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If you're in the Los Angeles area there's still time to join us for this special event (4/4), offered in partnership with Japan Foundation LA & Japan House LA, featuring 4 Japanese spoken theater performers showcasing their craft! To register or see more info, visit: www.jflalc.org/event-detail...

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Film enthusiasts in LA and the Chicago area! 🎞️✨👇 You can check out what promises to be an amazing performance/screening of rare 1930s Japanese paper film 紙フィルム！

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Deadline approaching! ⬇️ We look forward to your applications!

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We are delighted to be welcoming the Japanese Paper Film Project (@kamifirumu.bsky.social) to UCLA at the Billy Wilder Theater April 13th! 🎞️ Come enjoy a selection of rare 1930s paper film (kami firumu) and experience these pieces of early film history! www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/japan...

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Are you gearing up for #AAS2025? We’ll be there! Come by booth 613 this week to say hello and learn about all the exciting things we’re up to at JPP and the @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social! 🗾 Plus, swag! 🖊️😍

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Come by, Japan enthusiasts! Check out the latest with Japan Past & Present and of course all the exciting publications and projects the Yanai Initiative has been collaborating on. 🗾 Learn more about translation, performance, and opportunities for graduate students to visit UCLA!

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The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities invites graduate students from non-U.S. institutions in Japanese humanities fields to apply to come to UCLA as Visiting Graduate Researchers during the 2025-2026 academic year! 柳井イニシアティブでは2025‐2026年度の招聘研究員としてUCLAに迎える日本文化研究の大学生を募集します！

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The 2nd Directors' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2024 in Tokio will be held from 12/8~12/19 at Human Trust Cinema Shibuya! On the 14th (Sat) and 18th (Wed), the animation “Extremely Short” will be screened. Please take this opportunity to come and see the film! www.cannes-df-in-tokio.com

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カンヌ国際映画祭監督週間 2024 in Tokioが12/8(日)~19(木）までヒューマントラストシネマ渋谷にて開催されます！ 14日（土）及び18日（水）には、柳井イニシアティブが企画・制作する新シリーズ「文学ビデオ」の第一作目『とても短い』が上映されます。是非来てください！ www.cannes-df-in-tokio.com

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Join us at Japan Foundation Los Angeles on 12/4 at 7pm for "An Evening with Tomoka Shibasaki: Readings & Conversation"! 📖 Tomoka Shibasaki, Yanai Initiative Visiting Professor, will discusse her literary works, including the award-winning Spring Garden (Haru no niwa). www.jflalc.org/event-detail...

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Join us at Japan Foundation Los Angeles on 12/4 at 7pm for "An Evening with Tomoka Shibasaki: Readings & Conversation"! 📖 Tomoka Shibasaki, Yanai Initiative Visiting Professor, will discusse her literary works, including the award-winning Spring Garden (Haru no niwa). www.jflalc.org/event-detail...

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Get your tickets now to the 11/24 film screening Asako I & II, featuring the author Tomoka Shibasaki whose novel Netemo sametemo the film adapts! 🎞️📖 Presented by Acropolis Cinema and the Yanai Initiative. For more information, visit: dice.fm/event/k688dl...

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作家・古川日出男氏とアニメーション作家・山村浩二氏による短編アニメーション映画『とても短い』について、嬉しいニュースをお伝えします。この作品は、古川日出男氏の短編小説「とても短い」を原作とし、柳井イニシアティブが企画・制作する新シリーズ「文学ビデオ」の第一作目となります。

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We are delighted to share some exciting news about “Extremely Short,” a short film by animator Yamamura Kōji. Based on Furukawa Hideo’s short story "Totemo mijikai," this is the first film in a new series called “Bungaku Bideo” conceived & produced by the Yanai Initiative.

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Calling those in the Seattle area! On 11/13 will be a film screening of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Asako I & II” at the University of Washington, Seattle. 🎬 Presented with support from the Yanai Initiative and Japan Foundation Los Angeles. www.jflalc.org/event-detail...

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Happening 11/3 at The Culver Theater! 🚨 Part of Canne’s Directors’ Fortnight Extended: “Desert of Namibia” will be featured alongside Kōji Yamamura's “Extremely Short,” film #1 in the Yanai Initiative’s Bungaku Bideo project. This will be the US premiere! 🎞️ www.acropoliscinema.com/films/desert...

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Be sure to check out the program! ⬇️ Student discount tickets are available for the series as well as for individual screenings! Directors’ Fortnight Extended in LA (Nov 1-3): acropoliscinema.com

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We are delighted to be able to partner with so many great organizations for “A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary” Nov 1-17th! at the Billy Wilder Theater in LA! 🎞️ youtu.be/ITk6w3LgnZs

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このたび柳井イニシアティブは、柳井正氏より、日本文化・日本人文科学研究の活動、特に新たに立ち上げたプロジェクト「ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント」のために、3,100万米ドル（約45億円）のご寄付をいただくことになりました。この大きな喜びを皆さんにご報告いたします！ newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/tad...

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The Yanai Initiative is excited & humbled to share philanthropist Tadashi Yanai has committed $31 million to support the Yanai Initiative’s activities in the Japanese humanities, in particular its newly launched project Japan Past & Present (@jppinfo.bsky.social). newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/tad...

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We are excited to share that 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program applications are open! The Yanai Initiative is pleased to support this important venue for training, mentorship, & enhancing visibility of literature around the world. 📝 literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/2...

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This weekend! Join us for GIFT: Eiko Ishibashi + Ryusuke Hamaguchi, a live performance by Ishibashi accompanying a screening of Hamaguchi's film GIFT! 🎞️ Performances at 2:15 & 8:30pm 9/28; 8:30pm 9/29. Presented by the Yanai Initiative & Acropolis Cinema! yanai-initiative.ucla.edu/event/the-ya...

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The Yanai Initiative is pleased to announce the Noh in English "Blue Moon Over Memphis" performance, first showcased at UCLA in 2018, will be performed at Waseda University's Okuma Auditorium 7/19 & 7/21! If you're in Tokyo, don't miss it! #noh www.waseda.jp/culture/news...

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柳井イニシアティブは2018 年にUCLAで開催した「英語能青い月のメンフィス（Blue Moon Over Memphis）公演」を 2024 年 7 月 19 日（金）大隈記念講堂及び 21 日（日）金剛能楽堂にて開催いたします。アメリカ人の劇作家 Deborah Brevoort氏によってエルビス・プレスリーを題材に書かれました。このユニークな伝統芸能を是非ご堪能ください！ www.waseda.jp/culture/news...

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Our benshi world tour may be over, but you can enjoy our incredible The World of the Benshi catalog! 🎞️✨ This book explores benshi history, ephemera, & the transnational journey of silent film with 300+ images from archives & collections around the world! yanai-initiative.ucla.edu/publication/...

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Exciting news regarding the work of our Director, Michael Emmerich, and the Bungaku Bideo project! newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ext...

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A literature & translation enthusiast in the Tokyo area? 📖 Register now for David Yang (UCLA)'s talk “Translating Franz Kafka into English by Way of Manga,” happening at Waseda 5/21, 2pm! Presented w/ support from Waseda International House of Literature. yanai-initiative.ucla.edu/event/openta...

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If you’re in the Los Angeles area you won’t want to miss this talk happening tomorrow by Yanai Visiting Graduate Researcher Noya Dalem (INALCO, Paris) “Textual Multilingualism in Japanese Contemporary Literature: A Comparison of Four Cases”! Details at: yanai-initiative.ucla.edu/event/a-pres...

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