Hiroshima has an excellent Cinematographic Library which shows classic cinema throughout the year at very reasonable prices. It may be churlish to complain, but most of the films are either in Japanese without English subtitles, or “foreign” language films with Japanese subtitles.
Between February 22 and March 10, however, the library is screening a series of 15 classic documentary films directed by Frederick Wiseman. All but one of them are in English.
Applications are now open for this year’s “Hiroshima and Peace” intensive summer courses at Hiroshima City University to be held July 31 – August 9.
The two courses, one for undergraduate students and another for graduates, usually attract a very international mix of participants and is very reasonably priced.
4 students from Anabuki College in Fukuyama moe-ed up the local blood donation clinic by turning it into a maid cafe for two days this week.
In an effort to boost donations at a time of year when they typically drop off, and to try and spark interest in donating blood among the young people, the students college’s Media Business Department came up with a plan to give the local donation clinic a bit of otaku cool, by turning it into a maid cafe.
Hiroshima prefecture is taking the unusual a step of introducing a local tax break for purchasers of new “clean diesel” cars.
