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The Harvard Club of Japan, in collaboration with TUJ's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies presents:
Going Abroad for Education - Meiji Era and Now

Date: Friday, February 4, 2011
Time: 6:30p.m. (Talk will start at 7:00p.m.)
Venue: Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall
212/213
2-8-12, Minami azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo (access:
www.tuj.ac.jp/maps)

Speaker: Seijiro Koyama
Moderator: Kyle Cleveland, Temple University Japan
Campus
Admission: Free (Open to general public)
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Outline

Director's Talk by Seijiro Koyama on his dramatic film "Gakko Wo Tsukuro" about the founding of Senshu University and discussion with members of U.S. College Alumni Network of Japan (USCANJ).

Four samurai in the Meiji Era went abroad to study in the USA one at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Rutgersand returned home to found Senshu Daigaku 130 years ago.

Seijiro Koyama, director of numerous films including the megahit "Hachiko Mongatari" in 1987, will speak about his period drama film Gakko Wo Tsukuro (Let's Create a School) depicting this story, a story that is highly resonant today when we read articles every week about the decline in Japanese students studying abroad, and the need to make Japanese education more relevant and globally competitive.

The film, which will be released in commercial theaters in Japan in mid-February, does not yet have English subtitles, so we will show a ten minute trailer with English narration and hear directly from the director with an interpreter provided. Brief location shots of period buildings on the campuses of Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Rutgers are used in the film.

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Robert Dujarric
Director
Kyle Cleveland
Associate Director
Eriko Kawaguchi
Coordinator

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