Japan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAPEnvy (Musical group : Japan)
Contents: Further ahead of warp -- Shield of selflessness -- Scene -- Crystallize -- The unknown glow -- Night in winter -- A warm room.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Temporary Residence 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EnvyNobleman, Marc Tyler
Summary: "In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FUJJapan (Musical group)
Contents: Gentlemen take polaroids -- Swing -- Burning bridges -- My new career -- Methods of dance -- Ain't that peculiar -- Nightporter -- Taking islands in Africa -- The experience of swimming -- The width of a room -- Taking islands in Africa : Steve Nye remix.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JapanVamps (Musical group : Japan)
Contents: Reincarnation (1:34) -- Zero (3:33) -- Lips (4:07) -- World's End (4:12) -- Evil (3:25) -- Ghost (4:49) -- Vampire's Love (4:50) -- Damned (4:22) -- Get Away (4:20) -- Replay (4:12) -- Bloodsuckers (1:26) -- The Jolly Roger (4:41) -- Inside Myself (4:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delicious Deli Records 2015
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Summary: Examines the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan. Looks at the lives of some of the refugees from the town of Futaba. Raises questions regarding the future of nuclear power in Japan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NUCSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILRissman, Rebecca
Summary: In "narrative nonfiction format, this ... book follows a selection of people who experienced the 2011 Japan Tsunami"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.34 RISSummary: Follows the personal journeys of three former "comfort women" who were among 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC APOShibutani, Maia
Summary: Accompanying their journalist parents to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, twelve-year-old Andy Kudo and his eleven-year-old sister Mika find themselves immersed in an augmented reality game developed by a former Olympic medalist, that brings players together from all over the world to search Tokyo for virtual medals and clues to the secretive creator's identity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHISummary: Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMPSummary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURSummary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEASummary: An astonishingly intimate portrait of a deeply haunted but truly unstoppable virtuoso and the music that has enthralled legions of the world's most devoted fans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEDunn, Joeming W.
Summary: History comes alive in this nonfiction graphic novel! Readers will follow along as the battle of Iwo Jima is detailed, from its genesis in Japanese territorial expansion in the early 1930s, to Japan's signing of the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United States's entry into World War II. The ensuing battle in the Pacific is examined, including the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 DUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DUNPrange, Gordon W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's (US) 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 PRASummary: Batman, along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATSummary: "Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi ... and Shun ... but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed in the U.S. by Cinedigm Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FROSummary: This reinvention of the American Western is a wild, sexy shoot-out studded with action, suspense and offbeat humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quick 2005Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN QUISummary: With the Shinjuku Battle behind him and Mika lost to the side of the vampires, Yuichiro begins searching for a way to turn his old friend back into a human. But first, he and the rest of his squad must focus on controlling the powerful demons they've made contracts with. If they hope to survive, they'll have to walk the line between being possessed by their demon's powers and being completely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME SERSummary: An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors-- the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOYSummary: "Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Encore Films 2011