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  1. People’s Century (Parts 13-15) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Jennifer Clayton; Charles Furneaux; Bill Treharne Jones
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 165 min.

    A history of 20th century in 26 parts as seen from the point of view of ordinary people who have lived through the events. Includes interviews and extensive archive footage. 13 (producer: Jennifer Clayton):...

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  2. Changing the Mould: Reformist Trends in Japanese Education (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Meg Sheffield
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Although the Japanese educational system is thought to be both advanced and extremely important in the lives of all Japanese, it is not regarded by them or by their educationists as completely satisfactory....

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  3. Going to School in Japan (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Meg Sheffield
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Japan has had a unifed state education system since 1872 and like the UK’s, it is both free and compulsory and deals with approximately the same subjects: the three Rs, science, history, literature,...

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  4. Re-Inventing Japan (1991 Video)

    Director
    Bob Bee
    Producer
    Bob Bee
    Subject
    Economics; Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    Examines the thinking underlying the recent reorientation in Japanese policy towards investing more heavily in pure science, and a consideration of the relationship between success in pure science and...

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  5. Japan Dreaming (1990 Video)

    Director
    Sue Clayton
    Producer
    Sue Clayton
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at Japan’s dream of a future which will be clean, serene and bursting with new-age technology. New areas of research (fuzzy logic, opto-neural computers) have pushed the frontiers of traditional...

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  6. Of Gann and Genes (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Brenton
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Cancer is always associated with the alteration of the genetic material, and many cancer-causing genes, or oncogenes, have now been identified. However, the exact causes of the disease, and the reasons why...

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  7. Haiku (1970 Film)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Aims to assist in developing an appreciation of the deeper, more perceptive meaning to be found in haiku, a form of Japanese poetry.

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  8. Japanese Farmers (1969 Film)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Japanese farmers integrate modern technology into their peasant agriculture and horticulture to produce crops very intensively under difficult conditions to achieve high productivity from limited available...

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