorecording] Publisher: 1980 Physical description: 29 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Summary: Old Japan vs New Japan in this insightful documentary. Family members in this extended family are introduced along with their personal history they live in a typical high density Tokyo suburb. There are four generations who co-exist in their various private and public roles, The war and later economic growth in Japan are linked to the social changes that have taken place in society, and this has lead to the changes of Japanese families. Call Number: 367.21 FAC 1 Title: The Story of Noriko = Noriko no Baai [English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 1) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 30 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English. Summary: This volume is about Noriko who is 21 years old and her struggle to forge a career for herself. Noriko, as a modern young woman, wants desperately to begin a career in Tokyo, but her parents expect her to have omiai and have arranged marriage in her home town in the north of Japan. This is not the only barrier for her in achieving her goal. She is also confronted by the fact that when looking for a job most of the position of significance are open only for men. The video introduces Noriko's struggle toward her goal. Call Number: 367.21 LAS Title: Japanese Women [videorecording] Publisher: South Melbourne, VIC : Australian Film Institute 1984 Physical description: 53min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "A film for those seeking insight into contemporary Japanese society, this one-hour documentary examines the status of women in Japan. Through a well-balanced blend of archival footage, candid interviews and fly-on -the-well scenes of women at home and in the workplace, it investigates Japanese lifestyle, social values, labor practices and the women's movement. A film highly recommended for students of Sociology and Far Eastern and Women's Studies, as well as for those who intend to visit or do business in Japan." -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 367.3 FIL 10 1-Apr-09
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