You can now order a new magazine with three Yoko Ono related articles

a) War Is Over! in Tokyo (Kevin Concannon’s detailed study)

b) Yoko’s 1964 statements translated from a rare documentary film by Nagano Chiaki

c) Yoko’s feminist satire (1973), “The Saga of Japanese Men Sinking” (translation)

These articles appear in Josai University’s Review of Japanese Culture and Society Vol. 17 (December 2005)
Special Issue = 1960s Japan: Art Outside the Box
Guest edited by Reiko Tomii

How to order

IN THE US, YOU CAN BUY IT FROM THE GUEST EDITOR
1) First, please e-mail Reiko Tomii at Post1945JA@aol.com and give her your name and mailing address as exactly it should appear on the mailing label.

2) Then, send her your check of $20 (including priority mail postage) to
Reiko Tomii
95 Christopher Street, #3D
New York, NY 10014

For outside U.S. please consult.


HOW TO ORDER FROM JOSAI UNIVERSITY

1) Inside Japan: ¥2,000
Please pay by postal transfer (Tokyo 6-62423)
Please specify issue 17: 1960s Japan

2) All other countries:
U.S. $25 ($20 + s&h $5)
Allow up to 21 days for delivery

Make all checks payable to
“Review of Japanese Culture and Society”
Please specify issue 17: 1960s Japan

Send check or international money order to
Josai International Center for the
Promotion of Art and Science
Josai University
1-1 Keyakidai
Sakado, Saitama 350-0295 JAPAN


MAGAZINE TABLE OF CONTENTS

Art Outside the Box” in 1960s Japan:
An Introduction and Commentary,
by Reiko Tomii, guest-editor

Kyushu-ha as a Movement:
Descending to the Undersides of Art,
by Kuroda Raiji

A Flash of Neo Dada:
Cheerful Destroyers in Tokyo (1993),
by Kuroda Raiji

War Is Over!: John and Yoko’s
Christmas Eve Happening, Tokyo, 1969,
by Kevin Concannon
(12 pages with images plus notes)

Japanese Art Since 1945:
The First PoNJA-GenKon Symposium (proceedings)
--From “Opening Remarks” by Ryan Holmberg
--Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Terayama Shuji (trans)
--Some Young People by Nagano Chiaki (trans)
--Cai Guo-Qiang on Guerilla Art: A Public Dialogue with Tomii
--Panel 1: Fiction Disruption (abstracts)
--Panel 2: Ephemeral in the 1960 (abstracts)
--Panel 3: Art and the Growing Nation (abstracts)
--From Make Your Name Foreign by Huang-chuan Yi
--About PoNJA-GenKon and the Symposium by Tomii with Tezuka

Fiction (translation):
The Saga of Japanese Men Sinking
by Yoko Ono

(AIU editor comment: this is incredibly funny stuff by Yoko! Circa 10 pages, plus additional information about the satire.)

The magazine has 136 pages, all in English.