#Sumi Ryohei

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Frog, by Ryohei Matsumoto.

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Title: Weathering with You

Rating: PG-13

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Cast: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu, Sei Hiraizumi, Yuki Kaji, Chieko Baisho, Shun Oguri, Sumi Shimamoto, Ryohei Kimura, Kana Hanazawa, Ayane Sakura, Kana Ichinose, Masako Nozawa, Hidekatsu Shibata, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Ryo Narita

Release year: 2019

Genres: fantasy, romance, drama

Blurb: The summer of his freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. One day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. The bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

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Natsume's Book of Friends Film Gets New Trailer

Hit series Natsume Yūjin-chō, otherwise known as Natsume's Book of Friends, received a new trailer for its upcoming film today.

The latest adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's hit manga, Natsume's Book of Friends The Movie: Tied to the Temporal World, is set to hit Japanese theaters on September 29. The film's theme song, Remember by Uru, was previewed in the new trailer, and a new visual was unveiled alongside it.

The film showcases the return of characters such as:

Hiroshi Kamiya as Takashi Natsume

Kazuhiko Inoue as Nyanko-sensei

Sanae Kobayashi as Reiko Natsume

Akira Ishida as Shūichi Natori

Kazuma Horie as Kaname Tanuma

Ryohei Kimura as Satoru Nishimura

Hisayoshi Suganuma as Atsushi Kitamoto

Miyuki Sawashiro as Jun Sasada

Rina Satou as Tōru Taki

Miki Itou as Tōko Fujiwara

Eiji Itō as Shigeru Fujiwara

Satsuki Yukino as Hiiragi

Akemi Okamura as Hinoe

Takaya Kuroda as Misuzu

Chō as Chōbihige

Takashi Matsuyama as One-Eyed Middle Class Yōkai

Hiroshi Shimozaki as Ox-Faced Middle Class Yōkai

Kyouko Chikiri as Kappa

New characters to franchise include:

Sumi Shimamoto as Yorie Tsumura

Kengo Kora as Mukuo Tsumura

Shuka, the studio behind the last two seasons of Natsume's Book of Friends, will be producing the film project. Natsume's Book of Friends The Movie: Tied to the Temporal World is set to release on September 29 in Japan. There have been no announcements as to when it'll hit the west.

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From the Densho Project, by Nina Wallace

OF SPIES AND G-MEN: HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TURNED JAPANESE AMERICANS INTO ENEMIES OF THE STATE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 HIDDEN HISTORIES

On December 7, 1941, Sumi Okamoto, then 21, was busy getting ready for her wedding. Oblivious to the reports of bombs falling on faraway Pearl Harbor, Sumi put on her white dress and headed to the Grant Street Methodist Church in Spokane, Washington. Her family and friends, hoping not to spoil her wedding day, tried to keep the bad news from her—that is, until FBI agents crashed the reception to arrest several of her Issei guests.

This is not an uncommon story. Lilly Irinaga’s father was picked up in another mass arrest at a community event in Portland. Ryohei Miyaki was removed from his Terminal Island home by an informal posse deputized to act on behalf of the FBI. What Akira Otani remembered was the guns they pointed at his mother as they dragged his dad to a waiting car. My own great-grandfather, Takuichi Kubota—George to the white folks who couldn’t pronounce his birth name—was taken quietly and efficiently, without a word on where he was going or when (if) he would be back.

In the weeks following Pearl Harbor, these raids became such a regular occurrence that many men began to keep a suitcase with a toothbrush and change of clothes by the door, awaiting their turn to disappear.

But this roundup of Issei community leaders was much more than simple hysteria. For years, the government had prepared for the detention of prominent Issei, made contingency plans for the systematic removal of Nikkei communities, and even toyed with the idea of holding Japanese Americans as wartime hostages. This was, as professor Tetsuden Kashima describes in Judgment Without Trial, “a rational process, not one conceived in haste or necessitated by administrative panic.” [1]

THE ‘JAPANESE PROBLEM’

Japanese Americans had been declared an enemy of the United States long before the war. Issei immigrants arriving on the West Coast and Hawai‘i in the early 20th century were met with vehement, sometimes violent opposition. Anti-Japanese crusaders seeking to drive out “the yellow menace” cast these immigrants as an invasive species infiltrating the country in preparation for “colonization” by Japan. This “Japanese problem” was largely framed as a battle for self-preservation: The racial and moral purity of (white) America was under attack by a barbaric horde of “tiny brown men” and their overly fertile wives.

As communities of color became increasingly organized in their attempts to address the systemic racism leveled against them, government surveillance became a tool to undermine and suppress activism. The FBI monitored plantation labor organizers in Hawai‘i from 1917, and showed concern over “Japanese subversives” involved with the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Nation of Islam as early as 1920. J. Edgar Hoover saw Japanese support for Black nationalist groups as evidence of a militant coalition of Black and Asian radicals uniting “the colored races” against “the white man’s rule.” This opinion was reflected in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), which expressed fear of “the Japanese hand playing the powerful yet silent note” behind “the negro movement” and other “agitory elements.” [2]

American counterintelligence efforts began to prioritize domestic surveillance of purportedly subversive activities, initially targeting anarchists, communists, and labor unions. But as war with Japan loomed closer, U.S. officials grew increasingly paranoid of a fifth column composed of the Issei and their citizen children—a delusion no doubt influenced by earlier propaganda warning of a Japanese invasion. The ONI, FBI, War Department, and other federal agencies soon turned their attention to Japanese Americans.

Ostensibly this surveillance was aimed at Japan, but in keeping with longstanding perceptions of Asian Americans as duplicitous and inassimilable foreigners, Nikkei residents and citizens of the United States were also suspect from the beginning. U.S.-Japan relations soured in the early 1930s, as the American government became increasingly concerned that Japan’s military occupation of China and Korea would threaten Western colonial stakes throughout Asia and the Pacific. Japanese Americans were implicated by association, and by 1932 the entire community was under active surveillance. [3]

‘AN APOCALYPTIC PICTURE OF DISLOYALTY AND DANGER’

Hawai‘i, with its large Nikkei population and relative proximity to Japan, was of particular concern. John DeWitt, one of the main architects of WWII incarceration, had in the 1920s overseen the formation of a “Joint Defense Plan” in Oahu that included contingencies for imposing martial law, suspending habeas corpus, and the registration and selective internment of Japanese “enemy aliens.” [continue reading at https://densho.org/of-spies-and-gmen/]

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Weathering with You

High school student Hodaka leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he immediately becomes broke. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. After he starts his job, the weather has been rainy day after day. In a corner of the crowded and busy city, Hodaka meets a young woman named Hina. Due to certain circumstances, Hina…

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"Crow and persimmon in the snow", Tanaka Ryohei (b.1933) - 2008. [Source: Azuma Gallery, Seattle] #ukiyo #sumi-e #tanakaryohei #azumagallery

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Young Tiger, by Ryohei Matsumoto