Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Local Matsuri II: Evening Activities

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Michael Ashkenazi ( 1993 ) contextualizes the Japanese matsuri as having three qualities: First, it is unusual (different from daily lif...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Local Matsuri I: The Mikoshi

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A festival is like a circus that has spilled out over a whole neighborhood; it brings with it the bitter-sweet feeling that no matter whe...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Should Visual Anthropologists Have Children?

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A question of priorities... Source: http://now.msn.com/awkward-family-vacation-photos-1
Friday, July 19, 2013

Communist Party Campaigns at Kyobashi Station in Osaka

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Sunday is election day in Japan with seats in the upper house up for grabs. Party heads have been traveling throughout Japan to support l...
Monday, July 15, 2013

"Unclaimed predisaster photos seek home"

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Photo and text from The Japan News , 7/15/13 Hundreds of thousands of photographs were recovered from areas hit by the 2011 earthqu...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

"Kids on film"

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From The Japan News , 7/12/13: As the stylishly dressed model flashed a pose, the photographer snapped some shots. “How about wearing a ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

CINEMA TYPHOON @ TKU2013 “Filming ‘Fukushima’: Diverse Memories, Multiple Representations”

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This year’s “Cinema Typhoon” will present three films on the theme of people’s memories and filmic representations. Funahashi Atushi’s “Nucl...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Depicting the World of Kamuy - Portraits of the Ainu - Talk by Makiko Ui

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Makiko Ui is a Tokyo-based photographer who has been pursuing the lives of the Ainu of Japan, an indigenous people with a distinct langua...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Paper Presentation at ASCJ: "Visualizing the Deaf in Contemporary Japan"

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The Asian Studies Conference Japan will take place at J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, June 29-30, 2013. of special interest to visual a...
Monday, June 24, 2013

"Deaf bartender raises game to thrive in Ginza"

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Photo and text borrowed from The Japan Times , 6/13/13. Dai Igarashi is a bartender in Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza entertainment district, att...
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