Japanese Culture Week at ONU

The grant from the Ohio Humanities Council allowed HPJ and the Japan Camp to sponsor its first Japanese Culture Week at ONU. 

The week consisted of presentations by Yasue Sakaoka, an artist from Columbus presenting on the role of animals in Japanese folklore, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu of Michigan State University presenting on her book Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in War and Peace (2012), and Parks Coble of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (seen here with Crawford) presented on "Why Are They Still Fighting WWII in East Asia?" to end the week. 

The week also included the screening of Yojimbo, a film by Kurosawa Akira, and presentation of posters that the Japan campers had created.