Japan Academy Prize Essays

  • Princess Mononoke Journey

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    In the movie Princess Mononoke, it follows the journey of the last Emishi prince, Ashitaka, and his attempts at making peace between the human settlement, Irontown, and the creatures living in the forest that surrounds it. The start of the movie begins with Ashitaka saving his village from a giant boar god who was embodied by rage. During the fight, Ashitaka receives a demon mark on his right arm , and is cursed by the boar god’s hatred and pain. Ashitaka travels far west to find a cure for his curse

  • Mamoru Hosoda: Animator and Director

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    rival those of Hayao Miyazaki, the most famous director and creator of Studio Ghibli. Hosoda was born on September 19, 1967 in the town of Nakaniikawa, Toyama, Japan. He grew up in Toyama Prefecture until his high school graduation when he was 18-year-old. Afterwards, he studied oil painting at the Kanazawa College of Art in Kanazawa, Japan. His interest in the film industry began since little, and by middle school he was producing 8mm camcorder movies. He was inspired by the classics from Disney

  • Biography of Robert Burns Woodward

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    Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry (1953-1960), and Donner Professor of Science since 1960. After all of these things that he did, it's no wonder why he was on his way to a Nobel prize in the near future. In 1963 he assumed direction of the Woodward Research Institute at Basel. In 1965 was when he recieved his Nobel prize for his outstanding achievments in organic synthesis. His studies brought knowledge to the world and opened doors for later scientists that were in his field of organic synthesis

  • Yasunari Kawabata

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    was the first Japanese person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His style combined elements of classic Japanese prose with modern psychological narrative and exploration of human sexuality. Deeply influenced by the culture of his homeland, his writings capture the vivid and melancholy beauty and spirituality of Japan, while his own experiences and studies contributed to his assay into emotion. Kawabata was born on June 11, 1899 in Osaka, Japan into a prosperous family; his father was a very

  • The Life of Hayao Miyazaki

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    Castle of Cagliostro in 1979. After producing many feature films and princess mononoki Miyazaki that was the highest-grossing film in Japan Miyazaki retired temporary in 1997. Miyazaki came back to the animation field strongly with his feature film Spirited Away, which won Picture of the year academy awards, and it was the first anime film to win an American Academy Awards. The Wind Rises was his final feature-length film after that Miyazaki announced it in the first of September 2013. Miyazaki’s

  • Olympic Wrestling History

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    philosopher, Plato, who won many prizes for wrestling as a young man. “Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.” His real name was Aristocles he was given the name Plato, meaning ”broad shoulders” because of his success wrestling. Wrestling also has been popular in the Orient for at least 20 centuries. Syndicated feature columnist L. M. Boyd has stated that the Kingdom of Japan was wagered on the outcome

  • A Blessing by James Arlington Wright

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    Swan Laundry. Both had to quit school in early teens to work. In 1946 graduated from high school as a Valedictorian and joined the U.S. Army. He trained in engineering school at Fort Lewis, Washington. He served 18 months in occupational forces in Japan. When he returned from the army he got enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He received M.A. degree and began to work on his Ph.D. at the same time he started teaching at University of Minnesota and later at MacAlester College. He received

  • Robert Venturi Contribution

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    he attended Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. Venturi graduated from Princeton summa cum laude in 1947. He also a member-elect of Phi Beta Kappa and won the D’Amato Prize in Architecture while there (The Nassau Herald). Venturi went onto receive his M.F.A. from Princeton as well in 1950. After graduating he worked briefly alongside Eero Saarinen in Michigan and then with Louis Kahn in Philidelphia. Venturi was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship for the American Academy in Rome in 1954. While

  • James Alan Mcpherson

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    including the University of California, Santa Cruz; Harvard University; the University of Virginia; and the University of Iowa, where he is currently a professor of English in the Writers' Workshop. McPherson was also given the opportunity to lecture in Japan at Meiji University and Chiba University.

  • Analysis Of The Film 'Confessions'

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    novel in the same title that won 2009 Japanese Booksellers Awards. The film had been celebrating its success commercially and received positive reviews from critics globally. Confessions also won Best Picture at the 34th Japan Academy Prize and was shortlisted at the 83rd academy awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film begin with the confession of Yuko Moriguchi. She was announcing her departure as a junior high school teacher to her students in class. She talks about the death of her four-years-old

  • John Griffith Chaney: Tragic Hero Or Whisper?

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    schooner, for a seven-month voyage along the Behring Sea and the Coast of Japan. In addition, that same year, under the persuasion of his mother, Jack entered a writing contest, competing against students from Stanford and University of California, and won first place, for which the prize was being published in the San Francisco Call and being rewarded with twenty-five dollars, with his essay “Story of a Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan”. Later, at the age of eighteen (1894), Jack worked to shovel coal,

  • The Legacy Of Stephen Sondheim And The American Musical Theatre

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    Sondheim was born in New York on March 22, 1930. His mother was a fashion designer, and his father a dress manufacturer. At age ten, Sondheim’s parents divorced, and he moved to rural Pennsylvania with his mother shortly after (“Stephen Sondheim- Academy of Achievement”). In Pennsylvania, Stephen befriended his neighbor, James Hammerstein, as well as James’ parents Dorothy and Oscar. The Hammersteins would become like a second family to Stephen. He especially admired Oscar, a musical theatre giant

  • The Philadelphia Orchestra Analysis

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    Their concert hall is at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, where they perform for their patrons during their main season, September to May, in Verizon Hall. This has become the orchestra’s performance hall since 2001, since they also own the Academy of Music, which is the oldest operating opera house in the nation since 1957. The orchestra also performs for its Philadelphia audiences during the summer at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. The orchestra was founded in 1900 by Fritz Scheel

  • Gary Snider the American Poet

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    Berkeley. Snyder used his summers to work in Baker National Forest and Yosemite National Park (www.english.uiuc.edu). While working in the forests he wrote some of his most famous poetry. In 1956, Snyder, goes to Japan on scholarship from the Firs Zen Institute of America. In Japan, he lived in the Zen Temple. A year later he began work on a tanker, as a wiper in the engine room. While on the ship Snyder continued... ... middle of paper ... ...dove. Only in a dream, he can see her face. He

  • Overview Of The Film Fat Man And Little Boy

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    through, it showed good leadership. Anyone who is interested in The Manhattan Project and the aftermath would enjoy watching this film. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who would be fascinated by the science used to create such a effect on Japan as well as America and the impact it had on the country.

  • Frank Gehry

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    com/people/bc/1999/10/05/gehry/print.html (2001 November 14). Frank Gehry: Architect. Guggenheim Museum. http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/gehry/biography.html (2001 November 14). Frank Gehry:Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 1989. Complete List of Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates 1979 – 2001 http://www.pritzkerprize.com/gehry.htm Picture Web Links: http://www.pritzkerprize.com/gehry/gehrypg.htm http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/gehry/ http://www.frank-gehry.com/projects

  • Flags Of Our Fathers Sparknotes

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    was a Major Motion Picture. The movie was released October 20, 2006. It was directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg. There was a screenplay in the movie written by William Broyles Jr., and Paul Haggins. The movie won the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film. James Bradley is an American author who specializes in historical nonfiction specifically, World War II.

  • Total Quality Management: Armand Vallin Feigenbaum

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    and CEO of General Systems Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, an international engineering company that designs and implements total quality systems, which he founded in 1968. He was also the founding chairman of the board of the International Academy for Quality, which brought together leaders of the European Organization for Quality, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, and American Society for Quality. He went on to become the President of the American Society for Quality from 1961

  • Steven Allan Spielberg and His Work

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    Perhaps one of the greatest if not the greatest director/producer in American film history is Steven Allan Spielberg. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time; his films having made nearly $8 billion internationally. As of 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. TIME magazine named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. At the end of the 20th century LIFE named him the most

  • Death By Hanging

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    9. Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Osima, 1960) Nagisa Oshima’s second feature film is a prime example of the Japanese New Wave, as it focuses on adolescent delinquency, the sexual revolution, and the failures of the post-war generation. Furthermore, it was his first commercial success and the one that introduced him to the rest of the world. Makoto, a high school student has the habit, along with her friends, to ask for car rides from middle-aged men. During one of those, a lecherous individual tries