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Ethnographies of Life and Work: Researcher Series Ep. 1

2020.12.07
SHAKUTO Shiori

“Sustainability is not about continuing the same thing.” For Episode 1 of the new series, “Ethnographies of Life and Work: Researchers,” we invited Dr MINO Takashi, Project Professor at the Tokyo College.

Japan’s migrants are not allowed to go ‘home’

2020.12.01
Tokyo College Blog

In Japan, COVID-19 shifted the meaning of ‘home’ overnight with devastating effects on the transnational lives of migrants.
2019 was a special year in the history of migration in Japan recording the highest number of both foreign residents in Japan and Japanese residents overseas since 1968. Yet, COVID-19 disrupted this flow…

Future Earth – addressing Planetary Boundaries from Japan

2020.11.25
Tokyo College Blog

Authors: Dr. KASUGA Fumiko, TANI Junya
The crisis of the global environment is not just limited to warming, and warming cannot be prevented by energy conversion alone. For the sustainable development of human society, it is essential to maintain the stability and resilience of the entire global system…

Love, coffee and word associations

2020.11.17
Maria TELEGINA

When you smell coffee, what picture appears in your mind? What do you feel? What time of the day do you imagine? Distinctive smells like the smell of coffee tend to trigger strong associations. In the…

Future Tasks for Japanese Studies. A Personal Reflection – Part III

2020.09.18
FACIUS Michael

Part III: The Classroom as a Site of Renewal. In the previous parts I stressed a desire for more conversation: between area studies and the disciplines, between Japanese and non-Japanese scholars of Japan, between academics and the wider public. Crucially, we also need to listen to our students. In…

Future Tasks for Japanese Studies. A Personal Reflection – Part II

2020.09.10
FACIUS Michael

PART II: Japan as Method. What I found exciting as a German studying Japanese history was the change of perspective it entailed. For good reason, schooling in German history and public debates centered on National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. The purpose of national history after 1945…

Future Tasks for Japanese Studies. A Personal Reflection – Part I

2020.09.02
FACIUS Michael

This three-part blog series is a slightly revised version of an essay I wrote for the 30th anniversary essay contest of the Toshiba Foundation. PART I: The Global Entanglements of Japanese Culture. Fifteen years onwards, I cannot say for sure what first piqued my interest in Japanese studies. I know…


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