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In the book "Japan in New York" [4] we are given: Large photos of the front of the Club, the Drawing Room and the Japan Room. The basic listing for the club states (p. 20): "The Nippon Club was organized in March, 1905, by the leading Japanese residents of the city and is now presided over by Dr. J. Takamine, which Mr. Rinichi Uchida is looking ...
The Japanese consulate in New York City stated that in 1992 there were about 16,000 Japanese people living in Westchester County, New York, and about 25-33% of the expatriates employed by the Japanese companies in the New York City area lived in Westchester County. Up to a few years before 2002, Japanese companies gave benefits to their staffs ...
Bunraku began in the 16th century. Puppets and bunraku were used in Japanese theatre as early as the Noh plays. Medieval records prove the use of puppets in Noh plays too. The puppets were 3–4 feet (0.91–1.22 m)-tall, and the dolls were manipulated by puppeteers in full view of the audience.
The music of New York City is a diverse and important ... Professional Yiddish theater in New York began in 1882 with a troupe ... and European and Japanese ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, Asian-American theatre companies were founded with more diverse purposes and styles. Companies such as Ma-Yi Theater Company (New York City) focus on producing new, original plays, as did the now-defunct Lodestone Theatre Ensemble (Los Angeles, 1999-2009).
A clip of Panorama from the Times Building, New York 1905, Bryant Park (and NYPL Building under construction) and Hippodrome Theater and Algonquin Hotel(upper-left corner behind the theater) Harry Houdini and Jennie the elephant performing at the Hippodrome The Hippodrome Building, built in 1951–52, at 1120 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth ...
The Minskoff Theatre, Booth Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, and John Golden Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District There are 41 active Broadway theaters listed by The Broadway League in New York City, as well as eight existing structures that previously hosted Broadway theatre. [a] Beginning with the first large long-term theater in the city ...
After the success of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, Japanese films began getting international distribution. [29] However, Japanese film exporters considered Ozu's work "too Japanese" and unmarketable. It was not until the 1960s that Ozu's films began to be screened in New York City at film festivals, museums, and ...