Ubusuna Shrine, Shirogaki-cho, Kadoma-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan One of two small hand-made signs at our neighborhood shrine. The Tondo Festival (とんど祭り) is conducted annually on January 15 to coincide…
You have seen this: 「Deconstruction: Demolishing a Showa Era House in the Neighborhood (this post is still under construction…)」 https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/09/deconstruc…
Kayashima Shrine is close to my house and famous because there is a train station right above it. The kami-deity associated with the shrine resides in a large…
And the shrine looked very different today… As I wrote in a previous post, due to the resignation of the local neighborhood shrine elders, it was unknown who…
あけましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
There have been big changes at our local shrine in the last year. The local elders, who have been in charge of preparations for most of the shrine…
My last post on community problems and this post on community collaborative problem solving have unintentionally come together as bookends and an appropriate way to ring out the…
The first three of the photos in this series were from July of this year at a park in my neighborhood. But maybe the timing might be better…
Two left-over shops from x-mas shopping in Kyobashi. New taco and hamburger shop near work… Bonus Shots (w/ sources): https://www.facebook.com/mongolialive.org/posts/because-i-cant-wai…
Seems to be a perfect match for VAoJ! Sign language and home movies… The Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies (JISLS) held its first “Sign Language Research Seminar”…
Bonus link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI&list=RDlCpXMy5GalI
Source: https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/watch-where-you-are-going
2026 AJJ Annual Conference May 23-24th, 2026 Akita University Conference Theme Entanglements and Embodiments: Anthropology, Ethnography and Sensing Japan Location The conference will be held …
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Remembering good friends and praying for a Hanshin win tonight…
Produced, Directed and Written by John Williams Co-Producer and Co-Director: Yu Iwasaki 2024/86 min./Japan/Bilingual version (Japanese with English subtitles, English with Japanese subtitles) …
Hanshin beat the Yokohama Baystars three games in a row in the Central League Final Climax Series. The Japan Series starts on October 25. Still waiting to see…
The photo and caption say it all… Source: https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/msdf-new-sub-launched
Last year we had to cancel the danjiri festrival because our neighborhood leader was in poor health. No one knew if we would be able to do it…
The Master has been continuously busy, going after all the garbage thrown into the canal. With his pole and blue net, he hoisted up an old TV set…