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The University of Pittsburgh Washington Center hosts an engaging presentation titled "Feeling of Freedom," featuring Professor Takashi Fujitani from the University of Toronto. This event explores the wartime representations of the liberation of the Philippines by Japanese and American films from 1943 to 1945, interrogating the complex narratives of freedom and empire during World War II.

Professor Fujitani, a prominent figure in Asia Pacific Studies, examines how narrative tropes in these films conveyed messages of choice, death, romance, and race while portraying imperial projects as harbingers of freedom and equality. With a robust background in modern and contemporary Japanese history, his research highlights critical intersections of nationalism, colonialism, war, and memory.

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