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Nippon 2007
| The 65th World Science Fiction Convention and the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention, Nippon 2007, was held from August 30-September 5, 2007 in Yokohama, Japan.
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The Thunder Child, through the kind auspices of "the Commodore", received the Souvenir Book and Program Guide, and we share some of its contents below.
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For English-speaking visitors, there were two pieces of media, a 8 X 11 Souvenir Book, with one side of 154 pages in English. The other side - 144 pages of the same articles in Japanese.
Also available in English was a Pocket Program Guide of 98 pages, which featured a map of the venue, and detailed calendars with events for each day.
First we'll discuss the information in the souvenir book, and then move on to the program guide.
The Author Guests of Honor were Sakyo Komatsu and David Brin, the Artist Guests of Honor were Yoshitaka Amano and Michael Whelan, and the Fan Guest of Honor was Takumi Shibano.
In addition to the articles, there were color pages in the center of the book featuring the art of Michael Whelan and Yoshitaka Amano.
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Table of Contents
1. From the Chairman: Welcome to the first Worldcon in Asia, by Hiroaki Inoue
2. Greetings from the mayor [of Yokohama], by Hiroshi Nakada
3. Sakyo Komatsu: Three Dimensional TV For When You're Lonely
4. David Brin: Gawkers
5. Yoshitaka Amano: This is only I Know about Amano-san, by Baku Yumemakura
6. An Essay on Yoshitake Amano and his Works, by Hideyuki Kikuchi
7. Michael Whelan: His Journey of Imaginative Realism, by Bob Eggleton
8. Takumi Shibano: A History of Japanese Fandom with "Uchujin" in the Center, by Tosaku Mori
9. The History of Japanese Science Fiction "Prodom"- Between Japanese Science Fiction and Science Fictional Japan
10. 2007 Nominees, and complete list of Hugo Winners 2006 - 1955, (plus retroactive awards from 1954, 1953, 1951 and 1946.)
11. 2007 Nominees, and complete list of Seiun Awards winners 2006 - 1970
12. Brief History of Modern Japan Science Fiction, by Junya Yokota
13. List of all World Cons 1939 - 2007
14. Notes on the long list of World Cons
15. Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society, August 2006
16. List and brief bios of program participants
17. Nippon 2007 members (as of 31 July)
18. Jets/HANA Fund
19. Pages for autographs
Lists of exhibits (from the Pocket Guide)
1. GoH Exhibits
2. Exhibition of works: Around the Undersea World: Nsautilus Design Contest
3. Fanhistory: Worldcon and Japanese Convention Exhibit
4. Winners of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the Science of Gender (SOG) Award
5. A collection of cover illustrations from the classic to the latest, Japanese and foreign science fiction.
6. Worldcon Site Selection
7. City of Yokohama
8. Shinji Ogawa's "Chain World"
9. Future Convention Fan Tables
10. Costume Chaning Rooms
11. Social Space (inc. "Let's Connect!" DS/PSP Area)
12. Lunatic System's "Welcome to Akihabara" Maid CAfe
13. Nippon 2007 Sales to Members
14. Nippon 2007 Sticker Shop
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15. Social Space
16. Ultraman series 40th anniversary
17. Demonstrations of MANOI
18. Worldcon Costumes
19. The Heinlein Cafe
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A few of the events
The Future of Computers
William Gibson and Japan: Transpacific Feedback Loop
Sexual Japan: SF/SM
Rediscovering Japan: The Unknown SF masterpieces in Anime/Manga masterpecies
Travel as a research method
Sapir - Whorf htypothesis
"Iai-do": Art of drawing real swords
Children of Haruki Murakami
Underwater Farm 707: How to induce Glacial period
Talk with Tooru Hirayama: Superheroes created by Shotaro Ishinomori
Let's interact through SF illustrations: the almost bilingual session
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This is just an overview of what transpired at Worldcon 2007.
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