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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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…
Cup Noodles Museum, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan: https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/osaka_ikeda/
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…
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…
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…
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…