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Letter from children of Kihichi Sakamoto to Project Director [Raymond R. Best], February 14, 1944
No full textLetter from three of his children, Tatsuo, Manabu, and Osamu Sakamoto, requests the release of their father, Kihichi Sakamoto, from the Army Stockade, for the sake of their mother's "health and mind" stating that she has been ill since their stay in Heart Mountain the previous year and has suffered a relapse upon her husband's imprisonment in the stockade; the letter states that, according to her doctor, a lack of kindness and peace of mind regarding this request for release could prove lethal to her.The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent history. In 1943, the camp was turned into a segregation center to house "disloyal" Japanese Americans relocated from other camps based on their answers to a confusing loyalty questionnaire. The camp endured martial law from November 1943- Jan 1944 after escalating protests and unrest. The hostile environment of the camp lead to many incarcerees renouncing their American citizenship upon the end of incarceration, a process which took 14 years to reverse if they did not wish to be deported to Japan
Harmony in Motion: Exploring the Cinematic Soundscapes of Ryuichi Sakamoto
No full textopenQuesta tesi magistrale esplora la poliedrica carriera di Ryuichi Sakamoto con particolare attenzione al suo contributo alla musica da film. Lo studio inizia fornendo una panoramica del ruolo della musica nel cinema e delle teorie pertinenti, introducendo le metodologie di Sergio Miceli, Michel Chion e Martine Huvenne, che ho selezionato per un'analisi approfondita delle colonne sonore del compositore. Il secondo capitolo presenta una breve panoramica biografica della vita e del ritratto artistico del compositore scoprendo l'evoluzione stilistica e tematica nelle sue composizioni. Il terzo capitolo analizza lo sviluppo della carriera musicale per film di Sakamoto attraverso cinque film selezionati di generi diversi in collaborazione con Bernardo Bertolucci, Amy Ziering e Kirby Dick, Luca Guadagnino e Andrew Levitas. La tesi si conclude nel quarto capitolo con l'identificazione delle caratteristiche sonore fondamentali della musica del compositore. In generale, gli studi dei film selezionati esplorano il modo in cui il tocco di Ryuichi Sakamoto influenza le narrazioni, i personaggi, gli spazi diegetici e non diegetici e il coinvolgimento dello spettatore attraverso le sue composizioni.This master’s thesis explores the multifaceted career of Ryuichi Sakamoto with a particular focus on his contribution to film music. The study begins with providing an overview of the role of music in cinema and relevant theories, introducing methodologies of Sergio Miceli, Michel Chion, and Martine Huvenne, which I selected for in-depth analysis of composer’s film scores. The second chapter presents a short biographical overview of the composer’s life and artistic portrait uncovering the stylistic and thematic evolution in his compositions. The third chapter analyzes the development of Sakamoto’s film music career through selected five films of different genres in collaboration with Bernardo Bertolucci, Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, Luca Guadagnino, and Andrew Levitas, ending with identifying the fundamental sonic features of the composer’s music. In general, the case studies of the films explore how his music signatures affect narratives, characters, diegetic and non-diegetic spaces, and viewer engagement
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Letter from Arthur Sakamoto to Pamela Thoma
No full textLetter from Arthur Sakamoto, Interim Director of Asian American Studies at UT Austin, to Professor Pamela Thoma of American Studies & Women's Studies at Colby College, offering her a position as Visiting Assistant Professor.Asian American Studie
Ena Okonogi Sakamoto
No full textOral history interview with Ena Okonogi Sakamoto. Information on the oral history project is found in: csuf_stp_0012A; Glossary in: csuf_stp_0014.A Japanese American oral history project undertaken in 1979-1980, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and archived at the Fresno County Public Library
Letter to Kuni Sakamoto
No full textCondolence letter to Mrs. Kuni Sakamoto regarding the death of her son Robert I. Sakamoto
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Searching For A Solution: Administrators Debate the Future of Asian-American Studies Sakamoto
No full textPublic Letter written by Art Sakamoto to Pres. Faulkner detailing the progress of the AAS Summer Advisory Committee and callling for charges to be dropped of UT 10Asian American Studie
Oral history interview with Kae Sakamoto, 2015 August 6
No full textKae Sakamoto was born and raised in Hiroshima. Her mother and her mother's parents as well as her father's parents are all hibakusha. She graduated from the School of Medicine at Hiroshima University and worked at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) for 30 years, after which she started offering medical examinations to survivors. She also participated in the biennial medical checkups in San Francisco and Seattle. She thinks that the U.S. hibakusha were especially grateful for the checkups, as it allowed them to speak about their medical conditions in Japanese with doctors from Hiroshima. She says that when she was working with patients at RERF, she was not informed if they were hibakusha or not in order to prevent bias, but some patients would start revealing their status as hibakusha as the anniversay approached. Sakamoto mentions that as a scientist she believes the evidence that says that the children of hibakusha should not have adverse effects from the radiation and that due to her mother's distance from ground zero she should be fine as well. She talks about the need to preserve the data obtained during the course of the research on hibakusha. She expresses sadness that so many people died before the current system for medical expenses was in place and that the many people who were evacuated to the countryside while their entire families died in the bombing are excluded from the system
James Sakamoto letter to Philip Schafer requesting a pass for Buddhist Reverend Eiyo Terso to travel to Minidoka and minister to internees, August 27, 1942
No full textSakamoto writes to Philip Schafer, Assistant Manager of the Minidoka internment camp requesting that he grant permission for Reverand Eiyo Terso, a minister of the Shinshu Buddhist Church of Seattle, to have a pass so that he may travel through the different areas of the camp and attend to the needs of the internees. Sakamoto writes, "The Reverend Terso is one of the prominent citizens of our community and has been an inspiring figure to the members of his Church and others. He is a minister of the largest single Japanese congregation in this community." Sakamoto misspells Schafer's name in this correspondence, including an extra "e."After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States government began enacting a series of measures against those with Japanese ancestry. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing military commanders to designate "military areas" at their discretion, "from which any or all persons may be excluded." On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt signed Public Proclamation No. 1 establishing the Pacific coast and 100 miles inland as Military Area No. 1 and requiring that anyone with "enemy" ancestry evacuate. Through the spring of 1942, Japanese families began moving into temporary assembly centers, such as Camp Harmony in Puyallup, Washington, where they remained through the summer before moving to permanent internment camps
Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
No full textThis thesis is a Nietzschean analysis of Meiji Restoration hero Sakamoto Ryoma (1835 - 1867). It discusses the life and times of Sakamoto and basic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). It argues that despite vastly different historical, cultural, and ideological backgrounds, Sakamoto and Nietzsche were modern men with similar ideas, and that Sakamoto lived those ideas. The author demonstrates that Sakamoto perceived Confucianism-based social and political systems under Tokugawa feudalism as threatening to Japan’s sovereignty in an age of Western imperialism, and that through a Nietzschean “will to power” and resolve to “live dangerously” he helped overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. The paper compares Sakamoto’s rejection of Confucian-samurai values with Nietzsche’s rejection of Christian values, and Nietzsche’s announcement of the death of God with Sakamoto’s heralding of the death of Tokugawa feudalism. Pointing out the importance that Sakamoto and Nietzsche placed on truth, individualism, self-reliance, and self-determination, the paper argues that Sakamoto, embodying Nietzsche’s “higher man,” created new values and embraced ideas resembling Nietzsche’s doctrine of free death to overcome chaos and create meaning through revolution
A simple proof of the generalized Craig–Sakamoto theorem
No full textAbstractThe Craig–Sakamoto theorem establishes the independence of two quadratic forms in normal variates. In this article, we provide a simple proof of a generalized Craig–Sakamoto theorem
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