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It was the simple clacking of two wooden sticks on a street corner that signaled to children the start of kamishibai, a popular pastime during Depression-era Japan. Kamishibai means “street theater ...

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Caldecott-winner Say (Grandfather's Journey) has often written about children adrift between the cultures of East and West. Here, he imagines an old man straddling past and present. The kamishibai man ...

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TOKYO -- Participants at a recent Tokyo bookshop event got a taste of Imperial Japan's World War II-era efforts to indoctrinate the people using traditional Japanese "kamishibai" storytelling.

Kamishibai means “paper drama” in Japanese. This early 20th-century street theatre flourished in Japan during the 1920s and ’30s. Travelling storytellers would draw children in by clapping wooden ...

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