Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer and editor who lives and works in the United States. In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, but left the position in September 2018. Much of his writing has focused on the culture of Asia that of China and 20th-century Japan, he was the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College from 2003 to 2017. Buruma was raised in The Hague, Netherlands, his father, Sytze Leonard "Leo" Buruma, was a Dutch lawyer and the son of a Mennonite minister, his mother, Gwendolyn Margaret "Wendy" Schlesinger, a Briton of German-Jewish descent. He studied Chinese literature and history at Leiden University Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. Buruma lived in Japan from 1975 to 1981, where he worked as a film reviewer and documentary filmmaker. During the 1980s, he edited the cultural section of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, he traveled throughout Asia working as a freelance writer. Buruma is a board member of Human Rights in China and a fellow of the European Council of Foreign Relations.
Buruma has contributed numerous articles to The New York Review of Books since 1985. He held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C. and he was an Alistair Horne fellow of St Antony's College in Oxford, UK. In 2000, he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in the Pieterskerk in Netherlands. From 2003 to 2017, Buruma was Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, succeeding founding editor Robert B. Silvers. In September 2018, Buruma left the NYRB position in the wake of a dispute about his decision to publish an essay by the Canadian talk show host Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi was acquitted in 2016 of one count of choking and four counts of sexual assault, after over 20 women complained either to the police or in the media; the publication of the essay was controversial, in part because Ghomeshi wrote that the allegations against him were "inaccurate".
In an interview with Slate magazine, Buruma defended his decision to publish, denied that the article was misleading because it had failed to mention that Ghomeshi had been required to issue an apology to one of the victims as part of the terms of a case against him. He denied that the title, "Reflections from a Hashtag", was dismissive of the #MeToo movement; the exact nature of behavior – how much consent was involved – I have no idea, nor is it my concern."Buruma subsequently left The New York Review of Books amid "outrage" over his defense of the article. The Review stated that it had departed from its "usual editorial practices", as the essay "was shown to only one male editor during the editing process", that Buruma's statement to Slate about the staff of the Review "did not represent their views"; some commentators expressed fears that Buruma's exit threatened to inhibit the intellectual culture in the United States. In 2008, Buruma was awarded the Erasmus Prize, awarded to an individual who has made "an important contribution to culture, society or social science in Europe".
He is among the 100 top global thinkers of 2010. Foreign Policy explained his contribution as a public intellectual: Many liberals these days seem at pains to establish their bona fides as tough-minded hawks when it comes to global threats, but the Dutch man of letters has made a career out of affirming the classic liberalism of the open-door variety, his writing in recent years has attracted the ire of critics who think he equivocates on the dangers of radical Islam, but Ian Buruma made his response this year with a judicious and politically relevant book, Taming the Gods, that reflects on the Western capacity for religious pluralism. According to Buruma, Western society is robust enough to embrace illiberal practices, so long as these are not violent. "Living with values that one does not share", he wrote in a recent column on France's burqa ban, "is a price to be paid for living in a pluralist society". In April 2012, he was awarded the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Buruma has won several prizes for his books, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Theater of Cruelty. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions and has been termed a "well-regarded European intellectual", he argued in 2001 for wholehearted British participation in the European Union because they were the "strongest champions in Europe of a liberal approach to commerce and politics". He has been a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2001. Buruma has been married twice, on both occasions to Japanese women, he and his first wife, Sumie Tani, had a daughter, as he did with Hotta Eri. Buruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, with whom he published a series of interviews in book form. Official Website, with curriculum vitae Column archive at Project Syndicate Column archive at The Guardian Column archive at The New York Review of Books Appearances on C-SPAN Ian Buruma on IMDb Works by or about Ian Buruma in libraries "Ian Buruma collected news and commentary".
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Minister of Justice (Japan)
The Minister of Justice is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of Justice. Liberal Democratic Democratic
Ekoda Station
Ekoda Station is a railway station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line in Nerima, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway. Ekoda Station is served by the Seibu Ikebukuro Line from Ikebukuro in Tokyo to Hannō in Saitama Prefecture, is located 4.3 km from the Ikebukuro terminus. Only all-stations "Local" services stop at this station. Ekoda Station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks; the platforms are capable of handling 10-car trains. The station opened on 1 November 1922. Renovation of the station building began in 2008 and was completed in 2011. Station numbering was introduced during fiscal 2012, with Ekoda Station becoming "SI04". In fiscal 2013, the station was the 28th busiest on the Seibu network with an average of 34,045 passengers daily; the passenger figures for previous years are as shown below. Several university and college campuses are located nearby the station. Musashi University Musashino Academia Musicae College of Art, Nihon University List of railway stations in Japan Ekoda Station information
Itabashi
Itabashi is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. In English, it calls itself Itabashi City. Itabashi has sister-city relations with Ontario, in Canada; as of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 547,270, a population density of 16,990 persons per km2. The total area is 32.22 km2. Itabashi lies on the Kantō plain; the Arakawa River, a major river, forms part of the boundary with Saitama Prefecture. Surrounding the ward are, in Saitama, the cities of Wakō and Toda; the name of the ward means "plank bridge" and derives from the wooden span over the Shakujii River that dates from the Heian period. Such a bridge was remarkable at the time, the name has lasted since. In the Edo period, the Nakasendō crossed the nearby Shimo Itabashi, the name came to apply to that area as well. Itabashi was one of the Four Edo Post Towns, travellers first lodged there after leaving the shogunal capital. Kaga Domain had a mansion there; the shogunate maintained the Itabashi execution grounds at Itabashi.
On October 1, 1932, nine towns and villages of Kita-Toshima District were merged and became part of Tokyo City as Itabashi Ward. It became a special ward May 3, 1947. On August 1 of that year, the localities of Nerima, Kami-Nerima, Naka-Arai, Shakujii and Ōizumi were split off from Itabashi to create Nerima Ward. Itabashi is home to four universities. Tokyo Kasei University has a campus in the Kaga neighborhood. In Kaga is the main campus of Teikyo University. Daito Bunka University has one campus in Takashima-daira, another in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama; the fourth is the medical college of Nihon University. Public elementary and middle schools are operated by the Itabashi Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education. Itabashi High School Itabashi Yutoku Kitatoshima Technical High School Kitazono High School Ohyama High School Takashima High School Tokyo Third Korean Elementary School – North Korean school Akatsuka Botanical Garden Itabashi Botanical Garden Jorenji temple and the Daibutsu of Tokyo Jōhoku-Chūō Park East Japan Railway Company Saikyō Line: Itabashi Station, Ukima-Funado Station Toei Mita Line: Shin-Itabashi, Itabashi Kuyakusho-mae, Itabashi-Honchō, Moto-Hasunuma, Shimura Sakaue, Shimura-Sanchōme, Nishidai, Shin-Takashimadaira, Nishi-Takashimadaira Stations Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line: Chikatetsu Narimasu Station Tōbu Tōjō Line: Ōyama, Naka-Itabashi, Kami-Itabashi, Tobu-Nerima, Shimo-Akatsuka, Narimasu StationsSome of these stations straddle the boundaries with other wards, or are within walking distance of Itabashi.
The addresses of some stations are in neighboring wards. Shimo-Itabashi Station is in Toshima. Shuto Expressway No.5 Ikebukuro Route C2 Central Loop Other locations with the same kanji: Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan Pangyo, South Korea Banqiao Itabashi City Official Website
Matsudo
Matsudo is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2016, the city has an estimated population of 483,796, a population density of 7,880 persons per km2; the total area is 61.38 square kilometres. Matsudo is located in the far northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, bordered by the Edo River to the west. Chiba Prefecture Ichikawa Kashiwa Nagareyama KamagayaSaitama Prefecture Misato Tokyo Edogawa-ku Katsushika-ku The area around Matsudo has been inhabited since prehistoric times, archaeologists have found remains from the Jōmon period, as well as burial tumuli from the Kofun period. During the Edo period, the area was tenryō controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, contained a number of horse ranches providing war horses for the Shōgun’s armies, it developed as a post station on the Mito Kaido connecting Edo with Mito. After the Meiji Restoration, Matsudo Town was created in Higashikatsushika District Chiba Prefecture in 1878. Matsudo attained city status on October 1, 1943.
On September 1, 1954, the neighboring town of Kashiwa merged with neighboring Kogane Town and Tsuchi and Tanaka villages to form the new city of Tokatsu. However, many politicians in Kogane Town were vehemently opposed to the merger, forced its dissolution on October 15, 1954 with most of former Kogane Town merging with Matsudo instead. Beginning in the 1960s, the rapid economic growth in Japan led to a construction boom in Matsudo and the development of the area as a major suburb of Tokyo. Matsudo is now the third-largest city in Chiba Prefecture and a major bedroom community in the Greater Tokyo Area. Matsudo is a bedroom community for nearby Chiba and Tokyo; the city has a mixed industrial base. The small electric motor manufacturer, Mabuchi Motor is headquartered in Matsudo. Chiba University, Matsudo Campus Nihon University, Matsudo Dental Campus Seitoku University Ryutsu Keizai University, Matsudo Campus Seitoku University Junior College Matsudo has 44 public and one private elementary school, 20 public and two private middle schools, eight public and two private high schools.
Velodrome: Matsudo Velodrome East Japan Railway Company - Jōban Line Matsudo - Kita-Matsudo - Mabashi - Shim-Matsudo - Kita-Kogane East Japan Railway Company - Musashino Line Shim-Matsudo - Shin-Yahashira - Higashi-Matsudo Shin-Keisei Electric Railway - Shin-Keisei Line Matsudo - Kamihongō - Matsudo-Shinden - Minoridai - Yabashira - Tokiwadaira - Gokō - Motoyama Hokuso Railway Company - Hokuso Line Yagiri - Akiyama - Higashi-Matsudo - Matsuhidai Keisei Electric Railway - Keisei Narita Airport Line Higashi-Matsudo Tobu Railway – Tobu Urban Park Line Mutsumi Ryūtetsu – Nagareyama Line Mabashi-Kōya - Kogane-Jōshi - Hiregasaki Tokyo Gaikan Expressway National Route 6 National Route 298 National Route 464 Manman-ji – Buddhist temple Showa no Mori Museum – Box Hill, Australia, since May 12, 1971. When Box Hill amalgamated with Nunawading in December 1994, the relationship was re-affirmed with the new City of Whitehorse. A small, multi-story department store attached to Matsudo train station bears the name "Box Hill".
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, song and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality and immediacy of the experience; the specific place of the performance is named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον, itself from θεάομαι. Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, many of its themes, stock characters, plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavis defines theatricality, theatrical language, stage writing and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts and the arts in general.
Modern theatre includes performances of musical theatre. The art forms of ballet and opera are theatre and use many conventions such as acting and staging, they were influential to the development of musical theatre. The city-state of Athens is, it was part of a broader culture of theatricality and performance in classical Greece that included festivals, religious rituals, law and gymnastics, poetry, weddings and symposia. Participation in the city-state's many festivals—and mandatory attendance at the City Dionysia as an audience member in particular—was an important part of citizenship. Civic participation involved the evaluation of the rhetoric of orators evidenced in performances in the law-court or political assembly, both of which were understood as analogous to the theatre and came to absorb its dramatic vocabulary; the Greeks developed the concepts of dramatic criticism and theatre architecture. Actors were either amateur or at best semi-professional; the theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama: tragedy and the satyr play.
The origins of theatre in ancient Greece, according to Aristotle, the first theoretician of theatre, are to be found in the festivals that honoured Dionysus. The performances were given in semi-circular auditoria cut into hillsides, capable of seating 10,000–20,000 people; the stage consisted of a dancing floor, dressing scene-building area. Since the words were the most important part, good acoustics and clear delivery were paramount; the actors wore masks appropriate to the characters they represented, each might play several parts. Athenian tragedy—the oldest surviving form of tragedy—is a type of dance-drama that formed an important part of the theatrical culture of the city-state. Having emerged sometime during the 6th century BCE, it flowered during the 5th century BCE, continued to be popular until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. No tragedies from the 6th century BCE and only 32 of the more than a thousand that were performed in during the 5th century BCE have survived. We have complete texts extant by Aeschylus and Euripides.
The origins of tragedy remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE it was institutionalised in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating Dionysus. As contestants in the City Dionysia's competition playwrights were required to present a tetralogy of plays, which consisted of three tragedies and one satyr play; the performance of tragedies at the City Dionysia may have begun as early as 534 BCE. Most Athenian tragedies dramatise events from Greek mythology, though The Persians—which stages the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE—is the notable exception in the surviving drama; when Aeschylus won first prize for it at the City Dionysia in 472 BCE, he had been writing tragedies for more than 25 years, yet its tragic treatment of recent history is the earliest example of drama to survive. More than 130 years the philosopher Aristotle analysed 5th-century Athenian tragedy in the oldest surviving work of dramatic theory—his Poetics. Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods, "Old Comedy", "Middle Comedy", "New Comedy".
Old Comedy survives today in the form of the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes, while Middle Comedy is lost. New Comedy is known from the substantial papyrus fragments of Menander. Aristotle defined comedy as a representation of laughable people that involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster. In addition to the categories of comedy and tragedy at the City Dionysia, the festival included the Satyr Play. Finding its origins in rural, agricultural rituals dedicated to Dionysus, the satyr play found its way to Athens in its most well-known form. Satyr's themselves were tied to the god Dionysus as his loyal woodland companions engaging in drunken revelry and mischief at his side; the satyr play itself was classified as tragicomedy, erring
