Video Recording collection - The Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library
Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number
Summary: "Many of the women featured in this program lived a
rebellious youth, but now they're coming to terms with a major adult
responsibility - parenthood - and life can be tough if you are a yanmama,
or young mother. The central figure is Yukiko Kitajima age 26, the
architect of forum to enable young women such as herself to share their
everyday concerns and enjoy life in the company of friends". -- FROM
CONTAINER.
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English.
Summary: Japanese farmers have a deep attachment to the land which has
belonged to the family for generations. After Japan became a modern
industrial society, however, their sons and daughters tend to leave the
land for the cities. This volume tells the story of a Japanese farmer and
his son who suffers from dilemma between taking over the farm and
leaving the land for a city job.
Call Number: 599 WAY 20J
Title: A yanmama's love = Yanmamatachi no kinkyo hokoku
[Japanese edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no
raifusutairu) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1996
Physical description: 20 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in Japanese.
Summary: "Many of the women featured in this program lived a
rebellious youth, but now they're coming to terms with a major adult
responsibility - parenthood - and life can be tough if you are a yanmama,
or young mother. The central figure is Yukiko Kitajima age 26, the
architect of forum to enable young women such as herself to share their
everyday concerns and enjoy life in the company of friends". -- FROM
CONTAINER.
Call Number: 602.1 JAP 14
Title: Japanese Industry = Nihon no Sangyo (Japan Today ; 14)
[videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986
Physical description: 45 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Summary: This video makes us think about Japan in the future while
focusing on the various industries from old and new age.
Call Number: 611.74 NHK
Title: Weekend farmers = Kyujitsu wa hongyo no komezukuri (NHK
International video library ; Japanese lifestyle today = Nihonjin no
kurashi ; 2) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International
Physical description: 20min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack in English.
Summary: "80% of Japan's rice-productin farm households do not depend
entirely on farming for a livelihood. The head of the household does other
work during the week and only farms on weekends, leaving all the
weekday farming activities to his wife and parents. This has become
possible as a result of the modernisation of rice cultivation." -- From
NHK International TV Programme catalogue
Restriction & Screening notes: Not for Loan. Licensed for public
screening at JF-Sydney
Call Number: 611.91 WAY 10E
Title: The fourth generation in Hokkaido = Boku wa kaitaku
yondaime [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]
Summary: This volume features two high school boys go to an
agricultural high school in Hokkaido. The two boys have determined to
succeed to their father's farming job. Their dreams to become greater
farmers than their father and their everyday life are described.
Call Number: 611.91 WAY 10J
Title: The fourth generation in Hokkaido = Boku wa kaitaku
yondaime [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]
Summary: "We meet two boys at an agricultural high school who are
determined to preserve the sprit of their forefathers by faeming the kand
that those same ancestors were the first to till. We examine the everyday
lives and ambitions of these young men against the backdrop of the
changing seasons in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan.
On faems claimed from the rugged wilds of Hokkaido about 100 years
ago, the subject of who will take over the family business brings out deep
emotions and strong attachments, we home in on relations between father
and son, and experience contemporary lif eon northern farm". -- FRON
CONTAINER.
Call Number: 616.2 NHK
Title: Rice cultivation = Inasaku (NHK International video library ;
The new technology of Japanese agriculture = Nihon no nogyo ; 1)
[videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 2001
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: 611.91 FAC 21
Title: An Uncertain Harvest = Nihon no Nogyo Dekasegi Nomin
[English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 21) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986
Physical description: 30 min Video Recording
System requirements: VHS [PAL]
Language: Soundtrack chiefly in English.
Summary: This volume illustrates how farmers make a living after the
harvest, and explains how unstable the farmers' lives are due to uncertain
harvest.
Call Number: 622.1 NHK
Title: Dry field farming = Hatasaku, kaju saibai (NHK International
video library ; The new technology of Japanese agriculture = Nihon
no nogyo ; 2) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 2001
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: 611.91 FAC 7
Title: The Sacred Land = Tochi eno Aichaku [English edition] (Faces
of Japan ; 7) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986
Physical description: 30 min Video Recording
Call Number: 626.17 NHK
Title: Greenhouse cultivation = Yasai kojo (NHK International video
library ; The new technology of Japanese agriculture = Nihon no
nogyo ; 4) [videorecording]
Publisher: Tokyo : NHK International 2001
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