Japan: Its Culture and Its People

Duration: 13

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Audio-Visual Educational Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses old prints to show Commodore Perry as he opened Japanese ports to world trade, and studies the geographic, cultural, social, and economic phases of Japanese life. Discusses Japanese art, religion, and architecture. Touches upon the problem of over-population and indicates the importance of producing manufactured goods to trade abroad for food. Pictures artisans and craftsmen at work and views the agricultural industries of the country., Historical note of Perry reopening the island nation to the western world. The industrialization of Japan today. Rural life, crops, terraced farming. The modern culture, major religions, the importance of such customs as the tea ceremony and the cultivation of the art of flower arranging.

Complete Record: Uses old prints to show Commodore Perry as he opened Japanese ports to world trade, and studies the geographic, cultural, social, and economic phases of Japanese life. Discusses Japanese art, religion, and architecture. Touches upon the problem of over-population and indicates the importance of producing manufactured goods to trade abroad for food. Pictures artisans and craftsmen at work and views the agricultural industries of the country., Historical note of Perry reopening the island nation to the western world. The industrialization of Japan today. Rural life, crops, terraced farming. The modern culture, major religions, the importance of such customs as the tea ceremony and the cultivation of the art of flower arranging., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)