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1. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-front-row“Perfect Days” and the Perils of Minimalism | The New Yorker

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   Feb 5, 2024 · The protagonist, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), is a cleaner for the Tokyo Toilet, a real-life set of seventeen public bathrooms of architectural distinction that opened between 2020 and 2023 in the...

2. english.elpais.com › culture › 2024/01/13‘Perfect Days’: so alone and so happy | Culture | EL PAÍS English

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   Jan 13, 2024 · Arisa Nakano and Koji Yakusho in 'Perfect Days'. But the happy loner reads William Faulkner before going to sleep and smiles at the sight of the sky when he wakes up. You sense his inner joy as...

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3. japan-forward.com › perfect-days-how-wim-wenders'Perfect Days': How Wim Wenders Challenges ... - JAPAN Forward

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   Dec 25, 2023 · Perfect Days depicts the simple, day-to-day life of the protagonist Hirayama (played by Koji Yakusho). He works as a janitor who lives alone in an old apartment. Every morning, Hirayama is woken up by the sound of a bamboo broom sweeping the nearby street.

4. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsTHE SHOGUN'S TEA JAR: RITUAL, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND POLITICAL ...

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   Jun 3, 2016 · This article explores the relationships between ritual, material culture, and political authority in early modern Japan by focusing on the Japanese tea ceremony, a highly formalized socio-cultural activity elaborated from the customs related to the consumption of powdered green tea.

5. www.japantimes.co.jp › culture › 2024/01/04Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ finds beauty in small pleasures

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   Jan 4, 2024 · Koji Yakusho gives an evocative, multilayered performance as a Tokyo toilet cleaner with a passion for simple joys in this poetic drama.

6. assets.cambridge.org › 9780521880473_excerptConcepts of Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese

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   1. Concepts of Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese. Introduction. Japanese scholars and by foreign observers of Japan. Most of it is based on an unwitting existential assump-tion that ‘Japan’, ‘Japanese culture’ and ‘the Japanese’ are ‘things’ out there, whose o. jectively verifiable forms need only be ascertained. Much of the discus.

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   • The results are merely vague, in a way that seems willfully naïve about Japan, about labor, and about art. The protagonist, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), is a cleaner for the Tokyo Toilet, a real-life set of seventeen public bathrooms of architectural distinction that opened between 2020 and 2023 in the city’s Shibuya neighborhood.

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   Is Japanese history defective?

   • ajor events in Japanese history has to be defective.Furthermore, an essentialist Japan that emphasises homogeneity does not recognise ordinary people’s varied daily patterns of living, such as culti-vation of yam, taro, all sorts of fruits and vegetables, and cereal

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   • oclaiming a Japan of homogeneous culture and people. That is, ‘Japanese’ in the core area, and their cul ure, were considered to embody the essence of Japan. Those in other territories were considered second-class Japanese at best, not only because they did not speak Japanese, but also because of their lack of other core Japanese cultural accoutre

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   Copyright Date: 2000. Published by: University of Hawai'i Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqxxp. Select all. (For EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley) (For BibTex) Front Matter. (pp. i-vi) Front Matter. (pp. i-vi) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqxxp.1. Table of Contents. (pp. vii-viii) Table of Contents. (pp. vii-viii)