“Anthropology society apologizes to Ainu people over past actions”
Image and text from The Japan Times, 4/5/24. The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology has apologized and expressed its regret over its past research approach when dealing with…
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The Concept and the Actual Product: An Artist of Noodle Cups, I Am Not…
Cup Noodles Museum, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan: https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/osaka_ikeda/
NEW! @VAoJ: RESOURCES I RECENTLY LEARNED ABOUT AND NEED TO LOOK AT…
A way too long overdue update on the blog… But I am too lazy to put them in proper categories. So much good stuff is out there and…
Yes! “Cover your coughs and sneezes to protect yourself and others.”
Photo from Japan Today, 3/13/24. “Good Manners” Picture of the Day at Japan Today (3/13/24). Caption reads: A poster on the wall of a subway station in Tokyo…
The Photo Exhibition Has Ended… Thank you for your interest, support, coming to see our photos, talking with us, filling out our survey, sipping the sacred sake and eating the treats… If you couldn’t come, or you want more, we will be presenting at the KGU IRI Forum on 2/22/24.
So many came out to the exhibition – friends, colleagues, matsuri experts, former students, new students, new friends (including interested passersby) … Thank you so much! We are…
明日から写真展始まります! Photo Exhibition Starts Tomorrow!
Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 A Photo Exhibition by Lucile Druet and Steven C. Fedorowicz 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 ルシル ドルーエとスティーブン C. フェドロウィツによる写真展 2024 Febr…
「Matsuri」 Photo Exhibition Accessibility and Barrier-free Information 「祭り」 写真展 アクセシビリティ・バリアフリーについて
Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火) 11:00 – 18:00 (last day / 最終日は 11:00 – 16:00) JARFO Art…
Wired! Walking to the printer’s shop on a crisp sunny day to pick up our photo panels…
We have photos to be exhibited! The photos have been blurred so as not to ruin your Photo Exhibition Experience. Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February…
Only 2 Weeks Until… / まであと2週間…
Photo Exhibition 写真展 Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火) 11:00 – 18:00 (last day / 最終日は 11:00 –…
Sketch Art Exhibition::「立呑み絵日記」 (Standing Bar Diary) by Syuhei Shibukawa
Photo courtesy of Syuhei Shibukawa via his Facebook. I learned of this exhibition through the 関西酒場研究会 (Kansai Bar Study Group) on Facebook. Syuhei Shibukawa likes to go to tachinomiya,…
蜜香屋 / みっこうや / Mikkouya: A sweet potato shop located in the Tengo Nakazakicho shopping street (I like the logo…). I will have to return to sample the sweets…
Shop website: http://mikkouya.com/
This weekend I am going to Tokyo to meet with a sake expert; I want to give him a bottle of high quality sake from Osaka. So I went to Inada Sake Shop and not only found a great present but also the Foo Fighters sake that I have looking for since its debut in 2021!
Katano Sakura Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu Super Dry and Foo Fighters×TATENOKAWA JUNMAIDAIGINJO HANSHO Blue Inada Sake Shop is over 90 years old and has a great selection of…
「Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body 」There’s nothing like holding the real book for the first time…
Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body Editors: Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada (2023) Book information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5724-8 See also: h…
Do these two visual images have anything in common? (subtitle: Coincidence?)
In「KOREA ENCOUNTERS: Experimental artists challenge ‘suffocating’ conformity in 1960s Seoul」(The Korea Times January 14, 2024), the caption for Image 1 reads, “Chung Chan-seung prepares an installa…
祭り Matsuri Photo Exhibition 写真展
Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 More information coming in future posts! For now, mark your calendars! 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火…
Jalan Jalan (104): The First One of 2024
Set I Set II If you are not familiar with the Jalan Jalan series, click here.
Here’s to a better 2024…
I arrived at Ubusuna Jinja shortly after midnight. On my way I could smell the smoke from the two blazing barrel fires at the shrine. The rain had…
New Book Announcement: A LONG time in the making! “Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body”
Finally! The new book edited by Kaori Fushiki and Ryoko Sakurada has been published! The origins of this book go back to May, 2014 and the panel “Anthropology…
“Character for tax (税) picked as kanji of 2023” – and I my salary is less than it was two years ago…
Photo and story from Japan Today, 12/12/23. I would have actually voted for “(Hanshin) Tigers” as the kanji of the years. But… The money that I now actually…
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2023 Conference at Meiji Gakuin University Shirokane Campus, December 2-3
Subtitle: アレ！VAOJ@AJJ 2023… Once again, the AJJ is meeting with a wide range of interesting participants, research topics and presentations. Of special note is a two panel first…
