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BREEZE #67

MAY, 2013: BREEZE ISSUE #67
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GREETING FROM THE DIRECTORPeople in Japan during early May are taking advantage of the so-called Golden Week and are travelingacross the country or simply relaxing at home in their extended spring breaks from their offices orschools. It is the best season of the year in Japan after a long cold winter!
In LA, the weather is also way too lovely to be working inside an office. Let's go out and enjoy the veryfirst Japanese Photography Exhibition at the Getty Museum, overlooking the pretty Malibu coastline. Evenin your neighborhood, you may find street banners of the famous black-and-white portrait of a farmer intraditional Mino (straw) Raincoat in snowy Niigata by Hiroshi Hamaya. The Exhibit will last for another few
months till August, so please visit and enjoy the ambiance of 1960s and 70s in Japan.
We are now getting ready for another busy summer with many programs being planned. Summer Day
Camp for Teens will return again to Little Tokyo after last year's successful launch. If your teenage kids
have not yet decided what to do this summer, please consider this unique Day Camp for a memorable
experience in Japanese culture and language.
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SUMMER DAY CAMP FOR TEENS: DISCOVER LITTLE TOKYOJULY 22ND - 26TH IN LITTLE TOKYOREGISTER NOW!
We provide an exciting opportunity for teenagers to interact directly with native speakers, on location inLittle Tokyo, Los Angeles. Designed for students with no prior Japanese language experience, this course
offers a great start for those planning to study Japanese. For 14-18 year-olds with no prior experience inlearning Japanese.

DIRECTORS' TALKYOUR HOMETOWN: THE POWER OF PLACE IN COMING-OF-AGE FILM
MAY 11TH AT JFLA AUDITORIUM
CLICK HERE TO RSVP (REQUIRED)
American Graffiti and California. Good Will Hunting and Boston. Strawberry Fields and Wakayama. Somefilms are synonymous with their locations. Award-winning directors Nobuhiko Obayashi and Takafumi Ota,making a special visit from Japan, will discuss the emotional power of setting in film, with a Q&A to follow.
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MAY JAPANEMA SCHEDULE
MATINEE @ NOON
5/1 "KAMUI GAIDEN"
5/8 "GOEMON"
5/22 "LEONIE"
5/29 "SUCCESSIONAL TRADITION OF NOH"EVENING @ 7PM
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JAPAN'S MODERN DIVIDE:THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIROSHI HAMAYA AND KANSUKE YAMAMOTOMARCH 26TH - AUGUST 25TH AT THE GETTY MUSEUMThis exhibition presents the work of two 20th-century photographers, Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke
Yamamoto, who represent important but alternate paths in Japanese photography.
Read MoreJAPAN FILM FESTIVAL - LOS ANGELES
MAY 11TH - 26TH, 2013
TICKETS REQUIREDThis festival was started in 2003 as the Chanoma Film Festival, and has been a vanguard event dedicatedto strengthening the general understanding of Japanese culture by providing American and Japaneseaudiences in Los Angeles cutting-edge, original films depicting authentic representations of contemporary
Japan. For 2013, there will be two screenings at the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, on Saturday, May 11th,and Wednesday, May 15th. For tickets, please visit their website below.
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INTERNATIONAL MANGA AWARDCALL FOR APPLICANTS
DEADLINE: MAY 31ST, 2013
The International MANGA Award was established in May 2007 upon the initiative of then-Minister for
Foreign Affairs Mr. Taro Aso with the aim of awarding MANGA creators who contribute to the spread ofMANGA culture overseas. It has been held every year since its establishment. This year as well, theSeventh International MANGA Award Executive Committee decided to hold the Seventh InternationalMANGA Award.

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NEW ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE 2013 JLPTStarting in 2013, the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) will take over all test
administration roles for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in the United States. All inquiries should
be made to AATJ from this point forward as we work together to make this transition as seamless aspossible. With their resources, we hope they will be able to improve the overall testing experience.
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2013-2014 JAPANESE LANGUAGE GRANTS
In mid-February, we announced the start of several grant programs that we organize annually in support ofJapanese-Language Education in the United States. The remaining grants include the Japanese Language
Contest Grant (2nd Deadline: 9/3/2013), Japanese- Materials Purchase Grant (2nd Deadline: 9/16/2013) andJapanese-Language Education Grant (Deadline: 2 months prior to project start date).
Read MoreJFLA EVENT REPORTS
This month, we feature two write ups covering recent events at JFLA. They include D ō butsu Sh ō gi withJapanese master, Madoka Kitao and Classical Japanese Dance and Make-up featuring Masaka Nishikawa
and Kirk Nishikawa Dixon. We really appreciate Alexander and Colin for taking the time to report on theseevents.
Dōbutsu Shōgi

Classical Japanese Dance and Make-up

NEW INFORMATION CENTER ACQUISITIONS
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The link below contains a lists of new materials we received in our information center. They are divided
into four categories including Children's Books, Books in English, Kamishibai, and DVDs. Please make sureto visit soon to barrow the new materials. Our annualy library membership fee is only $2!

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