The Solitart Gourmet becomes a full length feature film, with a very different kind of vibe. Out on January 10, 2025. Official movie site: https://gekieiga-kodokunogurume.jp/ Movie trailer: https…
At the end of the semester, a couple of student presentations in one of my classes dealt with drinking in Japan. To be honest, both seemed sterotypical and…
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Announcement from SSJ-Forum: Produced by members of the rephoto lab at University of Tsukuba. The symposium and accompanying exhibition are funded by a Graphic Culture Research Grant from…
In the spirit of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993) and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” (Book by Dr. Seuss, 1957 and TV Special 1966)… I call…
Japan SPOTLIGHT, November/December 2024 Issue (#158) Link: https://www.jef.or.jp/jspotlight/backnumber/detail/258/ Click the link above and scroll down to: Click, or follow the link below fo…
「Intersectionality in Japanese Deaf Communities」 Abstract: Are Deaf people in Japan simply disabled, or a linguistic minority, or both? Various physical conditions and individual situations combine…
I call this series “Univer(sal)ity Capitalism: Built on the Bones of Faculty, Staff and Students” (October 2024).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gmPrP93TRA For now, I am done with social media. Nobody seems to care or appreciate the effort. But I will continue, albeit in a reduced capacity, to post…
Photo sources: https://koshien.hanshin.co.jp/classic_series_2024/ https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/sports/79a2b568dade4aeb8aaa449cd7ba2bb0 https://hochi.news/articles/20240801-OHT1T51271….
Check it out! July 17, 2024, 18:00-19:30 Room 402, 4F, Building 2 Sophia University, Tokyo Abstract:「The Tachinomi Project」is a visual ethnography based upon the con- vergence of social…
We were on the bus, traveling through the borderlands between Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures when the imojōchū began to kick in. We had just finished an hour-and-a-half of…
Teaching Japan: A Handbook. Ioannis Gaitanidis and Gregory S. Poole, eds. 2024. Japan Documents (MHM Limited, Tokyo). For more information: https://www.mhmjapandocuments.com/copy-of-handbook-of-j…
Dowload flyer here: https://www.icc-sophia.com/_files/ugd/2edff9_6a975eb58ccc4236ad4014881870fc43.pdf SOPHIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE CULTURE: https://www.icc-sophia.com/
Accesss the meeting link here: https://www.ycaps.org/gtkj-a-primer-on-deaf-communities-japan The program format is 30 minutes of lecture and 30 minutes of discussion. Of course it will be impossibl…
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