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10 April, 2007 5:35 PM
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No. 493
JAPANESE JOURNALIST MAKING IRAQ WAR TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES It has come to my attention that Japanese journalist Takeharu Watai is making a tour of the United States regarding the Iraq War. According to the information, he will be going to the cities of Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, Austin, and New York. In the Bay area, the mother of Lt. Ehren Watada will also be featured. Watada is the Japanese-American army officer who refused deployment to Iraq. As for Takeharu Watai himself, it will be recalled that the Shingetsu Institute has previously translated one of his articles from Sekai magazine entitled: “Collapsed Friendship: The Hostility Toward the SDF.” This translation can be found at the end of Shingetsu Newsletter No. 136 from December 2005.
Description: Winner of the 2005 Human Rights Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, the independently-produced documentary, "Little Birds" is a result of 123 hours of footage shot in Iraq over a span of a year and a half by Japan's award-winning video journalist, Takeharu Watai. Edited down to 102 minutes and released in Japanese theaters last year, the film has since then been screened over 200 times domestically. A freelance journalist, Watai began filming on March 2003, before the invasion of Iraq. On the surface all is calm on the streets of Baghdad but from there, as the aerial attacks begin and destruction engulfs the country, the viewer is forced to confront a reality far different from what the mainstream media around the world has reported. Director Profile: Takeharu Watai, born in 1971 in Japan. Watai is a freelance video journalist and a member of Asia Press International, a news agency consisting of a group of independent journalists. His extensive experience covering conflict-ridden areas around the globe include reports of the crisis in Sudan, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. For his reporting activities, he received the 2003 Vaughn-Ueda Awards Special Prize and the 41st Galaxy Awards Excellent Reporting Prize. In 2005, he published a book by the same title, Little Birds.
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