{"id":2265,"date":"2008-12-12T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2008-12-12T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:26:53","slug":"update-roland-kelts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/12\/update-roland-kelts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Roland Kelts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the latest update on JET alum Roland Kelts<\/strong><\/a> (Osaka, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica<\/strong><\/a> and professor at Tokyo University:<\/em><\/p>\n

ADBUSTERS<\/a>:<\/strong> A feature story<\/a>, co-written with Leo Lewis<\/strong> of the Times of London<\/em>, about signs of socialism and unrest among Japanese youth and the Kanikosen phenomenon is now online:
\nhttp:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/magazine\/81\/big_in_japan.html<\/a> (On a related topic, Stacy Smith<\/strong> comments on recent political unrest following the closing of an auto manufacturing plant in Japan in WITLife #7-Totyota Shock (Part 2)<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/em>
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DAILY YOMIURI:<\/strong> In his latest Soft Power\/Hard Truths<\/strong><\/em> column in the Daily Yomiuri<\/a>, Roland revisits Michael Arias<\/strong>, the only American to have directed a feature anime film in Japan–Tekkonkinkreet<\/strong>—<\/em>(which, incidentally, premiered in the US at MOMA in 2007).\u00a0 Arias’s forthcoming film is the live action Heaven’s Door <\/em><\/strong>(opens 2\/7\/09 in Japan), which Roland attended at a private screening last week.\u00a0 Link to the column:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/arts\/20081212TDY13004.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seikai University Talk<\/a>:<\/strong> Roland’s blog (japanamerica.blogspot.com) has a post about his recent talk at Seikei University<\/a> in western Tokyo about Japanamerica<\/em> where he introduced both the ideas examined in the book and the latest happenings in the trans-cultural exchange between Japan and the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the latest update on JET alum Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica and professor at Tokyo University: ADBUSTERS: A feature story, co-written with Leo Lewis of the Times of London, about signs of socialism and unrest among Japanese youth and the Kanikosen phenomenon is now online: http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/magazine\/81\/big_in_japan.html (On a related topic, Stacy Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,4,7,40,26,30,14,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-articlejournalism","category-blogs","category-books","category-celebrity","category-japan-trends","category-roland-kelts","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t