{"id":8411,"date":"2017-03-21T18:51:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T09:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kyotographie.jp\/en\/event\/movie-talk-hirokawa"},"modified":"2017-04-15T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:16:52","slug":"movie-talk-hirokawa","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/2015.kyotographie.jp\/en\/event\/movie-talk-hirokawa","title":{"rendered":"Movie screening & Talk \u201cRyuichi Hirokawa: Human Battlefield\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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. <\/p>\n

Ryuichi 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 \u201chuman battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

His career is not only as a photojournalist. He established organizations for the care of children, namely the \u201cJapanese Committee for the Children of Palestine\u201d and \u201cChernobyl Children\u2019s Fund\u201d. He also built a recreation center called \u201cKumi no Sato\u201d 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 \u201cDAYS JAPAN\u201d after 10 year position. <\/p>\n

Hirokawa\u2019s life is devoted to covering the truth. This documentary follows his life from Palestine, Chernobyl to Fukushima, and Kumejima island in Okinawa. <\/p>\n

Directed by Saburo Hasegawa, who won the 1st prize of \u2018Kinema Jumpo the Best 10 Cultural Film Award\u2019 and \u2018Mainichi Film Contest for the Documentary\u2019 in \u201c Japan Lies-The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90.\u201d Filmed by Hiroshi Yamazaki, the expert of documentary film, engaged in the films directed by Hirokazu Koreeda or Naomi Kawase.<\/div><\/div>\n

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Ryuichi Hirokawa<\/h5>\n

1943 Born\u2028
\n1967 Graduated from Waseda University,\u2028
\n1967\u00ad – 70 Moved to Israel,\u2028
\n1970 Returned to Japan, continue reporting on the Middle East and Chernobyl nuclear accident etc. as a photo journalist\u2028
\n1982 Reported Sabra and Shatila massacre.\u2028
\n2003 Published and became Chief Editor of the monthly photojournalism magazine, DAYS JAPAN.\u2028
\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.\u2028
\n2014 Retired Chief Editor of the monthly photojournalism magazine DAYS JAPAN and has become the Publisher and a freelance photojournalist.\u2028Lives in Tokyo. <\/p>\n

Selected Publications and Prizes <\/p>\n

1982 Yomiuri Newspaper Photo Grand Prize for his photos of the Lebanese War and the massacre at the Palestinian refugee camp\u201d
\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\u2019s Book Award for \u201cFrom Chernobyl\u00adTeacher Nina and Children\u201d, Shogakukan publishers, 1992
\n1998 Japan Journalist Congress Special Prize for \u201cThe battlefield of Human Beings\u201d, Shincho\u00adsha, publishers, 1998
\n1999 Peace & Cooperative Journalist Fund of Japan Award for his photograph collection \u201cThe lost 458 villages of Chernobyl\u201d, Nihon Tosho Centre Co., Ltd.,
\n2001 Photo City Sagamihara Award also for the above collection
\n2002 The Waseda Univ. Journalism Award for \u201dPalestine\u201d : 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\u00ad The Victims of the Anti\u00adTerror War, Iwanami Shoten publishers
\n2004 Iwanami Photographic Documentary : From the Battlefields of the World\u00adWar and Photojournalism, Iwanami Shoten
\n2008 Puroduced a theater documentary film of \u201cPalestine in 1948: NAKBA\u201d (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, \u201cRYUICHI HIROKAWA human battlefield\u201d has
\nbeen released.\u2028many other works including co\u00adauthored books, translations, etc.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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[Related Exhibition]<\/h5>\n

DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Awards Exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n

[Fee]<\/h5>\n

FREE<\/p>\n

[Language]<\/h5>\n

Japanese
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<\/div>\nOrganized by Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
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