Both
Japan and the
United States signed an agreement Friday to send a Japanese astronaut to
Gateway, a lunar-orbiting space station to be built by NASA. Closer to home,
Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota returned to Japan last Friday after being released from a Myanmar prison the previous day. And screenplays written by Akira Kurosawa are on display at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, a display of artefact and historical record with scripts written for other directors and rediscovered unscreened screenplays that combined reveal the secrets of
Akira Kurosawa, the screenwriter.
