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SUMMARY:Movie screening & Talk “Ryuichi Hirokawa: Human Battlefield”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Ryuichi Hirokawa’s insightful talk and documentarty screening. A prolific photojournalist and humanitatiran Hirokawa has been devoted to covering the truth. This event follows his life and work from Palestine\, to Chernobyl\, Fukushima\, and Kumejima island in Okinawa.   \nRyuichi Hirokawa started working as a journalist in 1967 in Israel and Palestine. In 1982\, he photographed the tragic massacre that occurred in the Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon. In 1989\, as the first western journalist he documented the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown. He refers to this place where all human dignity is taken away as a “human battlefield.” \nHis career is not only as a photojournalist. He established organizations for the care of children\, namely the “Japanese Committee for the Children of Palestine” and “Chernobyl Children’s Fund”. He also built a recreation center called “Kumi no Sato” in Kumejima island in Okinawa for the recovery of children affected by the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in 2011. In 2014\, he resigned as the editor-in-chief of a photo journal “DAYS JAPAN” after 10 year position.  \nHirokawa’s life is devoted to covering the truth. This documentary follows his life from Palestine\, Chernobyl to Fukushima\, and Kumejima island in Okinawa.   \nDirected by Saburo Hasegawa\, who won the 1st prize of ‘Kinema Jumpo the Best 10 Cultural Film Award’ and ‘Mainichi Film Contest for the Documentary’ in “ Japan Lies-The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima\, Age 90.” Filmed by Hiroshi Yamazaki\, the expert of documentary film\, engaged in the films directed by Hirokazu Koreeda or Naomi Kawase.\n\n\nRyuichi Hirokawa\n1943    Born
\n1967    Graduated from Waseda University\,
\n1967­ – 70    Moved to Israel\,
\n1970    Returned to Japan\, continue reporting on the Middle East and Chernobyl nuclear accident etc. as a photo journalist
\n1982    Reported Sabra and Shatila massacre.
\n2003    Published and became Chief Editor of the monthly photojournalism magazine\, DAYS JAPAN.
\n2011    Started to report on Fukusima from a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Launched a fund raising campaign to donate radiation measurement instruments and DAYS JAPAN SUPPORT FUND FOR THE CHILDREN OF FUKUSHIMA and in July\, established KUMI NO SATO\, a recuperation center for the children of Fukushima exposed to radiation in Kume Island\, Okinawa.
\n2014    Retired Chief Editor of the monthly photojournalism magazine DAYS JAPAN and has become the Publisher and a freelance photojournalist.
Lives in Tokyo.  \nSelected Publications and Prizes  \n1982    Yomiuri Newspaper Photo Grand Prize for his photos of the Lebanese War and the massacre at the Palestinian refugee camp”\n1983    Grand Prize and Gold Prize at the IOJ International Organization of Journalist contest.by photos above.\n1989    Kodansha Publication Culture Award\, Photography Award for his reports of the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear plant accidents\n1993    Sankei News Children’s Book Award for “From Chernobyl­Teacher Nina and Children”\, Shogakukan publishers\, 1992\n1998    Japan Journalist Congress Special Prize for “The battlefield of Human Beings”\, Shincho­sha\, publishers\, 1998\n1999    Peace & Cooperative Journalist Fund of Japan Award for his photograph collection “The lost 458 villages of Chernobyl”\, Nihon Tosho Centre Co.\, Ltd.\,\n2001    Photo City Sagamihara Award also for the above collection\n2002    The Waseda Univ. Journalism Award for ”Palestine” : New Edition\, Iwanami Shoten\, publishers 2002\n2003    Photographic Society of Japan\, Award of the Year\, the 22nd Domon Ken Award for A Photographic Record : Palestine\, Nihon Tosho Centre Co.\, Ltd.\, 2002 Iwanami Photographic Documentary : From the Battlefields of the world­ The Victims of the Anti­Terror War\, Iwanami Shoten publishers\n2004    Iwanami Photographic Documentary : From the Battlefields of the World­War and Photojournalism\, Iwanami Shoten\n2008    Puroduced a theater documentary film of “Palestine in 1948: NAKBA” (Japanese\, English\, French\, Arabic versions) commemoration the 60th year after the emergence of Palestine refugees.\n2009    Consecutively produced a DVD series (30 volumes in Japanese and English).\n2012    Published photo book The Human Battlefield.\n2015    The documentary film of him\, “RYUICHI HIROKAWA human battlefield” has\nbeen released.
many other works including co­authored books\, translations\, etc.\n\n\n[Related Exhibition]\nDAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Awards Exhibition \n[Fee]\nFREE \n[Language]\nJapanese\n\nOrganized by Kyoto Museum for World Peace\, Ritsumeikan University
URL:https://2015.kyotographie.jp/en/event/movie-talk-hirokawa
LOCATION:Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus Jukokan Hall / room 301\, 京都市北区等持院北町北区等持院北町56\, Japan
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