Tuesday, April 25, 2023

New! the Berreman-Yamanaka Global Equity Award

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Source: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/new-the-berreman-yamanaka-global-equity-award?e=237d513adb Thanks to JH for forwarding this t...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

56 (pt.2): After work...

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

56: So on this Day I will wake up early to do a zoom guest lecture at 8:00 AM (Japan time)...

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"Introduction to Visual Anthropology: Focus on Photo-ethnography." The first half of the lecture will be about Visual Anthropol...
Monday, April 17, 2023

"11 injured as ‘danjiri’ float topples over at Sakai event"

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Photo and text from the Asahi Shimbun , 4/16/23. Thanks to L.D. for forwarding it to me. Eleven men were injured, three seriously, when a...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Mark [Bookman] - A Call to Action (Trailer) FINAL

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Mark - A Call to Action (Trailer) FINAL from Anchor Media Group on Vimeo . Source: https://vimeo.com/815400131?fbclid=IwAR3QXITgvcS_FgU...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

"The LGBTQ+ coming-out photo project "OUT IN JAPAN" will hold a 2023 Spring photo exhibition at Shibuya Cat Street "X8 Gallery" for a month from Saturday, April 15th!"

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Photo and text from PR Times , 4/15/23. The certified NPO Good Aging Yells has been working with world-famous photographer Leslie Kee sin...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Another neighborhood shop closes...

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This is was a tako yaki shop that was open for 23 years. The owner turned 80 and seemed to be having health problems. I went there a cou...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The inspiration for today's photo of dogs in the local cemetery this morning? My students are doing their Two-Frame Stories in Documenting Japan class; all of them have been great; one presentation on ohanami in Kyoto concluded with something along the lines of "...at the end of the day everyone wants to pose with a cute dog." (I don't necessarily endorse this position...)

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Monday, April 3, 2023

"Skull, bones found in septic tank at vacant [Kadoma-shi,] Osaka Pref. [apartment]"

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This is a mere 20 meters from my home; I walk past it twice a day. I walked past the septic cleaner truck around 8:30 this morning. There w...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Of course, the day after Spring Break ends, the weather gets sunny and warm... The neighborhood cherry blossoms were a nice send-off for going back to school...

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