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SUMMARY:Lecture: Planning for Smart Cities in Japan
DESCRIPTION:A Lecture by Prof. Hidefumi Imura \nCo-organized by The Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) and The Japan Foundation\, Toronto with support from The Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies\, The Asian Institute at The Munk School of Global Affairs\, University of Toronto  \nPlease note that the venue has changed to Galbraith Building\, Room 120\,  35 St. George Street \nMany cities in the world are undertaking initiatives to improve environmental performance. The ‘Smart City’ concept and approach are exactly in line with this challenge to make urban areas sustainable through innovative technologies and plans to promote efficient energy use\, recycling and environmentally friendly traffic management. Yokohama and Kitakyushu are examples of cities that are actively working to become smarter. They are linking environmental policies with policies relating to economic revitalization\, urban planning\, health\, and welfare\, particularly post 3/11. They are also promoting cooperation with other Asian cities to share environmental management experience and knowledge. \nProfessor Imura will discuss shifts in Japanese perspectives on energy management and smart technology investment\, not only for the creation of low-carbon cities and a green economy\, but also for disaster recovery. \n \nAbout the Speaker: \nHidefumi Imura is Professor at the Global Cooperation Institute for Sustainable Cities of Yokohama City University and Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University\, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.  He received his PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo\, and has subsequently worked for the Japan Environment Agency\, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Yokohama Municipal Government. \nProfessor Imura has a wide range of expertise covering domestic and international environmental policy issues\, environmental technologies and economics in Japan\, China\, and other East Asian regions. His research centers on energy and material flow analysis of human activities in cities\, life cycle assessment of civil infrastructures\, and modeling of human and environmental interactions. \n  \nRelated events: \nVancouver \nPlanning for Smart Cities in Japan – a lecture by Prof. H. Imura\nMarch 1\, 2016  12:30-2:00\nUBC Institute of Asian Research Room 120\nCK Choi Building 1855 West Mall
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LOCATION:Galbraith Building\, Room 120\, 35 St. George St. (University of Toronto)\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1A4
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SUMMARY:トロントガイドを作ろう！Let's Make a Toronto Guide!
DESCRIPTION:If you’re looking for a way to combine your love of Toronto with your love of learning Japanese\, this is the class for you! For late-beginner / intermediate students of Japanese\, what better way to meet other learners at your level\, practice your Japanese\, and sharpen your writing skills than coming together to create a Japanese-language Toronto Travel Guide! \nDates: March 3rd\, 10th\, 17th\, & 24th\nOver this 4 week course\, running Thursday nights from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM\, students will first learn about what it takes to create a travel guide in Japanese\, and then in the later half of the class use those skills to showcase Toronto to the world! \n\n※ As each class builds upon the previous week\, students are encouraged to attend all 4 nights. \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/toronto-guide/2016-03-03/
LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, Room B-1\, 789 Yonge Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4W 2G8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Japanese Movie Screening in Hamilton: The Vancouver Asahi
DESCRIPTION:presented The Japan Foundation in cooperation with the Hamilton Public Library \nThis drama by award-winning director Yuya Ishii (The Great Passage) is based on the true story of the Vancouver Asahi\, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was established in 1914 and rose to prominence in 1920s and 1930s. Playing a strategic game\, dubbed “brain ball\,” they used their unique strengths to defeat their larger and stronger European-Canadian opponents. Despite  success and popularity\, the Asahi faced discrimination and\, during WWII\, internment due to their Japanese heritage. The Vancouver Asahi won the People’s Choice Award at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival\, and screened at the 2015 Toronto Japanese Film Festival. \nDirected by Yuya Ishii\n2014\, 132 minutes \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/vancouver-asahi-hamilton/
LOCATION:Hamilton Central Public Library\, 55 York Boulevard\, Hamilton Room\, Hamilton\, Ontario\, L8N 4E4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Hamilton Dialogues: About the Pink Sky
DESCRIPTION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is proud to partner for the first time with the Hamilton Dialogues to present a free screening of About the Pink Sky\n preceded by the animated short Chameko’s Day (1931\, 7  minutes) \nKobayashi Keiichi’s feature debut is a fresh evocation of a high school girl’s life\, filmed with beautiful black and white cinematography. Izumi\, a high school student who enjoys fishing\, bowling and grading newspaper articles based on their level of positivity\, finds a lost wallet containing a large sum of cash. She uses it to help out  a middle-aged fishing buddy and treat her friends to lunch before she trying to find the wallet’s owner\, a wealthy high school student. To repay her debt\, he asks her help him cheer up a hospitalized friend by publishing a special newspaper that only contains good news. \n\nDirected by Keiichi Kobayashi\n 2011\, 113 minutes \nBest Picture\, Japanese Eyes Section\, Tokyo International Film Festival\nOfficial Selection\, Sundance Film Festival\nOfficial Selection\, International Film Festival Rotterdam \n\nAbout the Hamilton Dialogues:\nThe Hamilton Dialogues is a community group passionate about culture\, politics and community building. website
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LOCATION:Perkins Centre\, 1429 Main Street East\, Hamilton\, ON\, L8K 1C2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Give the Pilgrims What They Want - The Emergence of Special Interest Tourism in Canada & Japan
DESCRIPTION:Organized by: The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\nSupported by: Ted Rogers School of Management & Ryerson University; Renison University College\, University of Waterloo; Centre for Japanese Research\, University of British Columbia \nNot able to escape Toronto’s cold and slush this season? Don’t despair. The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is offering an exciting substitute to airplane or even armchair travel: a Travel Lecture Series. In each installment\, a pair of speakers will address a particular travel-related issue from both a Canadian and a Japanese perspective. Coming up in March are talks about Special Interest Tourism and Travel Writing. We hope to see you there. \nFor the first installment of our Travel Lecture series\, The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to present an evening of talks about the emergence of special interest tourism in Canada and Japan. Whether at the whim of private enterprise or at the behest of a national government\, theme-based tourism as a means to attract certain individuals to a particular place is a winning strategy in many countries. \nPop Culture\, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan – Prof. Philip Seaton \nSince 2005\, the Japanese government has actively encouraged local authorities to develop tourism related to works of popular culture such as manga\, anime and computer games as a way of enhancing their local identity and brand\, a phenomenon known in Japanese as “Contents Tourism.” This lecture presents examples of booms in pop culture-inspired tourism to heritage sites historically linked to the Sengoku\, Meiji and Showa periods\, which indicate the power of popular culture\, not only to inspire tourism\, but also to generate new perspectives on Japan’s past. \nThe Evolution of Culinary Tourism in Niagara: A Product to Rebuild the Japanese Market? – Prof. David J. Telfer \nThe Niagara Region is rebranding itself beyond Niagara Falls into a wine and culinary destination. Regional food and wine based on a growing number of wineries\, restaurants\, icewine festivals\, farmer’s markets\, micro-breweries\, celebrity chefs\, and cooking schools are all contributing to tourism diversification. This lecture will examine the evolution of Niagara Culinary Tourism and present recent initiatives by the Canadian Tourism Commission to rebuild the Japanese market including its focus on food\, a product in which Niagara is becoming a national leader. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nOriginally from the UK\, Philip Seaton has lived in Japan for close to 20 years. He is a Professor at the Office of International Affairs/International Student Center at Hokkaido University in Japan\, where he is convener of the Modern Japanese Studies Program. He holds a degree in History from Cambridge University\, as well as a Master’s Degree in International Relations and a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex. His research interests include history and memory\, local history and society in Hokkaido\, and contents tourism. \nDavid Telfer is an Associate Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Tourism Management at Brock University and a member of the Brock Environmental Sustainability Research Centre. He has researched and published extensively on issues related to tourism in both Canada and Japan. \n\nRelated lectures:  \nWaterloo\nPop Culture\, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan – A lecture by Prof. Philip Seaton\, Hokkaido University\nThursday March 10\,  6:30 – 8 pm\nRoom REN 2106\, Renison University College\, University of Waterloo\nDETAILS\nRSVP:      EAS@uwaterloo.ca              519-884-4400 x28645 \n  \nVancouver\nPop Culture\, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan – A lecture by Prof. Philip Seaton\, Hokkaido University\nMonday\, March 14\,  3:00 – 5:00 pm\nRoom 604\, Asian Centre\, Centre for Japanese Research\, University of British Columbia\nLink: http://www.iar.ubc.ca/Centres/cjr/EventsandSeminars.aspx
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LOCATION:Ted Rogers School of Management\, Ryerson University\, Room TRS 1-147\, 55 Dundas St. W.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5G 2C3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Edo Music at the ROM
DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy traditional Japanese music known as Ohayashi\, which has accompanied Japanese festivals and theatre since ancient times. \nSaturday\, March 12 and Sunday\, March 13\nTimes: 11:30 am\, 1:30 pm\, and 3:00 pm (3 times on both days. Each performance is for 20 minutes.) \nPlace: Peter F. Bronfman Hall (2nd floor\, the Royal Ontario Museum) \nAdmission: Free with admission to the museum.
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/edo-music-at-the-rom/
LOCATION:Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)\, 100 Queen’s Park  \, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Japanese Movies at Innis: Rent-a-Cat
DESCRIPTION:Sayoko\, single and in her thirties\, lives alone in her  traditional Japanese house- alone\, that is\, except for the many cats who are inexplicably drawn into her orbit. She passes her time tending to her house\, taking care of the family altar of her beloved grandmother\, and engaging in eclectic entrepreneurial projects\, including renting out cats to lonely people. Like director Naoko Ogigami’s Kamome Diner and Megane\, Rent-a-Cat  is a beautifully filmed\, low-key comedy that celebrates its iconoclastic characters with offbeat humour. \nDirected by Naoko Ogigami\n2011\,110 minutes \nPlease note that food and drink (except for water bottles) are strictly prohibited in the Innis Town Hall Theatre. Thank you for your cooperation. \nReservations are now closed. Thank you for your interest! \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/japanese-movies-at-innis-rent-a-cat-2/
LOCATION:Innis Town Hall\, 2 Sussex Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1J5
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160320T133000
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SUMMARY:Teacher Workshop: "Activities – “Is that really ok?”: The role of the teacher in the classroom and the distance between teacher and learner"
DESCRIPTION:国際交流基金トロント日本文化センター\n日本語教師研修のお知らせ\n国際交流基金トロント日本文化センター（The Japan Foundation\, Toronto 以下、JFT）では、トロント近郊の日本語の先生方が日本語の教え方について学び合うことのできる場の提供を目指し、2015年度、全3回の日本語教師研修を実施いたします。第3回目は、国際交流基金派遣日本語上級専門家による「授業でのクラスアクティビティ」をメインテーマとしたワークショップを実施いたします。日本語教育にご興味をお持ちの方なら、どなたにもご参加いただける内容ですので、皆さま奮ってご参加ください。ご参加をご希望の方は以下よりお申込みください。 \n記 \nテーマ：それでいい？アクティビティ　－教室における教師の役割と学習者との距離\n今回のワークショップでは日々の学習活動の中に多く取り入れられているクラスアクティビティに注目します。現在行っている教室活動を振り返り、その内容について参加者とともに検証をします。学習者の多くはインターネットやパソコンが普及した環境で育った世代（いわゆる「デジタルネイティブ」）で、いまや教室外で多くの知識を得ることができます。そのような現状で教室にやってくる学習者に対して、教師はどのような役割を担えるのか。デジタルコンテンツの扱い方もふまえて、アクティビティの内容や種別、効果的に実施するためにどうしたらいいのかを一緒に考えてみたいと思います。 \n日時：2016年3月20日（日）　午後1時30分～午後4時30分\n開場：午後1時00分\n会場：トロント大学 (St. George Campus) OISE 2296 (2階)\n252 Bloor Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\n参加費：無料 \n講師：齊藤真美（国際交流基金派遣日本語上級専門家、アルバータ州教育省日本語教育アドバイザー） \n本研修に関するお問い合わせ先：齋藤典子　nsaito@jftor.org  416‐966‐1600 ext 224 \n\n  \nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto (JFT)\nWorkshop for Japanese-Language Teachers\nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto (JFT) will hold three workshops in fiscal 2015\, which aim to provide a place for teachers to learn together about teaching the Japanese language. The third workshop\, suitable for anyone who is interested in teaching Japanese\, will deal with classroom activities and will be run by Ms. Mami Saito\, Japanese-Language Education Advisor at Alberta Education. Please join us! \nFor registration\, please see below. \nTheme: Activities – “Is that really ok?”:\nThe role of the teacher in the classroom and the distance between teacher and learner\nIn this workshop\, we will focus on classroom activities which are often incorporated into day-to-day learning activities. We will reflect on the activities currently being performed\, and examine their content as a group. Many learners these days are people who were born or brought up during the age of digital / internet technology (so called “digital natives”) and can attain a wide range of knowledge outside the classroom. What kind of role can teachers play for such learners? In the context of dealing with this digital content\, let’s think together on the content and type of activities\, and how we can conduct activities so that they are carried out effectively. \nDate and Time: Sunday\, March 20\, 2016     1:30 pm – 4:30 pm\nDoors open at 1:00 pm\nLocation: OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) Room 2296 (Second Floor)\nUniversity of Toronto (St. George Campus)\, 252 Bloor Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\nRegistration Fee: Free \nInstructor: Mami Saito\nJapanese-Language Education Advisor\, Alberta Education (sponsored by the Japan Foundation) \nFor inquiries: Noriko Saito  nsaito@jftor.org or 416-966-1600 ext. 224
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/jft3workshop/
LOCATION:OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)\, University of Toronto\, Room 2296\, Second Floor\, 252 Bloor Street West\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1V6
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SUMMARY:The Journey is My Home - Early Travel Writing in Canada & Japan
DESCRIPTION:Not able to escape Toronto’s cold and slush this season? Don’t despair. The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is offering an exciting substitute to airplane or even armchair travel: a Travel Lecture Series. In each installment\, a pair of speakers will address a particular travel-related issue from both a Canadian and a Japanese perspective. Coming up in March are talks about Special Interest Tourism and Travel Writing. We hope to see you there. \nFor the second installment of our Travel Lecture series\, The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to present a pair of lectures about early travel writing in Japan and Canada. Although separated by great distance and in some cases great periods of time\, ‘writing’ their landscapes\, both to claim the land and to present it to others\, was a preoccupation for authors in both cultures. \nWanderers in a Distant Country: Re-imagining Canadian Spaces in Catharine Parr Traill & Susanna Moodie – Prof. S. Bailey \nSusanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush (1852) and Catharine Parr Traill’s The Backwoods of Canada (1836) are considered foundational works in Canadian literary history\, representing an early narrative tradition grounded in accounts of pioneer life and exploration. Both sisters published in mainstream literary periodicals in Britain prior to immigrating\, and both wrote extensively for British and American markets while living in Canada. Moodie and Traill thus play a significant role in interpreting Canada for an international readership\, in addition to documenting their own progress in making a foreign space ‘home.’ Professor Bailey will trace the means by which Moodie and Traill ‘write’ the Canadian landscape both to attract transnational readers and to bind themselves to their new Canadian home: Traill\, through the language of scientific observation and natural history\, and Moodie\, through sentimental Romantic traditions. \nUnder Trees and Over Rocks: Travel Writing in Early Japan – Prof. K. Strand \nTravel was all the rage in early modern\, or Edo (1600-1868)\, Japan.  Its importance as a part of life is indicated by a range of works by major figures of medieval and early modern travel writing\, from the poetry of itinerant priest Saigyô (1118-1190) to the famous travel diary of Matsuo Bashô (1643-1693)\, Narrow Road to the Deep North (1693). But how did this interest arise? Professor Strand will explore the many different ways in which people of medieval and early modern Japan engaged in a culture of travel\, from writing diaries about official travel and pilgrimages to major sacred centres\, to consuming poetry and images of famous sites and locations throughout Japan. While traveling to compose poetry about famous places seems a benign endeavor\, a culture of travel writing developed as an act of inscribing new maps on the landscape\, and constructing a specific historical ideology. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nKendra Strand is a visiting professor of Japanese at St. Olaf College\, where she teaches Japanese language\, literature\, and culture. She received her PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of Michigan. In her dissertation\, she translates four travel diaries by political elites in the fourteenth century\, and examines how landscape and travel are used in the diaries to address issues of social and political authority. Her research focuses on pre-modern Japanese travel writing\, poetry\, and visual culture. She is also interested in representations of Japanese history in contemporary literature and popular culture. \n  \n  \n  \nSuzanne Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at Trent University. She is also a member of Trent’s Public Texts (English) MA program\, and at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. She teaches a range of courses\, from Victorian literature and culture to contemporary travel writing and women’s writing. Her research centres on how we come to know what we know\, and how we can learn to see and understand the value of other stories and perspectives. \n  \n  \n  \n\nRelated events: \nPeterborough\nUnder Trees and Over Rocks: Travel Writing in Early Japan – A lecture by Professor Kendra Strand\nTuesday\, March 22   3:00-4:00 pm\nThe Pit\, Lady Eaton College\n1600 West Bank Drive\, Peterborough ON K9L 1Z6\nAdmission: Free \n  \nOrganized by:\nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto\nWith support from:\nUniversity of Toronto Libraries\nTrent University: Department of English Literature\, Department of History\, Public Texts (English) MA Program\, Lady Eaton College\, Trent International Program \n \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Blackburn Room\, 4th Floor\, Robarts Library\, 130 St. George St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1A5\, Canada
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