Tomoko sawada biography of mahatma gandhi
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Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary
In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating, but it was a heady time for the Japanese nonetheless. That year, the Japanese commemorated the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Empire of Japan. According to the imperial myth-history, Emperor Jimmu, descended from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, established the "unbroken imperial line" in 660 BCE. In carefully choreographed ceremonies throughout the empire, through new public monuments, with visual culture, and through heritage tourism, the Japanese celebrated the extension of imperial rule beneath the 124th emperor, Hirohito.
These celebrations, the climactic moment for the ideology that was huvud to modern Japan's identity until the imperial cult's legitimacy was bruised by defeat in 1945, are little known outside Japan. Imperial Japan at Its Zenith, the first book i
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Mahatma Gandhi
- “You are just in time, my small friend. A new era is dawning for the people of India. Thank you, Mario, I shall not forget you.”
- —Mahatma Gandhi, Mario's Time Machine (PC)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), better known by his honorific, Mahatma, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who was instrumental in helping India gain its independence from the United Kingdom. He campaigned through nonviolent tactics and actively sought to prevent bloodshed against anyone. Through imprisonment, riots, and a massacre against the Indian people, Gandhi maintained his passiveness, and he became a persuasive and highly revered figure in India. Gandhi eventually succeeded in realizing an independent India in 1947, though he was assassinated in 1948. At the time of India's first day of independence, Gandhi was in Calcutta, attempting to quell some of the emerging riots, but according to Mari
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Ayelet Zohar
Recently, I was elected as the President of the Japan Art History Forum (JAHF), for the 2023-2026 term. I thank JAHF members who have elected me, and looking forward to making JAHF more global, and the presence of Japanese art research and our forum on different platforms in the global context.
I wrote my MA thesis (summa cum laude) on "Morimura Yasumasa and the Question of Transcultural Mimicry" (Tel Aviv University, 2000). My PhD research was taken at the University of London (UCL/ Slade School of Fine Art), under the supervision of Professor Norman Bryson, titled: "Strategies of Camouflage: Invisibility, Schizoanalysis and Multifocality in Contemporary Visual Art" (University of London, 2007). Then, spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University in California (2007-9), followed by a second Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution