Candice N. Wilson
@cnwilson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media. Lover of East Asian Cinema, Horror and Representations of Race and Difference.
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When the Korean War began in 1950, Japan became the United States’ logistical heart and emotional escape. Known as R&R (Rest and Relaxation), the troops referred to Japan trips colloquially as I&I (Intercourse and Intoxication) or even A&A (Ass and Alcohol).
The War of Brides and Babies: Behind Japan's "Anti-Communist" Mixed-Race Baby Boom - Unseen Japan
How the Red Cross and other organizations used war brides and the adoption of mixed-race children to fight the Cold War.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
When the Korean War began in 1950, Japan became the United States’ logistical heart and emotional escape. Known as R&R (Rest and Relaxation), the troops referred to Japan trips colloquially as I&I (Intercourse and Intoxication) or even A&A (Ass and Alcohol).
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The Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution film opened at #1, and the Chainsaw Man film fell to #4 last weekend at the Japanese box office.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution Compilation Film Opens at #1, Chainsaw Man Anime Film Drops to #4
Live-action 5 Centimeters per Second stays at #6, 4th Sumikko Gurashi anime flm drops to #7
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution film opened at #1, and the Chainsaw Man film fell to #4 last weekend at the Japanese box office.
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Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities elsewhere.
Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan
Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities elsewhere.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities elsewhere.
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CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
June 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
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Eiko Yamada shares how she got the role, working with acclaimed Ghibli directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, and her most memorable moments.
Backstage Stories About the Making of 1979 Classic Anne of Green Gables with Anne Herself, Eiko Yamada
www.animenewsnetwork.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Eiko Yamada shares how she got the role, working with acclaimed Ghibli directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, and her most memorable moments.
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Very sad news. Oyster farmer Shigetaka Hatakeyama has passed away. He practiced oyster farming by actively participating in forestation activities, which resulted in delicious oysters. He left behind a remarkable achievement in spreading the phrase 'The forest is the lover of the sea'.
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Foreword by Mr. Shigeatsu Hatakeyama (畠山重篤様)
Chairperson of “Mori wa Umi no Koibito” (The Forest is the Ocean’s Lover); Oyster farmer; Professor of Field Studies and Practical Learning, Filed Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto Universi...
mgiep.unesco.org
April 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Very sad news. Oyster farmer Shigetaka Hatakeyama has passed away. He practiced oyster farming by actively participating in forestation activities, which resulted in delicious oysters. He left behind a remarkable achievement in spreading the phrase 'The forest is the lover of the sea'.
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"Even though everybody suffers differently, you can think yourself in their position."
"There is this woman who lost her memory. She only remembers poems–a true story. If you only keep poems in mind, then maybe the non-realistic things in our lives are more important in the end, than all the realistic memories you have from success and failure."
- Agnès Varda
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- Agnès Varda
youtu.be/nrL8DGNyDhY?...
AGNÈS VARDA on POETRY - cine-fils.com
YouTube video by cine-fils magazine
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March 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Even though everybody suffers differently, you can think yourself in their position."
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The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈⬛
March 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈⬛
We all need a Grave Friend. I love this!
Japan’s population is both aging and becoming more single. That means many senior citizens won’t have family who will follow them into the afterlife. In response, one organization is helping seniors find friends who’ll accompany them into the Grave Beyond.
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#Japan
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#Japan
Grave Friends: Lonely Seniors in Japan Vow to Spend Eternity Together - Unseen Japan
As Japan continues both to age and become more single, some senior citizens are looking to one another for comfort in the afterlife.
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March 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We all need a Grave Friend. I love this!
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✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
February 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
"Even in the darkest places, within the most broken systems, humanity persists."
This line toward the end feels pretty important: "Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain. CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year."
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
March 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Even in the darkest places, within the most broken systems, humanity persists."
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A Meiji-era law requires Japanese couples to choose a single last name. As legislators in Japan debate repealing it, a new poll shows that a majority of women wish they had had the choice to keep their maiden names when getting married.
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#Japan
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#Japan
Poll: Over Half of Married Japanese Women Wanted to Keep Their Maiden Names - Unseen Japan
Politicians in Japan's Diet are still duking out the merits of changing the Meiji-era law forcing joint spousal surnames.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A Meiji-era law requires Japanese couples to choose a single last name. As legislators in Japan debate repealing it, a new poll shows that a majority of women wish they had had the choice to keep their maiden names when getting married.
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#Japan
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#Japan
Far from home but connected always through music. The best time travel machine.
Looking to the roots of #Trinidad’s national music, she said: “The sound is very similar as soca music is a mixture of Indian rhythms and calypso – which is an African rhythm. And it’s that blending that brings you a little closer.”
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‘We are one people’: Soca stars including Machel Montano highlight Caribbean’s connection to Africa
March 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Far from home but connected always through music. The best time travel machine.
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“He wanted also to have the freedom to just be a photographer, not a Black photographer, not an anti-apartheid photographer, and that part was never allowed to him”
@leighsinger.bsky.social speaks with director Raoul Peck about his new doc Ernest Cole: Lost and Found www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@leighsinger.bsky.social speaks with director Raoul Peck about his new doc Ernest Cole: Lost and Found www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
“The film should continue with you, otherwise I’m just preaching”: Raoul Peck on his documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Raoul Peck’s upcoming documentary on South African photographer Ernest Cole distils the life of an artist in exile while interrogating the legacy of apartheid.
www.bfi.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“He wanted also to have the freedom to just be a photographer, not a Black photographer, not an anti-apartheid photographer, and that part was never allowed to him”
@leighsinger.bsky.social speaks with director Raoul Peck about his new doc Ernest Cole: Lost and Found www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@leighsinger.bsky.social speaks with director Raoul Peck about his new doc Ernest Cole: Lost and Found www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Before the 4B movement, there were Comb Sisters:
Unwed women in China’s Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, innovative communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
#IWD #WomensHistoryMonth
Unwed women in China’s Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, innovative communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
#IWD #WomensHistoryMonth
Comb Sisters
Unwed women in China's Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
placesjournal.org
March 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Before the 4B movement, there were Comb Sisters:
Unwed women in China’s Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, innovative communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
#IWD #WomensHistoryMonth
Unwed women in China’s Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, innovative communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.
#IWD #WomensHistoryMonth
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We invented #Steelpan 🎶🎶🎶
#Panorama2024 final #Inventor (AirPods in)
youtu.be/DNOEpeQLx-Q?...
And for #Panorama2025
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
Tune of choice: Bet Meh
Singer: Machel Montano
Arranger: Leon "Smooth" Edwards
#weareallstars #Pushin90 #allstarsforever
#Panorama2024 final #Inventor (AirPods in)
youtu.be/DNOEpeQLx-Q?...
And for #Panorama2025
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
Tune of choice: Bet Meh
Singer: Machel Montano
Arranger: Leon "Smooth" Edwards
#weareallstars #Pushin90 #allstarsforever
Massy Trinidad All Stars - Inventor (Panorama Finals 2024)
YouTube video by C-Shel
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January 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We invented #Steelpan 🎶🎶🎶
#Panorama2024 final #Inventor (AirPods in)
youtu.be/DNOEpeQLx-Q?...
And for #Panorama2025
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
Tune of choice: Bet Meh
Singer: Machel Montano
Arranger: Leon "Smooth" Edwards
#weareallstars #Pushin90 #allstarsforever
#Panorama2024 final #Inventor (AirPods in)
youtu.be/DNOEpeQLx-Q?...
And for #Panorama2025
Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
Tune of choice: Bet Meh
Singer: Machel Montano
Arranger: Leon "Smooth" Edwards
#weareallstars #Pushin90 #allstarsforever
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These images of Black merpeople are incredible. Literally just finished reading The Deep by @riverssolomon.bsky.social *yesterday* and it's amazing to see these pictures right after. Highly recommend looking at each and every one (and also reading that book)
"Drown In My Magic opens up a fantastical Black ecology, showing Black merpeople thriving in bodies of water. The series repurposes modern and historical links between Blackness and water, and reclaims the "monstrosity" often attributed to Black and migrant bodies. Can the monstrous be freeing?"
drown in my magic - David Uzochukwu
Photography by David Uzochukwu.
www.daviduzochukwu.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
These images of Black merpeople are incredible. Literally just finished reading The Deep by @riverssolomon.bsky.social *yesterday* and it's amazing to see these pictures right after. Highly recommend looking at each and every one (and also reading that book)
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Tadanobu Asano hearing he has won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor. x.com/Variety/stat...
January 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Tadanobu Asano hearing he has won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor. x.com/Variety/stat...
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January 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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also there's a great Merle Oberon biography coming. we share a pub date!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Love, Queenie
A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood., Love, Queenie, Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star,...
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December 29, 2024 at 6:04 PM
also there's a great Merle Oberon biography coming. we share a pub date!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Finally saw the tv glow. That ending 🤯. Perfection.
a person walking down a street with the words there is still time written on it
Alt: a person walking down a street with the words there is still time written on it
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December 28, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Finally saw the tv glow. That ending 🤯. Perfection.
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#HBD to Ida May Park "Park flourished at Universal, where she wrote 44 films, half of them feature length, between 1914-1919. Before 1917, Park’s husband directed almost all of the films she wrote. In 1917, Park began directing her own scenarios..."
Ida May Park – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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December 28, 2024 at 4:30 PM
#HBD to Ida May Park "Park flourished at Universal, where she wrote 44 films, half of them feature length, between 1914-1919. Before 1917, Park’s husband directed almost all of the films she wrote. In 1917, Park began directing her own scenarios..."
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For my final Directed By Women Viewing Guide of the year I've highlighted 73(!) films from 2024 worth seeking out that are available to rent or stream.
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...
December 27, 2024 at 6:05 PM
For my final Directed By Women Viewing Guide of the year I've highlighted 73(!) films from 2024 worth seeking out that are available to rent or stream.
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...
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Digitizing rare books is no small feat! 📙🖥️ Explore the digitization process and some of the fantastical works of the Harvard-Yenching Library by revisiting our #NCCSpotlight by Japanese Collection Librarian Kuniko Yamada McVey! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
December 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Digitizing rare books is no small feat! 📙🖥️ Explore the digitization process and some of the fantastical works of the Harvard-Yenching Library by revisiting our #NCCSpotlight by Japanese Collection Librarian Kuniko Yamada McVey! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...