Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Vortrag von Prof. James Farrer, Ph.D.: „Small-scale Tokyo eateries as community spaces: from vigilance to mobilization“

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@ https://www.nishiogiology.org Tokyo hosts one of the densest and most complex agglomerations of small businesses of any city in the world, partly due to its legacy human-scale built environment organized around the commuter rail stations (Almazán 2022). This paper reports on long-term ethnographic research on the social lives of small eateries in Tokyo as places...

Filmvorführung II: „Finding their Niche – Unheard Stories of Migrant Women“ – A Film by Dr. Megha Wadhwa

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The hour-long film documents the life of two Indian women migrants who moved to Japan more than a decade ago as trailing spouses. The women were excited to move to a foreign country and to be with their husbands, but they had no prior knowledge of Japan. Having witnessed at a distance the lives of...

Filmvorführung I: „Watashitachiwa Ningenda! We Are Human!“ – A Film by Ko Chanyu

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In his nearly two-hour long documentary, director Ko Chanyu connects the long struggle of Zainichi Koreans for formal recognition of Korean schools in post-war Japan with the death of the Sri Lankan woman Wishma Sandamali during detention at the Nagoya Immigration Center in March 2021. In his film, Ko examines in detail how legal and...