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Cinema Cinema: “Furyo” Interview with Toyomasa Fusé and Naoko Hata

Item includes one VHS cassette featuring Fusé and Naoko Hata’s interview on the subject matter of the film “Furyo” or “Goodbye Mr. Lawrence” on the French Canadian program “Cinema Cinema.” Fusé and Hata provide their lived experience and knowledge of Japan and the Japanese military during the Second World War. Fusé also provides his expertise on the tradition of seppuku, suicide by disembowlment.

Jerusalem On Line: Suicide Help Line Conference in Jerusalem

Item includes one VHS cassette featuring Fusé and Tal Perry’s interview on Jerusalem On Line, an Israeli news program hosted by Mike Greenspan. Fusé and Perry, the director of the Jerusalem-based crisis helpline Eran. both participated in the Crisis Help Line conference in Tel Aviv. The interview centres on the training and importance of crisis services. The segment begins at the timestamp 00:10:00 and ends at 00:20:21. They discuss the difference between “telephone befriending” and psychotherapy when speaking with people in distress. Fusé also discusses the growth of crisis helplines in post-Soviet Union nation states, which were not accessible before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Suicide and Culture Interview, Scene et Mirroir: “Japan, Inc.”

Item includes an interview with Fusé conducted in English regarding his book “Suicide and Culture,” an interview with Fusé conducted in French regarding the 1980 National Film Board (NFB) Documentary “Japan, Inc.” and recordings of contemporaneous Japanese televsion shows and advertisements. The first interview (in English) with Fusé begins at timestamp 00:02:00 and ends at timestamp 00:11:00. Fusé discusses his book “Suicide and Culture,” the “Hungary Pattern” of suicide and the increase of suicidal ideation with age in some cultures and Japan’s history of suicides for atonement, such as the two suicides of aviation crew members in the aftermath of the Japan Airlines Flight 123 tragedy in which 520 passengers were killed. The second interview (in French) begins at the timestamp 00:11:30 an ends at 00:57:50, with discussion of the documentary “Japan, Inc.” an NFB documentary about the fast-paced and collective-focused work culture in Japan and the lessons it could hold for more individualistic Western work cultures. From timestamp 01:11:00 to the end of the tape at 01:19:33

NHK Educational Programming: How to Face Death with Professor Alfons Deeken

Item includes one VHS cassette featuring Professor Alfons Deeken’s 9-part educational series “How to Face Death,” which was originally broadcast on Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1993, and the CBC Radio-Canada documentary “Cine Club: Voyage a Tokyo,” which was likely also recorded in 1993. “How to Face Death” is separated into the following 9 parts: 1. Introduction (00:00:00 to 00:30:00), 2. Grief Work (00:30:00 to 00:37:25), 3. 12 Stages of Grief (00:38:00 to 01:06:00), 4. Fear of Death and Death in Art (01:08:00 to 01:37:00), 5. Hospice Care, 6 Stages of Grief and Life Review Therapy (01:38:00 to 02:07:00), 7. How Children Process Death (02:38:00 to 03:07:20); 8. Thnking about Your Mortality, Life Review Therapy and Preparing for Death (03:08:00 to 03:37:00) and 9. Hospice Care (03:38:00 to 04:07:00). “Cine Club: Voyage a Tokyo,” is documentary film analysis of the central themes used in the 1953 film Voyage a Tokyo (also known as Tokyo Story in English and Tokyo Monogatari in Japanese). It frames “Tokyo Story” as the seminal postwar depiction of Japanese family life already drastically different from the traditions and family structure of that of the first half of the 20th Century, and contrasts it with life in Tokyo during the 1980s and 1990s, with its many technological advances, Westernized lifestyles and social problems. Included in both the film and the documentary is a focus on the Japanese relationship with the dead.

Couchiching Conference 1987: The Future of the American Empire

Item includes a recording of the 56th Couchiching Conference (1987), which includes a discussion featuring Fusé and Black activist Jan Douglass on the World After America Panel. The panel begins at timestamp 00:38:10 and ends at 00:56:00. Fusé talks about his early years as a student studying in the United States in the 1950s and his eventual disillusionment with the country due to what he perceived to be its “moral and visionary decay” from the late 1960s onward, where the pursuit of “freedom” and “Individual pleasure” led to “excessive individualism.” Fusé also discusses the possible causes of higher suicide rates in Canada (14% in 1987) compared to the United States (12% in 1987).

Fusé Lecture

Item includes a recording of Fusé’s suicide seminar at a Buddhist organization in 2003. In the lecture, Fusé provides the Western etmology of the word ‘suicide,’ and its negative connotations (e.g. being defined as self-murder) in Western countries and contrasts it with over 30 different terms used to describe acts of suicide in Japanese, with indication of the motive and the number of people involved in the suicide. He makes additional references to Eastern and Western cultural differences as he compares Western individualism to Japanese collectivism, which are further showcased in the Western film “Shane” (1953) and the Japanese comedy “Tora-san.” As this lecture took place during the Iraq War, Fusé discusses the suicide attacks committed by Al-Qaeda hijackers that crashed two passenger airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. He explains that the tragedy caused his pacifist stance to waver momentarily and reignited memories of his own wartime experience, with memories of kamikaze pilots flying overhead and his military training as a teenager in the final years of the Second World War that prepared him for the same fate, had the war not ended in 1945.

CBC Sunday Morning: Recruit Scandal

Item includes a sound recording of the program CBC Sunday Morning, which features an interview with Fusé on the topic of the Recruit Scandal in Japan. Fusé provides an expert analysis of the scandal and how the suicide of Ihei Aoki, an aide to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, relates to Japan’s samurai culture. On Side A of the cassette, Fusé’s interview starts from the beginning of the tape and ends at the timestamp 9 minutes, 30 seconds.

Canada This Week: Fusé Interview

Item includes a sound recording of the Radio-Canada International program “Canada This Week” featuring an interview with Fusé. On Side A of the cassette, Fusé engages in a conversation with the host on the topics of biculturalism and billingualism. Total duration of Side A is 27 minutes and Fusé’s segment begins at the timestamp 14 minutes, 0 seconds and ends at the timestamp 18 minutes, 0 seconds. On Side B of the cassette, Fusé discusses the difference between the cultural identifies of people living in Ontario and Quebec. Total duration of Side B is 26 minutes, 30 seconds and Fusé’s segment begins at the timestamp 14 minutes and ends at the timestamp 17 minutes, 20 seconds.

Canada This Week: Fusé Interview

Item includes a sound recording of the Radio-Canada International program “Canada This Week,” featuring an interview with Fusé. On Side A, Fusé’s segment starts at the timestamp 19 minutes nd 20 seconds. Fusé discusses the film series Toro-san and suicide.

Canada This Week: Fusé Interview

Item includes a recording of the Radio-Canada International program Canada This Week, featuring interviews with Fusé. Side A includes an interview with Fusé on the topic of Quebec. Side B includes an interview with Fusé at timestamp 8 minutes, on the topic of cultural changes occuring in the City of Montreal.

Canada This Week

Item includes a sound recording of the Radio-Canada International program “Canada This Week.” Total duration of Side A is 27 minutes, 20 seconds. Total duration of Side B is 27 minutes, 20 seconds.

Drafts

File includes drafts of an unpublished manuscript by Fusé.

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