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moDOCURENT RESUME ED 110 002 95 IR 002,270- . , . , TITLE Film Resources [on Japan.. -40 INSTITUTION. MichiganUniv., An Arbor. Audio-oVisual Education Center.; Office of Education.(DHEW) Washington, D.C. -0-Div. of Intereational Education. REPOT NO P0-,0-75-0002 k "75 et 7 PUB DATE ; . NQTE- 59p. , AVAILABLE FRON Superintende of Doduments, U.S. GovernmentPrinting Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 .($1.20) . Eils PRICE NF-$0.76 HC-$3.32 PLUS P GE 1DECRIPTORS Audiovisual Aids; *Catal 40; *Educational Resources; _ i Film Peoduction; *Filss; *Filmstrips; *Foreign edia4 Ness:Media . Language Fills; instructional 1 .......,1, ,IDENTIFI FS. 0 *Japan . 4ASTRACT 7 A Sixteen millimeter motion pictures 4eali gwith Japan are' listed alRhabeticolly by titleand annotated. Ldhgth of-film, ° whether color or black ancf.white, and name ofproducet AZ distributor is given for each,, and'a subject index is provieh. Iilms produced before 1960, ustqnsored'fils,s, and 35 mmfilmotrips are,listed without annotations. A list of distributors is includ'ed. (SK) fr.,. Q v ********************************************************************** .Documents acquired by'ERIC include myinformal unpublished *,4Atecials not available from other sources,.ERIC takes every effort.* * to obtain the best copy available.nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered andthis affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopyreproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document ReproductionService (!DRS). EDRS is not '* responsible for the quality of theoriginal document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can bemade from the original. * *********************************************************************** a 0 ) 1 d FILM RESOURCESON JAPNIT lf Et prepared by pTNE UNIVERSITY OF AlftNICAN AUDIO-VIS1181 EDUCATIONCENTER ANN MON, 1114COIGAN , O al lb .1e DIPARMINT 1.11ALTH. IBOUCA11011111VSLPAIAS NATIONAL INSTITUTION' EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION OR ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE SEHT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION 0* POLICY 9 S. 0 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,EDUCATION AND WELFARE Caspar W. Weinberger; Secretary Virginia Y. Trotter, Assistant Secretary for Education (1 Officqof Education "-c..,_ ZA .T., H. &it, Commissioner H Robert Leestma, Associate Commissioner for InstiNtionalpeuelopment and internationalEducation 2/3 S 4 1 0 Prepared by the' University of Miehigan, ss Audio - Visual Education Center,Antr Arbor, , . pursuant to a contract with 'the,..h ,-: of Education, LIS.Oepartinelit4a,,,ttindth, Education, and Welfare. a I 0 0', 1 . wj av C 4 0 .4 .. 4 O u , .4S A- r, U. S. GOVERNMENT PRISING OFFICE 1-- WASHINGTON: 191S.,,,. 5* A 7 , V For sta by the Superintendent of Documents, 'U.S. Deiemment l'rintIng Office, vidhitigtoti, DAf. 20402 V&A, $120 4. s f 41+ 41 Japan is clearly one of the maker nations in the world today.With its rich Cultural heritage, its remarkable record of national development, its achievementsin science and technology, and irs status asan industrial arfd world trade power ofthe first rank, Japan' appears destined to remain a significantforce in world affairs for the foresfeaqle future. It is also a country of speCial importance to thettnitid States. s -Art, ,Despite the foregoing facts, the treatment of Japan inAmerican education at every levelelementary, secondary;collecje, and adultremains inadequate inthe majority of , institutions, programs and classrooms. Whit l interest in learning about Japan hasin- creased'in recent years and some important pftress has beenmade in Japanese studies, deVoted to Japan in . contrderable deficiencies sttlt- remaimin the time and attention American education. The U.S. Office of Education has long been concernedwith fostering international understanding through edticati6n. As part of its contributiontoward, helping modern- izeAmeriw education to reflect more adequately theincreasingly interdependent world in tlIrch we live, USOE'sDivisiotolintemational Education: is helping to expand and 'mprove Japanese studies in 'a variety of ways. Itsactivitiee4lude sponsorship of stuesof. status, needs, and priorities; aid to JapaneseJ language and area studies pro- s in several U.S. colleges anduniversities, each now with some responsibility,for }assisting'assisting related development in elementary, secondaryvend teachereducation; fellow- ships forigiadbate students and faculty members forresearch and training in Japanese .,; studies, including opportunities forintensive advancedlanguage training in Moan;, sponsorship of the preparation of instructional materialsand research monographs; and publication of studies on education in Japan.' The Office of Education is also cooperating closely with theJapanese Ministry of Education and the East-West Center in a combined effortwithin the frameworic of CULCON0 the ipecial United States -Japan Joint Committee onCultural and Education- al Cooperation, to increase mutual understanding betweenthe United States and Japan throtigh tie improvement al curriculum methods and materials inelementary and sec- ondary education in both countries. This directory of tam resourcesabout Japan is one pf several USOE contributions to the objectives of CO LCON and represents oneof the activities in direct support of CULCON's Joint Syb-Committee onduration for Inter- national Understanding.The chairman of the U.S. Sub-Committee is Dr. A.raja Phillips, Superintendent of Public Instruction" of theState of 'North Carotin The chairman of the ,Japanese Sub-Committee is,,Dr.Isio Amagi, Special Adviser the Minister of Education of Japan. Ii , .Gotta teachers have long known the effectiveness of the multisensory approach to teaching and learning. Words and bOoks alone are not enough. When 'available, good 'films and filmstrips along with'-other audio-visual materials either on the classroom screen or the television.tube can make powerful contributions to learning about other nations, other peoples, other ways of life. IOW The visual and the visual in motion with sound and color can give Meaning to 'verbal abstractions, can carry the learner beyond the limilationsol.the printedpage in- . tb more of a first-hand encounter with the dynamics of another culture. Such materials can help make facts and concepts more teachable as well as more memorable. They - . bothfacilOte andenrich the learningprocess, They can help add insight as- well as empathy to' historical ;chronology, to 'the consideration of other, traditional course elements, and to problem solving. They thereby-enable the Student to develop a more' accurate and rounded sense of reality.In short, films, filmstrip.:, and sjmilar material enable the learner to enter and' experience thg of culturimore directly ancifully. Thus they can contribute greatly to broadening and deepening intercultural under- standing. '40 Heretofore there has been a widespread lack of knowledge about how many and what kind ,of film materials about Japed" are available in the United States... The questions of amount and content coverage of existing items are largely answered by this inventory.Far more exist' than yiyone 'realized. The over`500 films and filmstrips w% listed in the following pages repret as:04gal of instructional resources to be mined by the splousieacher, curriculum developer, and educatiopal media Coordinator. The . exact nature, adequacy, and range of utility. of- these various items'can naw be deter- gait `1 Mined by evaluation on a case-by-Case basis. , 4 It . 1 . e '-'' It t / t Commendation is due .Ford L. Lemler, Director of the Atidio-Visual Education Center of'The University of Michigan, and his staff for their conscientious, tireless effort to search out and bring together all of this information in the well-organized and usable fashion you have here. They have perYormed a signal service on behalf ocimproving the teaching and learning about Japan in American education. Hopefully, the inventorycan e - be updated periodically as new film materials enter. .circulation and educational need requires e ; Ikl.' 4 4 A * 0 0 While this extensive inventory is a tery important' first step in making information about 4ilm materials on Japan more widely available, it mutt be etiiphiiized that this is et` a desqriptive inventory prepared from' available information; it does not includeicritical C evaluation. The evaluation of the usefulriess of each item far the various purposes of different users remains,the responsibility Of the users. As always, previewing before use or purChase is strongly recommended. 1 6 yr. 'Or*iginally it was our hope that this initial publication would contain evaluative judgments as welt as descriptive information, but as the large amount and wide range of materials began to be uncovered, the original, plan was no longer feasible within the scheduled date of publication for.reasons of both time and money. We °therefore decided to coocentrate 'on the necessary firststeps completing this comprehensivtinventory of availabl Materials. The task of evaluation remains a worthy challenge for/the combined efforts of specialists in Japanese studied and specialists in curriculum materials,methatik 5, and media utiliz'atibn. With the availability of the inventory the stage. is now setforAii- . terested partieskto organize an appropriate cooperativeeffdto evaluate the.variaus items some systematic fashion.1,- Especially iri some subject areas a.jointAmerican- Jdpanese team might