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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
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
One Hundred Million Hearts
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During the Second World War, the Japanese government stirred the people to support its war effort with the image of ?One hundred million hearts beating as one human bullet to defeat the enemy.? Kerri Sakamoto, winner of the Commonwealth Writers? Prize and the Japan-Canada Literary Award for her first novel The Electrical Field, draws on this wartime propaganda in her second novel as she casts light on a fascinating figure from wartime Japan: the kamikaze pilot.
These devout young men offered their lives to fly planes into enemy artillery; both human sacrifice and deadly weapon. A cherry blossom painted on the sides of the bomber symbolized the beauty and?
During the Second World War, the Japanese government stirred the people to support its war effort with the image of ?One hundred million hearts beating as one human bullet to defeat the enemy.? Kerri Sakamoto, winner of the Commonwealth Writers? Prize and the Japan-Canada Literary Award for her first novel The Electrical Field, draws on this wartime propaganda in her second novel as she casts light on a fascinating figure from wartime Japan: the kamikaze pilot.
These devout young men offered their lives to fly planes into enemy artillery; both human sacrifice and deadly weapon. A cherry blossom painted on the sides of the bomber symbolized the beauty and ephemerality of nature. Coming back alive from a sacred mission was shameful failure. To succeed meant transformation into an eternal flower ? reincarnation ? as the plane exploded like a fiery blossom in the sky.
In One Hundred Million Hearts, Miyo is a young Canadian woman who has been cared for all her life by her uncommunicative but devoted Japanese-Canadian father. Her mother died soon after her birth, and a disfigurement prevented the left side of her body from developing the same way as the right, causing her to be reliant on her father?s help. One day, commuting to work by subway when he can no longer drive her around, she is accidentally caught in the train doors, and rescued by a man who quickly professes his love for her.
The joy of this nurturing and joyful relationship removes her from the almost claustrophobic shelter of home, but as she grows distant from her father, his strength begins to fade; until one day she receives the terrible news of his death. It is only then that she discovers his secret past. The woman he always called his girlfriend was in fact his wife; they had a daughter in Japan, but gave her up for adoption. Now the daughter, Hana, is an artist in Tokyo. Amazed that she has a half-sister, Miyo travels there to meet her. Hana is bitter about being abandoned by her father, and has thrown herself into her work with almost destructive intensity.
Through Hana, Miyo learns more of their father?s hidden past. Though born in Canada, he was sent to university in Japan; in 1943, Japan was losing the war and the army began conscripting even students. He volunteered as a kamikaze pilot; yet he survived. Hana?s obsession with their father?s wartime history takes the shape of huge paintings of flowers adorned with the faces of kamikaze pilots and the red threads that one thousand schoolgirls sewed onto the white sash of every pilot that made this suicidal mission.
?If only he had not hoarded his secrets,? thinks Miyo as she struggles to understand modern Japan and her father?s past. Why did he not fulfill his ultimate sacrifice, but live to care for her? The reader is drawn into the daily struggles of each of the characters and their rich interior lives through a lyrical portrait of Japanese life that has been compared to David Guterson?s Snow Falling on Cedars and Arthur Golden?s Memoirs of a Geisha. The Montreal Gazette said Kerri Sakamoto has created in Miyo ?a marvelously complex, compelling character who is transformed?to a woman who runs and dances and loves, not in innocence, but in full, terrifying knowledge.?
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Kerri Sakamoto
Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto to a Japanese Canadian family. Her first novel, The Electrical Field, was a finalist for a slew of awards?the Governor General?s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award?and won the Commonwealth Writers? Prize for Best First Book and the Canada?Japan Literary Award. The Toronto Star said ?Kerri Sakamoto represents a major new force in the landscape of Canadian fiction.?
Kerri?s second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts, also earned widespread critical acclaim. After taking a sabbatical from writing to raise?
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Letter from S. Sakamoto to [The Dominguez Estate Company], December 21, 1941
No full textInquiring of the company still possess his birth certificate, and if so if they would return it. See item csudh_rsp_0290 for reply
Rigged Configurations and Kashiwara Operators
No full textFor types An⁽¹⁾ and Dn⁽¹⁾ we prove that the rigged configuration bijection intertwines the classical Kashiwara operators on tensor products of the arbitrary Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals and the set of the rigged configurations.This paper is a contribution to the Special Issue in honor of Anatol Kirillov and Tetsuji Miwa. The full
collection is available at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/InfiniteAnalysis2013.html.
The author would like to thank Professor Masato Okado for valuable discussion throughout the
project. In particular, the project began when both of us worked together to understand the
details of Appendix C of the preprint version of [4]. The author is also grateful to Professor Anne
Schilling for valuable discussion on her results. For both of them, the author is very grateful
for the fruitful collaboration on closely related projects [24, 25] which provides a motivation
and an important application of the present work. I would like to thank anonymous referees
for valuable suggestions which greatly help the author to improve the original manuscript. This
work is partially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 21740114 from JSPS
sj-tif-1-jet-10.1177_15266028221134886 – Supplemental material for Characteristics, Antithrombotic Patterns, and Prognostic Outcomes in Claudication and Critical Limb-Threatening Ischemia Undergoing Endovascular Therapy
No full textSupplemental material, sj-tif-1-jet-10.1177_15266028221134886 for Characteristics, Antithrombotic Patterns, and Prognostic Outcomes in Claudication and Critical Limb-Threatening Ischemia Undergoing Endovascular Therapy by Osami Kawarada, Kan Zen, Koji Hozawa, Hideaki Obara, Kentaro Matsubara, Yoshito Yamamoto, Tatsuki Doijiri, Nozomu Tamai, Shigenori Ito, Akihiro Higashimori, Daizo Kawasaki, Hideki Doi, Kensuke Matsushita, Kengo Tsukahara, Katsuo Noda, Masahisa Shimpo, Yuki Tsuda, Shinjo Sonoda, Takuya Taniguchi, Katsuhisa Waseda, Masato Munehisa, Eiji Taguchi, Tatsuya Kinjo, Yohei Sasaki, Kenichiro Yuba, Shinichiro Yamaguchi, Takuo Nakagami, Shinobu Ayabe, Shingo Sakamoto, Takeshi Yagyu, Soshiro Ogata, Kunihiro Nishimura, Hisashi Motomura, Teruo Noguchi, Masaharu Ishihara, Hisao Ogawa and Satoshi Yasuda in Journal of Endovascular Therapy</p
Modeling Human Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions
No full textThis interdisciplinary workshop aims to break boundaries between the researchers who develop human models (e.g., from the fields of human factors, cognitive psychology, and computational neuroscience) and roboticists who use human models in different human-robot interaction (HRI) contexts. The keynote talks, contributed submissions, and interactive discussions will focus on the questions such as: How can modeling humans help us understand and design human-robot interactions? What kinds of models are useful for which HRI contexts (physical/cognitive interactions) and purposes (behavior prediction/personalization/theory-of-mind/etc.)? What common lessons can be learned from human behavior modeling in HRI across different application domains? How can modeling humans in HRI tasks help us to better understand human cognition/behavior? By stimulating an interdisciplinary conversation around these questions, we aim to raise awareness of the benefits of modeling and expose the wider HRI community to a variety of different modeling approaches, and facilitate the HRI researchers who already engage in modeling to exchange views on methodology of modeling and best practices from diverse fields.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Human-Robot InteractionInteractive Intelligenc
Ultra-wideband radar imaging using a hybrid of Kirchhoff migration and stolt F-K migration with an inverse boundary scattering transform
No full textAccepted author manuscriptMicrowave Sensing, Signals & System
Loss of place and presence of \u22Earth\u22
No full textAs a continuation of my previous paper (Sakamoto, 2004a), this paper attempts an interpretation of \u22Place\u22 based on experience, in which I (the author, as Dasein) am in \u22Kinshai-dori\u22 - a shopping mall - and understand it as \u22my place.\u22 In the former paper, it was interpreted that the phenomenal place is the world, which unfolds along with the existential-history that belongs to the transcendental \u22Earth,\u22 and that the sense of \u22Place\u22 itself is the encounter with \u22Earth.\u22 The purpose of this paper is to show a clearer interpretation of the relationship between this existential-history and \u22Earth.\u22 Based on the following two facts, \u22Earth\u22 is interpreted as the original-horizon that makes place-generation possible. One fact is that, in the existential-upset-situation of \u22loss of place,\u22 the existential-history presents itself in the place even though no concrete object is present. The second fact is that the place is experienced as usual even though I am not present all the time. Finally, from the point of view of how \u22Earth\u22 is projected, topological interpretations about the concept of understanding and ontological interpretations about the \u22loss of place\u22 are discussed
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