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University suspends Jerusalem study abroad program, offers updates on coronavirus

Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, March 10, 2020

The University announced the suspension of the Jerusalem study abroad program and offered updates regarding responses to COVID-19 in an email to the Notre Dame community Tuesday morning. “The University has suspended programs at the Jerusalem Global Gateway at Tantur and the Tantur Ecumenical Institute there after Israeli authorities closed the crossing between Jerusalem and

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Flashes in the Pan: LadiBree

Mike Donovan | Friday, September 27, 2019

Flashes in the Pan: LadiBree by Scenecast, from The Observer Editor’s Note: This is the second part in a series featuring local artists in the tri-campus community. “The sky is up! The sun is shining!” senior Bree Connor — a rapper who performs under the moniker LadiBree — pronounced, caffeinating the dreary Monday evening with

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Whitewashing in ‘Ghost in the Shell’

Adrian Mark Lore | Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The new live-action “Ghost in the Shell,” directed by Rupert Sanders, made its debut on the silver screen March 31. Though most casual moviegoers were likely unaware, the movie is a single entry in a popular Japanese anime and manga franchise — one of many films set in the same pseudo-dystopian universe. In fact, the original

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My American dream

Diversity Council | Monday, April 3, 2017

When I was 13 years old, I decided to attend college in the United States. I was born in Yokohama, Japan, and lived in Arcadia, California, from ages 3 to 11. I moved back to Yokohama after fifth grade. At 13, I still missed America badly. It was difficult to be myself in Japan. I look

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Author examines language of nuclear destruction

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Arthur Binard, a bilingual author, translator and antinuclear activist, delivered a lecture Monday afternoon in the LaFortune Center Ballroom that examined the terminology Japanese and Americans use to describe the bombings of Japan during World War II. At the end of the war, there was a general feeling of euphoria in the United States, but in Japan,

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Professor recalls rebuilding of Nagasaki

Jeremy Cappello Lee | Wednesday, September 10, 2014

In the first lecture of the “Nuclear Nightmares: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Historical Context” exhibit, Sr. Yoko Hamada, professor at Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University, delivered a historical account of the establishment, destruction and subsequent rebuilding of Junshin Girls’ School after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Hamada said part of the rebuilding efforts of Junshin Girls’ School after

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JRPGs Going Global

Jimmy Kemper | Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Once upon a time, long ago (three whole decades), a Japanese company named Squaresoft made some of the first roleplaying video games that took the world by storm. Known as JRPGs (for “Japanese roleplaying games”) Squaresoft’s roleplaying video games involved players controlling a protagonist in a story-based game, often set in a fantastical world. Today,