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Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number Call Number: 332.107 SBS Title: Japan - It's Economic Performance [videorecording] Publisher: Loganholme D. C., QLD : Marcom Procjects 1992 Physical description: 25 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "After the boom in economic growth, Japan seems to have fallen into a recession. Dateline looks at present day Japan and the quality of life for 125 milion Japanese". -- FROM CONTAINER. Title: A Small Business = Shacyo Funsenki [English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 10) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 30 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: The volume introduces the hard working of owner of a small business. The president who runs a small metal company faces a problem: his business is in trouble because of the strong yen. He tries to develop new products to help his business. Call Number: 335.13 NIT 9 Title: Japan's corporate system : the role of the entrepreneur = Kigyokatachi no kokoro ni nagareru mono (Nippon : the land and its people = Nihon : sono sugata to kokoro ; 9) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Nittetsu Hyuman Deberopumento 1990 Physical description: 30min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: "The role of the Entrepreneur; This video follows the daily life of two company presidents, one of a leading manufacturing firm and the other in the service industry, who have risen in a single genertaion to the top of their respective industries. It is an impressive portrayal of the underlying principles at work in Japanese management. In their corporate outlook, customer relations, business planning, decision-making process and resilience to changing times, this video shows a management theory in practics, one that is relevent the world over". -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 335.13 WAY 16E Title: The day of a female entrepreneur = Josei shacho no hibi [English edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1995 Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Summary: This volume introduces the success and struggle of three women who freed themselves from the conventional stereotype of Japanese women and started their own businesses. Call Number: 335.13 WAY 16J Title: The day of a female entrepreneur = Josei shacho no hibi [Japanese edition] (The way of life in Japan = Nihonjin no raifusutairu) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Bonjinsha 1995 Physical description: 20 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soudtrack in Japanese. Summary: "More and more Japanese women are setting up and running their own companies as a means to take control of their working lives and adapting them to the requirements of their existances as women. The program explores this and other factors contributing to a Japanese woman's desire to be an enterpreneur. We see what everyday lif eis actually like for three women who are presidents of theri own companies, and hear what each has to say about her work". -- FROM CONTAINER. Call Number: 335.47 FAC 9 Title: An American Businessman in Japan = Zainichi Amerika Kigyo [English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 9) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 30 min Video Recording System requirements: VHS [PAL] Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: This volume focuses on an American businessman who sells American houses. He is virtually on his own and faces various cultural barriers on his way to proceed with his business. Call Number: 336 LAS Title: Japan Inc : lessons for North America : why are the Japanese such successful businessmen [videorecording] 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) [videorecording] 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: 335.21 JAP 15 Title: Japanese Economy = NIhon no Keizai (Japan Today ; 15) [videorecording] Publisher: Tokyo : Intervoice 1986 Physical description: 45 min Video Recording System requirements:VHS (NTSC). Language: Soundtrack in English. Summary: This video introduces Japanese economy by comparing prices and companies in Japan and U.S. Also, analysis of various aspects of Japanese business leads us to understand the of Japanese economy system. Call Number: 335.35 FAC 10 Call Number: 336.41 FAC 23 Title: Leaving the Shipyard = Nihon no Zosen Sangyokozo no henka no nakade [English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 23) [videorecording] 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. 7 1-Apr-09
Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Indexed by call number Call Number: 338 FAC 22 Title: East Of Wall Street = Toyo no Wallgai Amelikajin Syokenman [English edition] (Faces of Japan ; 22) [videorecording] 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. 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: 338.1 SAK 5 Title: Sakai Noriko no yoiko no ohanashi hiroba. Kobutori jiisan. Urashima Tarō [videorecording]| 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. [videorecording].| 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 [videorecording] 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 [videorecording] 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 ; 18) [videorecording] 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 [videorecording] = Adventure on the way to the 21st century / [produced by NHK International].|21 世紀への挑戦 [videorecording] = 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). Call Number: 361.5049 COZ Title: Kiwi tsunami [videorecording] 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-10 Title: Ano machi kono machi (Kaigai shijo no tame no Nihongo gakushu bideo kyozai ; Seikatsu-hen ; N-10) [videorecording] 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) [videorecording] 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. 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) [videorecording] 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 8 1-Apr-09
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