A tale of two cemeteries in northern Osaka shows us much about recent changes in Japanese mortuary traditions.
Japan
Family in the Ruins of Nuclear Risk
Families outside Fukushima’s evacuation zone try to “live normally again” despite the shadow of radiation exposure.
Stories of Kimchi and Zainichi Koreans in Japan
How do Zainichi Koreans understand Japanese consumers’ open embrace of kimchi in light of Japan’s reluctant social acceptance of its Korean minority population?
Top Articles of 2019
Another year almost done! Sit back, relax, and read some of the most-clicked articles on the website in 2019.
Indigenous Survival Politics in the Promotion of a National Discourse
The Japanese state had tried and is still trying to depoliticize the Ainu community’s movements with a perfunctory recognition of a valorized Ainu culture to pacify them.
Curating and Performing the Japan Cultural Experience
Tourism industries and cultural institutions are increasingly offering commercial experiences in which consumers embody a performative “tourist gaze” that “orders and regulates the relationships between various sensuous experiences while away.
Performance, Sign Language, and Deaf Identity in Japan
Through 20 years of research experience in Japan, I realized that Japanese Sign Language itself can also be viewed as a performance genre found in the everyday lives of Deaf people, considering the relationship between their presentations of JSL and shared Deaf identity through the consumption of information and values.
Stuff Matters, Especially When You Risk “Everything” for It
Mrs. M. realised she had made a miscalculation staying in her property on the afternoon of March 3, 2011 when water started bulging in through her floor. She had heard the official warning of the oncoming tsunami and knew that the evacuation order was serious. She had every intention of running to higher ground once she collected some belongings. And more importantly, once she found her cat.
Japan’s Emerging Emotional Tech
There is a moment in Spike Jonze’s film Her (2013) when the main character Theodore, who is in a romantic relationship with an operating system named Samantha, learns that she is simultaneously conversing with 8,316 others and has fallen in love with 641 of them.
