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LEAD TEAM:
Eric Faden (Professor, Film/Media Studies)
Tohru Kawamoto (Professor, Nagoya City University)
Daniel Nienhuis (Film/Media Studies)
Nate Siegel (Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Joshua Stough (Associate Professor, Computer Science)

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS:
Jake Klavonski (History / Japanese, ’25)
Iaroslava “Yara” Polusmak (Film/Media Studies, ’28)
John Ogunwomoju (Film/Media Studies, ’27)
Jackson Rubiano (Computer Science, ’27)

PARTNERS:
The Toy Film Museum (Kyoto, Japan)
Itabashi Science Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Tsuyoshi Yamabata
Yoneo Ota and Fumiyo Ota
Machiko Kusahara

LEGAL CONSULTANT:
Brianna Dahlberg, Intellectual Property Attorney, Rome LLP (Los Angeles)

EMERITUS:
Elizabeth Armstrong (Professor, East Asian Studies)
Alina Arko (Mechanical Engineering, ’23)
Yuhan Chen (Computer Science, ’23)
Harry Winter (Film/Media Studies, ’26)

CONTACT:
Eric Faden, Project Lead – efaden@bucknell.edu

Work on this project was generously funded by The National Endowment of the Humanities, Bucknell University Humanities Center High Impact Research Grant, and the Bucknell University Undergraduate Research Fund