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FEBRUARY, 2013: BREEZE ISSUE #64
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GREETING FROM THE DIRECTOR

We will be sending out JLPT score reports this month to everyone who took the test back in December. I’msure most of you have already checked your scores online by now so hopefully you were able to receive agood score. And for those who did not reach your goal, I hope you will continue studying Japanese aspart of your future studies and career.
In January, we organized two lecture series on Paro and the Current Conditions of Fukushima and had
many people in attendance. During February, which is Academy Awards season in Los Angeles, we will
invite Roland Kelts who frequently travels between New York and Tokyo to talk about Japanese Anime andHollywood. This will be an academic lecture covering a broad range of topics including subculture, whichis well received in many places. Finally, we will invite Aiko Doden, a long-time newscaster who covers
international problems for the only public broadcaster in Japan NHK will talk about a range of topics fromher opinions of Asia to Japan American relations. She is said to be the Japanese Barbara Walters and is awell-respected journalist. I hope you will be able to join us for our lecture series.
Misako Ito, Director

2013 JET MEMORIAL INVITATION PROGRAM (JET-MIP) ANNOUNCEMENT
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This is a reminder to all Japanese language teachers that the application period for the National Japanese
Exam (NJE) will end on Friday, February 8th, 2013 at 5:00PM Eastern Time. If you plan to submit anapplication for the 2013 JET Memorial Invitation Program (JET-MIP), please make sure your candidate isregistered to take this exam. NJE is a requirement for JET-MIP and we will not accept applications without
a NJE score.

JFLA EXHIBIT: HINAMATSURI (JAPANESE DOLL FESTIVAL)FEBRUARY 5TH THROUGH MARCH 9TH
In celebration of Hinamatsuri, also known as Japanese Doll Festival or Girls' Day, which is held on March3, we will be displaying our Hina-ningyo (Japanese doll) set in our meeting room for the month of February
and the first week of March. This custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period (8-10th centuryAD) when people believed that the dolls possessed the power to contain evil spirits.
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JFLA LECTURE SERIES 4: ANIME AND HOLLYWOOD
BY ROLAND KELTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 7:00PM STARTThe Japan Foundation, Los Angeles invites Roland Kelts, author of “Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop
Culture Has Invaded the U.S.,” to discuss his views on Anime, its influences on Hollywood, and vice-versa.
Please make sure to join us as we dwell into the colorful and eccentric world of the entertainment industry
on both sides of the Pacific.
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Privacy - TermsJFLA LECTURE SERIES 5: FROM ASIAN VOICE - HOW TO READ US-JAPAN RELATION IN2013
BY AIKO DODENFRIDAY, MARCH 1ST, 7PM-8:30PM
CO-ORGANIZED BY LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL & LOS ANGELES WORLDAFFAIRS COUNCIL YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
Please join us as we explore the US Japan Relationship in 2013 with Aiko Doden, senior commentator oninternational affairs at NHK.
Read MoreJANUARY JAPANEMA SCHEDULE
2/13 "ECLAIR FOR OUR FUTURE, FOR CHILDREN">
2/6 "SETTING SAIL FROM THE RUINS"
2/13 "JAPAN AFTER 3.11"
2/20 "LIGHT UP NIPPON"
2/27 "CAN YOU SEE OUR LIGHTS? FIRST FESTIVAL AFTER THE TSUNAMI"

2012 JLPT RESULTS
Official results for the 2012 JLPT will be sent out by the end of February. You can also view your scores
online now so please visit the link below for instructions. Please note that online scores will only beavailable until March 15, 2013 at 5:00PM (Japan Time). Also your online JLPT account will be deleted on
March 29th so you will not be able to login after that date. The next JLPT will be in December of 2013 andwe will have more information in July so make sure to check back then.
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PHOTO EXHIBITION: NIPPON THROUGH MY EYESWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23RD - TUESDAY, MARCH 12TH
JAPAN INFORMATION AND CULTURE CENTER (WASHINGTON, DC)
Nippon Through My Eyes: Japan as Seen by American Students is an exhibit of photographs taken by 32
American high school students during The Japan Foundation's JET Memorial Invitation Program (JET-MIP)
last summer.

CHRONICLES OF INFERNO: JAPAN'S ART THEATER GUILDPFA THEATRE (BERKELEY, CA)FEBRUARY 7 - 27, 2013
Originally created in 1961 to distribute European art films, Japan's Art Theater Guild (or ATG) began
producing their own independent films in 1967, and soon unleashed a string of experimental, innovative,
and highly controversial works that would challenge not only postwar Japanese society, but cinema itself.
ATG captured the pulse of Japan's blistering underground movements and cultural schisms, tackling
everything from queer pride to the after-effects of World War II, communist radicalism to Situationist
theater, pornography to politics. "We are going to war! Smash it all!" cries a revolutionary in Koji
Wakamatsu's incendiary cine-assault, Ecstasy of the Angels; ATG aimed to do just that, with film as its mainweapon.

2012 JET MEMORIAL INVITATION PROGRAM REPORT PART 7: RETURN TO OSAKA
It had been exactly one week since we arrived in Japan and we had just completed the core part of theprogram by visiting the cities of Rikuzentakata and Ishinomaki where Montgomery Dickson and Taylor
Anderson were assigned during their assignment as JET Assistant Language Teachers. It was a tough few
days for the participants while in the Tohoku region as we witnessed the remnants of the cities destroyedby the tsunami.
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2012 JET MEMORIAL INVITATION PROGRAM: PARTICIPANT ESSAYS PART 6
This is the sixth part of an eight part series that will highlight the experiences of 32 participants of the2012 JET Memorial Invitational Program. Through this program, participants traveled to Japan in July of2012 for a two week study tour of the Tohoku area, focusing on the cities of Rikuzentakata and Ishinomaki.
These were the cities that Montgomery Dickson and Taylor Anderson were assigned to during their tenureas JET Assistant English Teachers. Sadly, they lost their lives during the Great East Japan Earthquake andTsunami in March, 2011 and this program was created to commemorate their work. Participants took part inexchanges with local elementary, and high school students as well as local community members with thepurpose of fostering friendship and goodwill between both countries. This month, we will be featuring theessays of the following participants:
Maylin Chong
Rebecca Lee
Ruby Cabuya
Samantha Gamble

J-LEAP REPORT: PART 4
For the 2012-2013, we invited 10 additional teaching assistants to various schools around the country as
part of the Japanese Language Education Assistant Program (J-LEAP). We have been featuring reports
from all the participants describing their experiences as teaching assistants at American high schools. Thismonth, we will introduce the following TAs:Chieko Yamada: Maloney Interdistrict Magnet School in Waterbury, CT
Minako Kadoi: Greenway High School and Washington High School in Phoenix, AZ

SAYONARA NIHEI
During the past seven years, Yoshihiro Nihei has been in charge of organizing Arts & Culture activities forthe 13 states west of the Rocky Mountains at the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles. He will be leaving theFoundation on February 1st, returning back to Japan with his family to start a new career as an event
planner. We thank him for his services to promoting cultural exchange between Japan and the UnitedStates and wish him luck in his future endeavors. An announcement will be made soon regarding Nihei'ssuccessor.
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