File includes a Japanese newspaper article featuring Fusé’s commentary on the legacy of the 59th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War. Fusé shares his recollection of the end of the war, war films, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and his perspective on Japanese war crimes in China, particularly those committed by Shiro Ishii’s Unit 731. This article was printed on August 6th, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
File includes Fusé’s drafts of his unpublished book on Subhas Chandra Bose and the Greater East Asia Conference and one newspaper article on the Indian National Army, a collaborationist army led by Bose in aid of the Japanese empire.
File includes Japanese author Takahiko Soejima’s perspectives on the death of Hindu nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose during the Second World War. Fusé’s annotations appear in red ink.
File includes Fusé’s personal recollection of seeing Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose in person as Bose and other Asian leaders arrived for the Greater East Asia Conference hosted by the Empire of Japan in 1943. Fusé describes his experience going to Tokyo with his father to witness the event, expresses his admiration for Bose and his long-held desire to write a book about Bose.
File includes articles compiled by Fusé on the subject of Subhas Chandra Bose’s leadership of the Indian National Army during the Second World War, the Subhas Chandra Bose Academy and information on and correspondence with prospective Japanese publishers for the Bose book Fusé wanted to write.
File includes reproductions of newspaper coverage from the Hokkaido Shimbun of the Greater East Asia Conference. Fusé was 12 years old when the conference took place and bore witness to the arrival of East and Southeast Asian delegates in Tokyo, Japan.
File includes a manuscript for Toyomasa Fusé’s finding on the study of “Seppuku as a Ritual Suicide.” File also includes notes from Fusé’s spouse Lois Fusé, which provides the background history of the manuscript.
File includes memoir writing composed by Fusé, instructions for entering the seniors’ memoir writing contest and articles in Japanese and English respectively.
File includes correspondence with Shosuke Nawa, an employee of the Hokkaido Shimbun, regarding a double suicide and assistance with research on the Showa Era (1926-1989) and Subhas Chandra Bose. Two Hokkaido Shimbun news articles are attached to Nawa’s letter. Lois Fusé’s annotations on the original envelope provide some context for the articles enclosed.
File includes two copies of bits magazine, a Japanese Canadian magazine based in Toronto. It includes an interview with Fusé regarding his work in Suicidology and his perspective on the topic of suicide in Japan.
File includes an event poster for A Special Suicide Study Rounds for Ontario Suicide Prevention Week, where Fusé appeared as a guest speaker on the topic of “Suicidology: Some Remaining Problems for Future Research.”
File includes two testimonials written by Dr. Alvin L. Evans, Professor Emertius at St. Paul’s College, for Fusé’s book “Suicide, Individual and Society,” which was published by Canadian Scholar’s Press.
File includes three Japanese pamphlets with articles by Fusé on the topics of mental health and suicide prevention. One pamphlet is related to Fusé’s book Jisatsu to bunka (translation: Suicide and Culture). The other two pamphlets were distributed by a social welfare organization.
File includes an introduction written by Fusé for an unknown publication. To advocate the need for suicide prevention, Fusé tells the story of two individuals who committed suicide, which he had previously featured in one of his books.
File includes three articles published by York University (including York Gazette) that feature interviews with Fusé. Titles include “Measuring Tragedy,” “Global suicide rates reveal surprising patterns,” and “The Pen is Mightier than the Couch.”
File includes newspaper clippings of the article “Suicide rates and The Swedish Lie” by Robert Fulford of the Financial Times of Canada. Fusé is interviewed regarding the Swedish Lie, a phrase originally coined from misinformation on Swedish suicide rates by United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
File includes a letter from the New York Times’ Tokyo correspondent David E. Sanger and a photocopy of Sanger’s article on the suicide of Ihei Aoki, a close aide of former Japanese prime minister Noboru Takeshita. Fusé contributed his expertise in the cultural importance of suicide throughout Japanese history to Sanger’s article.
File includes a newspaper clipping from the Swiss newspaper La Suisse, which tells the story of singer Yukiko Okada’s suicide and that of Yoshiaki Kobayashi, a teenager. Fusé’s expert opinion is that the adjustment period during a shift to new environments can be stressful. For young Japanese people, these changes in relation to schooling and employment often occur in April.
File includes a copy of the Japanese music magazine “Music Communication.” Fusé’s article on “Stress and Music Therapy” is included in the magazine on page 134.
File includes a collection of writing and lectures featuring Japanese Canadians’ lived experiences and areas of concern and expertise, which they shared with the Annex drop-in centre, which was a community space for Japanese Canadians located in the East York neighbourhood of Toronto. Fusé’s 1979 guest lecture on “Loneliness and Suicide” is transcribed in this collection.
File includes three issues of Rikka: The Six Beautiful Essences, a Japanese Canadian magazine. Fusé contributed articles and served on the magazine’s Board of Editors.
File includes two articles written by Fusé on the topic of the Kazoku, the Japanese nobility. The Japanese article is a translation of the English original, first published in the second volume of the journal Asia Quarterly in 1972.
File includes Fusé’s contribution to Margaret Scotford Archer (editor)’s comparative sociological volume Students, University and Society, titled “Education in Japan.”
File includes Fusé’s article in Concilium: Church and World, issue number 4, titled “Religious Institutions in the Light of Sociological Theories of Institution. File also includes the article in German.
File includes Fusé’s invitation from Bengt Thordeman to the Nobel Prize presentation ceremony for Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
File includes Fusé’s dissertation “A Sociological Analysis of Neo-Orthodoxy in American Protestantism: A Study in the Sociology of Religion,” submitted to the University of California.
File includes Fusé’s contributions to the essayist collective Goji Tsushin, where authors agreed to each write essays at the same time each month, at 5:00 on the 5th day of the month), publish and share their work. File also includes a copy of Goji Tsushin’s publication and Lois Fusé’s english translation of a letter she sent to the other members of Goji Tsushin after her husband’s death.
File includes two newspaper articles, in English and Japanese respectively. The English article features an interview with Fusé’s friend Frank Jones, who recounts stories Fusé shared regarding his childhood during the United States Occupation of Japan and his first experiences living in the U.S. The Japanese article discusses Fusé’s scholarship to study in the U.S. and his academic career in North America.
File includes a signed letter from United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy after Fusé wrote to him regarding the Vietnam War. File also includes a copy of the US Congressional Record regarding Kennedy’s position on the Vietnam War.
File includes handwritten notes, newspapers, emails and information on the Tora-san film series, which were used during informal meetings of the Toronto fanclub for Tora-san. The Japanese-Canadian newspaper clipping includes a photo of Fusé, founder of the fanclub, with Yoji Yamada, the director of Tora-san.
File includes correspondence and notes in Japanese and English regarding a planned joint-lecture about the film “Tora-san,” which would be discussed by the film’s director Yoji Yamada and lead actor Kiyoshi Atsumi in Toronto. Fusé writes to Mamoru Iwamoto, Executive Director of JETRO regarding the reply he received from Toshio Hatano, the New York Bureau President of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. File also includes a letter written to Fusé by Kiyo Kurosu, a general manager working for Shochiku Corporation (a Japanese entertainment company)’s International Division.
File includes a total of 9 photographs. File includes 8 photos featuring Toyomasa and Lois Fusé with “Tora-san” director Yoji Yamada and actor Kiyoshi Atsumi first in Japan and later in Toronto. File also includes one photograph of director Denys Arcand in the Fusé home.
File includes Fusé’s speech to the members of the Mickey Club, a public speaking organization. Fusé discusses Japan’s post-war cultural shifts and his own exposure to Western culture through watching films from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union. He recommends that his audience watch movies from other cultures to broaden their understanding of the world.
File includes a photograph of Toyomasa Fusé, Lois Fusé, their son Kenji with many of Toyomasa Fusé’s high school friends as they gathered for a dinner in honour of the Fusé family on their visit to Fusé’s birthplace, the city of Sapporo. File also includes the guestlist for the dinner, outlining their connection to Toyomasa Fusé.
File includes one copy of the August 1985 issue of Ontario Living Magazine. The home that the Fusé family owned from 1976 to 2003 is featured for its traditional Japanese interior design aesthetics.
File includes 9 photogaphs of Fusé as a young adult, as he attended Missouri Valley College during his undergraduate studies and the University of California, Berkeley for his graduate and doctoral studies.
File includes photographs of members of the Fusé family in Sapporo during Toyomasa Fusé’s childhood and young adulthood. It also includes a photograph of the Fusé family tomb in a Sapporo cemetery.
File includes Fusé’s writings in French. Topics include his travel to France, French politics, Japanese society and film,, and multiculturalism in Canada.
File includes Fusé’s personal translation of Momozo Kurata (also known as Hyakuzo Kurata, 1891-1943)’s 1922 play “The Priest and thtet Disciple.” The translation is dedicated to Fusé’s aunt, who was a devout Buddhist.
File includes documents and correspondence related to Fusé’s role as Japanaese Socialist Party leader Seiichi Katsumata’s press secretary and interpreter during his tour of New York City and American universities.
File includes Fusé’s student identification card and library card from Hokkaido Sapporo High School, dated Showa 24 (1949), tickets to Ninomiya (1949) and Fusé’s membership card from the Student Christian Association at Missouri Valley College (1951)
File includes a Japanese newspaper article featuring a teenaged Toyomasa Fusé and one other Japanese student as they are congratulated by General Douglas MacArthur as two of four selected winners of the Garisa (?) Scholarships to study in the United States. Fusé is quoted as saying that he will be attending a university in Missouri. Lois Fusé’s note on the context of the picture is written on the exterior of the original file folder.
File consists of newspaper issues that highlight programs and performances that list Rudakoff in various roles. Issues included are volume 5, no. 3-5 plus a special programme issue. Volume 6, no. 1 is the Stage Free Press.
File consists of newspaper issues that highlight programs and performances that list Rudakoff in various roles. Issues included are volume 4, no. 2-4 and volume 5, no. 1-2. The Toronto Free Press became The Free Press for volume 4, no. 3.
File consists of newspaper issues that highlight programs and performances that list Rudakoff in various roles. Issues included are volume 3, no. 2-3 and volume 4, no. 1 (two versions) plus three special programme issues.
File consists of newspaper issues that highlight programs and performances that list Rudakoff in various roles. Issues included are volume 1, no. 1-4 and volume 2, no. 1-3.
File consists of material related to Rudakoff’s published books, videos, photographic documentation, programs and brochures, reviews and articles, and examples of lomograms, in support of her academic promotion.
File consists of course outlines, copies of published articles written by Rudakoff, award nomination correspondence, and course polls and data from students in support of her academic promotion.
File consists of newspaper articles and ephemera pertaining to the production of “The River,” specifically its run at the Yukon Arts Centre Studio at Nakai Theatre in Whitehorse. File also consists of postcards and greeting cards from the Yukon. “The River” was written by Rudakoff, David Skelton and Joseph Tisiga.
