The Nippon Steel SGL Stadium Amagasaki opened on March 1, 2025 as the home ball park for the Hanshin Tigers farm team, known as 二軍 (ni-gun, 2-gun), the…
Tachinomi Banpaiya Monzen Nakacho has been described as “a popular, ultra-cheap, no-frills standing bar (tachinomi) located in the traditional shitamachi (downtown) neighborhood of Monzen-Nakacho in…
Orihara Shoten is a liquor shop and a “standing drink bar” usually known as 立ち呑み屋 (tachinomiya). This shop many shelves with various kinds of alcohol and refrigerators filled…
Image: Inō Tadataka (1745-1818), the famous Japanese surveyor and cartographer whose bronze statue resides in the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine grounds in present-day Monzen Nakacho, joined…
This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn’t see each other for a while during the summer break, she asked me…
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images. | ©YANAGI MIWA Photo and text source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/10/art/…
For a good memory post: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-master-of-canal-with-his-long-pole.html
This rather large post documents the construction of a new apartment complex (corrected name on the apartment signage:「フォレストグクリエオーレ城垣町 I II」or, Forest Creaole Shirogakicho I and II) in my…
One day, while out on a jalan-jalan (“walking for nothing”) with my camera I happened upon this very old sign. It was located on a storage garage at…
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT will be hosting the exhibition “Soup is Life” from March 27, 2026. Directed by designer Natsumi Toyama, who has viewed the external environment of the…
Caption: A sprawling retrospective on Moriyama, a giant of Japanese street photography, is on view at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, as part of annual international…
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Visual Anthropology in Japan: 「The Tachinomi Project」 日本に映像人類学: 立ち呑みプロジェクト A chance to share my research with colleagues at work… Abstract: 「The Tachinomi Project」is a visual ethnography base…
David Beriss Our last, but perhaps most famous, winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest is none other than Carole Counihan, who comes in third place.…
David Beriss We are happy to announce that Caroline Stahley, a graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program of the University of South Florida, has taken second place…
David Beriss As I noted in my previous post, we had a tie for the winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. The tie is between…
David Beriss It is time once again to reveal the winners of the 2026 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decisions this year were reached by a panel…
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….
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…