* Kato Mikiro ( 1996 ) A History of Movie Theaters and Audiences in Postwar Kyoto, the Capital of Japanese Cinema.

* Japanese Cinema Database, maintained by the Agency for Cultural Affairs ( films after 1896, in Japanese )

* Resources for the Study of Japanese Cinema at the University of Iowa Library

* Japanese Reference Materials for Studying Japanese Cinema at Yale University by Aaron Gerow

Zhou herself was from a very poor background and in her youth had narrowly escaped a future in the sex trade, but she became one of China's iconic seven great singing stars on the strength of her performance, and the film became one of the last great hits of the First Golden Age of Chinese Cinema before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.

In 2011, the French director Yves Montmayeur produced a documentary about the Pink film period called Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome Of Japanese Erotic Cinema which tells of the Pink Film period at Nikkatsu.

In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films ( 1998 ), Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser gave the film a rating of two out of four stars.

Among the Ph. D. dissertations submitted are the following: Jacqueline Marx Etkins, " Wearing Propaganda: Civilian Textiles on the Japanese Home Front 1931-1945 with Reference to Britain and The United States ," ( 2006 ); Michelle Tolini Finamore, " Fashioning Early Cinema: Dress and Representation in American Film, 1905-1930 ," ( 2010 ); Stephanie Lake, " Bonnie Cashin: Fashion and Costume Design ca.

Later, Cinema Products sold their remaining Mitchell inventory to a Japanese company when the XR35 was challenged by competitors but still selling well.

* Japanese Cinema: An Introduction ( hardcover ).

* Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character ( paperback ).

" The Secret History of Japanese Cinema " is a retrospective section on Japanese film ( 1926 to 1978 ).

100 Years Of Japanese Cinema, 2003, Kodansha.

Currents In Japanese Cinema, 1982, Kodansha.

* Donald Richie: 100 Years Of Japanese Cinema, Kodansha, 2003.

" Comprehensive Connections: The Film Industry, the Theatre and the State in the Early Japanese Cinema ", Screening the Past 11, November 1.

* 1960 – Koji Kondo, Japanese composer

In 1960, Inejiro Asanuma, Chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, was assassinated in a stabbing by an extreme rightist.

For three decades from 1960, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

Although its constitution and government policy preclude an offensive military role for Japan in international affairs, Japanese cooperation with the United States through the 1960 U. S .– Japan Security Treaty has been important to the peace and stability of East Asia.

* 1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author

* 1960 – Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 63rd Yokozuna

* 1960 – Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese cartoonist

* 1889 – Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Junichi Sato, Japanese anime director

* 1960 – Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese race car driver

* 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan ' ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer

Since 1960, the U. S. and Japan have maintained an agreement that allows the U. S. to secretly bring nuclear weapons into Japanese ports, and there is speculation ( see below ) that some nuclear weapons may be located in Okinawa.

* 1960 – Aguri Suzuki, Japanese race car driver

** Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher ( d. 1960 )

* Japanese puppeteer Kinosuke Takeda produced three Supermarionation styled television series between 1960 and 1970 including Spaceship Silica, Galaxy Boy Troop and Aerial City 008.

was a Japanese politician and the 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan from 25 February 1957 to 12 June 1958 and from then to 19 July 1960.

Avant-garde writers, such as Kōbō Abe, who wrote fantastic novels such as Woman in the Dunes ( 1960 ), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions.

Archaeologist Junko Habu claims that " The majority of Japanese scholars believed, and still believe, that pottery production was first invented in mainland Asia and subsequently introduced into the Japanese archipelago ," and explains that " A series of excavations in the Amur River Basin in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that pottery in this region may be as old as, if not older than, Fukui Cave pottery ", which dates to around 10, 700 and was found in 1960.

She would record this song also in Japanese, Italian, and Spanish as she had done before with her original 1960 version.

born in Takehara, Hiroshima, was a Japanese politician and the 58th, 59th and 60th Prime Minister of Japan from 19 July 1960 to 9 November 1964.

After serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he entered politics, winning election to the Diet of Japan in 1960.

Usagi Yojimbo is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema and has included references to the work of Akira Kurosawa ( the title of the series is derived from Kurosawa's 1960 film Yojimbo ) and to icons of popular Japanese cinema such as Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, and Godzilla.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh, an African Chokwe people | Chokwe statue, detail from the The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa | Shisa lion

The expanded grouping, including Korean and Japanese, came to be known as " Macro-Altaic ", leading to the designation of the smaller grouping as " Micro-Altaic " by retronymy.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.

Throughout this period Ainu became increasingly dependent on goods imported by Japanese, and suffered from epidemic diseases such as smallpox.

Although the increased contact brought by trade between the Japanese and the Ainu contributed to increased mutual understanding, sometimes it led to conflict, occasionally intensifying into violent Ainu revolts, of which the most important was Shakushain's Revolt ( 1669 – 1672 ).

A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.