Visual Anthropology of Japan: "Google to photograph street views of evacuated...
From Japan Today, 3/8/11: It wasn’t just the earthquake or tsunami of March 11, 2011 that shattered the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture; it was the subsequent radiation. Slowly creeping across...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: "Filmmaker captures the 3/11 stress of Tohoku’s...
Image borrowed from Studio Aya. Story from Japan Times, 3/10/13, by Tomoko Otake: Nobuko Kikuchi, a 72-year-old resident of Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, couldn’t hear the emergency sirens that...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: Teaching 3.11 in 2013
3.11 continues to influence and impact Japanese society and culture. This semester in Contemporary Japanese Culture and Globalization class we spent a whole week (two class sessions) on the subject....
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: "Man beaten to death by passerby filming fight"
Another reason to be careful filming in public... From The Daily Yomiuri Online, 3/11/13: A man was beaten to death by a stranger filming a quarrel he was involved in on a street in Konan Ward,...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: Visual Documentary Project, "Care" in Southeast...
Image and text borrowed from Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. On 15 March 2013, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, hosted a Visual Documentary Project...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: Picture of the Day: Homeless "Napster"
Image borrowed from Japan Today, 3/25/13. Image quality altered on purpose. The caption for Japan Today's Picture of the Day (3/25/13) reads "A homeless man takes a nap near JR Omiya Station in...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: Lucky Billiken On the Road in Osaka
The Lucky God Billiken, symbol of mercantile Osaka, really gets around. I asked the gentleman pictured above what Billiken was doing in the back of his truck (like a hitch-hiker rather than a god) and...
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