Video Recording collection - The Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Call Number: 388.1 TOR 8
Title: Urashima Taro. Nezumi no yomeiri (Toru to Ikue no anime
Nihon mukashibanashi ; 8) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : TDK Koa
Physical description: Video Recording 1 videocassette
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Call Number: 388.1 TOR 9
Title: Sitakiri suzume. Chikara Taro (Toru to Ikue no anime Nihon
mukashibanashi ; 9) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : TDK Koa
Physical description: 25 min Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC).
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Call Number: 388.1 TOR 9
Title: Sitakiri suzume. Chikara Taro (Toru to Ikue no anime Nihon
mukashibanashi ; 9) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : TDK Koa
Physical description: 25 min Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC).
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Call Number: 391.61 JPN
Title: Rachi, yurusarezaru kōi [videorecording] : Kita Chōsen ni yoru
Nihonjin rachi no higeki / kikaku [by] Nihonkoku Seifu Rachi
Mondai Taisaku Honbu = Abduction, an unforgivable crime : the
tragedy of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea.| 拉 致 , 許 され
ざる 行 為 [videorecording] : 北 朝 鮮 による 日 本 人 拉 致 の 悲 劇 / 企 画
[by] 日 本 国 政 府 拉 致 問 題 対 策 本 部 = Abduction, an unforgi
Publisher: [Japan : [s.n.], 2007.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 28 min.) :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in.
Video Recording
System requirements:DVD(PAL).
Language: Full version (ca. 20 min.) and digest version (ca. 8 min.)
available in multiple languages soundtrack options (
Call Number: 392.1075 QUI
Title: Return to Sandakan [videorecording]
Publisher: Lindfield, NSW : Film Australia 1995
Physical description: 55 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "During World War , Sandakan prisoner of war camp in
British North Borneo held nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners. Ny war's edn,
only six would still be alive. The story of the atrocities committes by the
Japanese at Sandakan is one of the grimmest of the Pacific War. Shot in
Australia, Japan and Malaysia, this one hour documentary recounts a
tragic story if prisoners of war: the use of forced labour, the death
marches through the Borneo jungle and the rescue of only six survivors.
Return to Sandakan also examined the leagcy of these events today for
survivors and their families. For those whose lives have been changed by
the tragedy of Sandakan, it is a crime that is hard to forgive, impossible to
forget". -- FROM CONTAINER.
Call Number: 396.21 FAC 18
Title: Woman Soldier = Josei Jieitaiin Kunren ni Akekurete [English
edition] (Faces of Japan ; 18) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986
Physical description: 30 min Video Recording
System requirements:VHS (NTSC).
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: A twenty-year old girl, Fumiko Imai, joined the Self Defense
Force. This video portrays her life from the point she joined the army to
the days drilling in the army and her desire for the future.
Call Number: 482.136 JPF
Title: Common Cormorants in Tokyo [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Kokusai Koryu Kikin = The Japan Foundation 1995
Physical description: 36 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: This documentary examines the life cycle of the common
Cormorant in modern day Tokyo. There is a very large colony of
cormorant living in Ueno as part of a project put together by Ueno Zoo,
to re-introduce the birds into the Tokyo area. The comorants ordinally
lives in Chiba with a mazimum population of 40,000. They were an
important feature i the city abd after they were forced out, due to Keio
industrial district developments, were sadly missed. The project reintroduce
them to the urban environment has been highly successful, now
the birds can once again be observed in detail from the city.
Call Number: 488.7 JPF
Title: The Gray-Faced Buzzard Eagle: Wings Across the Sea
[videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Kokusai Koryu Kikin = The Japan Foundation 1995
Physical description: 35 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: This is a wildlife documentary dedicated to the disapperaing
Grey Faced Buzzard Eagle of Japan. This bird migrates between Japan
and south East Asia every year and is often spootted traveling down the
Japanese Archipelago. Then thousands o fthese birds visit Japan each
year and this documentary explains their-cycle, feeding patterns, mating
rituals and courtship.
Call Number: 492.14 PRO
Title: A groundbreaking microscopic camera = Gan o sagashidase :
kanzen kokusan ikamera kaihatsu (NHK International video
library ; Procect X : innovators = Purojekuto X : chosenshatachi ; 1)
[videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International
Physical description: 43min 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: 498.1 FAC 15
Title: Island Doctor = Gendai no Akahige [English edition] (Faces of
Japan ; 15) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986
Physical description: 30 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Aoundtrack in English.
Summary: The volume focuses on a young man who is the only doctor on
a small island. The volume introduces the doctor's life style on twentyfour
hour call, life in the small island, and the local government role to
send physicians to remote area.
Call Number: 498.16 NHK
Title: Local healthcare : the role of a public health center = Chiiki no
hoken : hokenjo no yakuwari (NHK International video library ; The
Japanese approach to medical service and healthcare = Nihon no
hoken, iryo ; 3) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International
Physical description: 15min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
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