Annoucement forwarded from H-Japan in the H-Net Commons: The final talk in the CIEE Kyoto Seminar Series this Spring, on Friday, April 3, 2026 by Benjamin Dorman (Senior…
It was announced on the 17th that a new series of the drama ” Midnight Diner,” starring actor Kaoru Kobayashi, is in production. This will be the first…
Photo source: https://www.akionagasawa.com/en/artist/mari-katayama/GINZA/ Mari Katayama received the inaugural Mori Art Award grand prize at a ceremony at the Roppongi Hills Club in Tokyo on Feb. 26….
Caption: A manners poster on the wall of a Tokyo subway station reminds passengers to cover their mouth when they sneeze or cough. Source: https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/cover-y…
Japanese police arrested a man in his 90s Thursday for allegedly defacing a sign at a prosecutor’s office in the city of Osaka, a local officer said. A…
Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment, near the White House, Washington, D.C. Photo Source: https://commons.wikim…
We received a box of daikon (大根) from my wife’s brother in rural Aichi Prefecture… I documented the worn handicapped parking spot at our locl convenience store… I…
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