11/30/2023 0 Comments Anime incoming gifPuck Brecher, associate professor of history, taught “Traditional Japanese Culture” (Japanese/Asia 120) in the fall semester. In addition to “Transnational Anime” (Forlang 300‑02), Arnold will teach a course in the spring on “Modern Japanese Culture” (Japanese/Asia 123). The funds are enabling SLCR to resume Japanese culture courses that had not been offered since December 2016, when Kota Inoue, a much‑beloved assistant professor of Japanese, died in a car crash, Niimi said. Japanese instructor Kayo Niimi applied for the grant on behalf of the school, and was delighted when her proposal was accepted, she said. Yoko Yanagimoto (left), representative of the Japan Foundation at the Japanese Consulate office in Seattle, visited WSU Pullman in October 2018 to present a grant check on behalf of the Japan Foundation to Carmen Lugo‑Lugo, director, School of Languages, Cultures, and Race, and Kayo Niimi, Instructor of Japanese. JFLA creates global opportunities to foster friendship, trust and mutual understanding between Japan and the world through culture, language and dialogue. The program expansion is made possible by a $30,000 salary assistance grant received this fall from the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles. It is among three new or returning courses added this academic year to the broader suite of Japanese language and culture study options. Recognizing the great potential of anime as an educational tool, the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race (SLCR) at WSU invited Arnold to teach “Transnational Anime: Japanese Animation History and Theory” in the spring 2019 semester. By Adriana Aumen, College of Arts and SciencesĬourageous, conflicted, cantankerous or just plain cute, the colorful characters brought to life in Japanese anime film and television can teach a great deal about the country’s culture, says Michael Arnold, incoming Japanese studies instructor at Washington State University.įeaturing vibrant, hand-drawn and computer-animated graphics, anime productions provide glimpses of Japanese life, values and social norms as well as everyday language and idiomatic expressions used in context, Arnold said.
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