| s00e01 |
2020-05-18 |
Tracing Atomic Utopia and Dystopia in Japan |
Nakao Maika |
Nagasaki University |
jp |
| s00e02 |
2020-06-04 |
Shamanic practices in contemporary Japan: Local habits and national fascination |
Marianna Zanetta |
University of Turin |
it |
| s00e03 |
2020-06-18 |
Locating Heisei in Japanese Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades |
Marc Yamada |
Brigham Young University |
us |
| s00e04 |
2020-06-25 |
From Fenollosa to kokubungaku – aesthetics and the birth of the utsukushii Nihon |
Arthur Mitteau |
Paris EHESS’s Centre for Studies on Corea, China and Japan (CCJ) |
fr |
| s01e01 |
2020-10-15 |
Work "like a woman": The construction of femininity and the female body in the Japanese job hunting |
Anna Lughezzani |
University of Padova, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Verona |
it |
| s01e02 |
2020-10-22 |
Abe Kazushige’s Male Homosocial Worlds: Duels and Complaints |
Maria Roemer |
University of Leeds |
uk |
| s01e03 |
2020-10-29 |
85 years of Suye Mura: The life history of a Japanese village—and its anthropology |
William Kelly |
Yale University |
us |
| s01e04 |
2020-11-05 |
Menstruation und Konzeptionen von Weiblichkeit im japanischen Mittelalter |
Daniela Tan |
Universität Zürich (UZH) |
ch |
| s01e05 |
2020-11-19 |
Model Emotion: Android Perspectives on Affect in Japan |
Daniel White |
University of Cambridge |
uk |
| s01e06 |
2020-11-26 |
‘Creativity’ in rural Japan: Sōzō nōson and its implications in regional revitalization policies |
Shilla Lee |
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
de |
| s01e07 |
2020-12-10 |
Storehouses of value: materiality of belonging in Japanese Buddhist temples |
Paulina Kolata |
University of Manchester / Lund University |
uk, se |
| s01e08 |
2020-12-17 |
Ceding Control: Politics, the Environment and Japan’s Food System |
Nicole Freiner |
Bryant University |
us |
| s01e09 |
2021-01-07 |
The fear of others – Taijinkyōfu: Emergence, development and demise of a psychiatric diagnosis |
Sarah Terrail Lormel |
INALCO (Paris) |
fr |
| s01e10 |
2021-01-14 |
Japanese in the Age of Post-Standardization: Language Trends in the 21st Century |
Asahi Yoshiyuki |
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics |
jp |
| s01e11 |
2021-01-28 |
The Single-Gender Worlds of Suzuki Izumi, Kurahashi Yumiko and Shōno Yoriko – A Short History of Ambivalence Towards All-Female Worlds in Japanese Speculative Fiction |
Stefan Würrer |
International Christian University |
jp |
| s02e01 |
2021-03-04 |
Geschlecht und Faschismus in Darstellungen der japanischen Siedlungsaktivitäten in der Mandschurei |
Jasmin Rückert |
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
de |
| s02e02 |
2021-03-11 |
Love in the Time of COVID-19: The ‘New Normal’ in the TV Series #rimorabu (“Remote Love”) |
Elisabeth Scherer & Nora Kottmann |
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf & DIJ Tokyo |
de, jp |
| s02e03 |
2021-03-18 |
Conceptualizing Robotic Agency: Social Robots in Elder Care in Contemporary Japan |
Anne Aronsson |
University of Zurich / Universität Bern |
ch |
| s02e04 |
2021-03-25 |
Transcultural Potentials of dōjinshi Culture |
Katharina Hülsmann |
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
de |
| s02e05 |
2021-04-15 |
Local Governance in Okinawa: A Case Study from Oku |
Gabriele Vogt |
LMU Munich |
de |
| s02e06 |
2021-04-22 |
From Glass to Plastics: The Packaging Revolution of Postwar Japan |
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka |
Leiden University |
nl |
| s02e07 |
2021-04-29 |
Japanese Literary Nationalism and Brazil, 1908-1941 |
Edward Mack |
University of Washington |
us |
| s02e08 |
2021-05-06 |
Science for Governing Japan’s Population |
Aya Homei |
Manchester University |
uk |
| s02e09 |
2021-05-20 |
How independently oriented values induce positive outcomes in Japanese interdependent organizations |
Uchida Yukiko |
Kyoto University |
jp |
| s02e10 |
2021-05-27 |
From Private to Public and Back? The Townscape Councils of Kyoto |
Christoph Brumann |
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
de |
| s02e11 |
2021-06-10 |
Zen and the Art of Ending Taishō Democracy |
Brian Victoria |
Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies |
jp |
| s02e12 |
2021-06-17 |
Revitalizing rural Japan through crafts |
Cornelia Reiher |
FU Berlin |
de |
| s02e13 |
2021-06-24 |
A hug on trash day (ハグは資源ゴミの日): Actualising social order through household waste disposal practices |
Brigitte Steger |
University of Cambridge |
uk |
| s03e01 |
2021-10-14 |
Tatamis and Concrete – Antonin Raymond and the challenges of early modern architecture in interwar Japan |
Yola Gloaguen |
CRCAO |
fr |
| s03e02 |
2021-10-21 |
Frauen als groteske Monster – Weiblichkeit und Abjektion in den Werken Kirino Natsuos |
Anna-Lena von Garnier |
Universität Düsseldorf |
de |
| s03e03 |
2021-10-28 |
What Does the Individual Stand for? Victims, Survivors and Noble Spirits in Japanese Memorial Museums |
Frauke Kempka & André Hertrich |
ÖAW |
at |
| s03e04 |
2021-11-04 |
Das Ende des Intimen - Raumkonstruktionen in Murata Sayakas Satsujin Shussan |
Ronald Saladin |
Universität Trier |
de |
| s03e05 |
2021-11-11 |
Zuflucht in Shanghai - The Port of Last Resort |
Paul Rosdy "ZUFLUCHT IN SHANGHAI" |
freischaffender Filmemacher, Wien |
at |
| s03e06 |
2021-11-18 |
Japankoreanische hibakusha als Irritation nationaler Narrative: Die Erzählung Saihate no futari („Zwei Menschen am Rande“, 1999) von Sagisawa Megumu |
Maren Haufs-Brusberg |
Universität Düsseldorf |
de |
| s03e07 |
2021-11-25 |
“Manner Posters” and the Management of Passenger Etiquette on Japanese Urban Railways |
Christoph Schimkowsky |
University of Sheffield |
uk |
| s03e08 |
2021-12-02 |
Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan |
Michael Strausz |
Texas Christian University |
us |
| s03e09 |
2021-12-09 |
Community-based Renewable Energy Structures: A Case of Small Hydropower in a Japanese Rural Community |
Junko Fukumoto |
Fukuoka Prefectural University |
jp |
| s03e11 |
2022-01-13 |
ISLANDS FOR LIFE: Art Projects and Post-Growth Philosophies in Japan |
Adrian Favell |
University of Leeds |
uk |
| s03e12 |
2022-01-20 |
Tensions of Making and the Art of Breaking: Putting Salt Fields to Rest in 19th Century Japan |
Aleksandra Kobiljski |
EHESS |
fr |
| s03e13 |
2022-01-27 |
Transition from Painted to Painter: The Female Body of Okinawa and its Women Artists |
Eriko Tomizawa-Kay |
University of East Anglia |
uk |
| s04e01 |
2022-03-10 |
They Heard it Through the Grapevine: Rumour Spreading, Poisonous Knowledge and the Political Ecology of Hauntings in Contemporary Japan |
Andrea de Antoni |
Kyoto University |
jp |
| s04e02 |
2022-03-17 |
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society |
Susanne Klien |
Hokkaido University |
jp |
| s04e03 |
2022-03-24 |
Ukrainian Diaspora in Occupied Manchuria: Articulating the Needs for the Independent State (1932-1945) |
Olga Khomenko |
Kyiv Mohyla Business School (KMBS),The National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy Ukraine |
ua |
| s04e04 |
2022-03-31 |
History of Early Bilateral Relations between Japan and Hungary (1869-1913) |
Tóth Gergely |
independent researcher, Budapest |
hu |
| s04e05 |
2022-04-07 |
Let's make it an inconvenient place here: Opposing over-tourism in Kyoto’s Gion before and during the pandemic |
Miloš Debnár |
Ryukoku University, Kyoto |
jp |
| s04e07 |
2022-05-05 |
Oshi-katsu, Supporting activity: Recognition and Intimacy as Commodities from the Anthropological Study of Japanese josei-muke Adult Video Fan Communities |
Maiko Kodaka |
SOAS, London |
uk |
| s04e08 |
2022-05-12 |
International students and their organisations in Japan during the pandemic and beyond |
Polina Ivanova |
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto |
jp |
| s04e09 |
2022-05-19 |
East Asian Reactions to Russia's War in Ukraine: Governmental and Civil Society Responses |
Alfred Gerstl et al. |
Universität Wien |
at |
| s04e10 |
2022-06-02 |
Japanesia, the Ryūkyū Arc, and Shimao Toshio’s Cultural Resistance Against the Colonial Politics of the Past |
Takahashi Shin |
Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington |
nz |
| s04e12 |
2022-06-23 |
Millennials’ Senses of Inequality: Class, Gender, and Legitimation of Differences in Tokyo |
Yuki Asahina |
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul |
kr |
| s04e13 |
2022-06-30 |
Neighborhood Tokyo: Creative Urban Milieus as Places of Innovation and Polarization |
Heide Imai |
Senshu University |
jp |
| s05e01 |
2022-10-06 |
Where a Nuclear Meltdown and Sexwork Intersect: Discovering the stories in the film “Boys for Sale” |
Ian Thomas Ash |
Filmmaker |
jp |
| s05e02 |
2022-10-13 |
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan |
Chris McMorran |
Singapur National University |
sg |
| s05e03 |
2022-10-20 |
Japanische Gartenkunst: Ästhetik und Gestaltung |
Takuhiro Yamada |
Gartenbaumeister, Japan |
jp |
| s05e04 |
2022-10-27 |
Depopulation, property,and land issues: Addressing the akiya mondai in regional Japan |
Niccolò Lollini |
University of Oxford |
uk |
| s05e05 |
2022-11-03 |
高森町の自助・共助・公助について - Selbsthilfe, Kooperation und staatliche Hilfe in Takamori-machi |
Tsuru Tomoyuki |
Takamori-machi |
jp |
| s05e07 |
2022-11-17 |
Shurijō in 2022: The Politics of Cultural Heritage on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Reversion |
Tze M. Loo |
University of Richmond |
us |
| s05e08 |
2022-11-24 |
Furry Companions: Pets in Contemporary Japan |
Barbara Holthus |
DIJ Tokyo |
de |
| s05e09 |
2022-12-01 |
Transpacific Visions: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South |
Yasuko Hassall-Kobayashi |
Ritsumeikan University |
jp |
| s05e10 |
2022-12-15 |
How to live with a nuclear disaster on one’s farmland: A longitudinal narrative approach to Fukushima Farmers’ life experiences |
Anna Wiemann |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
de |
| s05e11 |
2023-01-12 |
Feldforschung zum Thema Pflegerobotik in Japan: Praxisbericht aus der Sicht einer Forschungsbibliothekarin |
Cosima Wagner |
Freie Universität Berlin |
de |
| s05e12 |
2023-01-19 |
Nō from Anthropological Perspective - Zeami vs present, tradition vs practice - |
Ivan Rumánek |
Masaryk University |
cz |
| s05e13 |
2023-01-26 |
The role of institutional contexts for social inequalities in study abroad intent and participation – Evidence from Japan |
Steve R. Entrich |
Universität Potsdam |
de |
| s06e01 |
2023-03-02 |
キャンプ文学の構想：旧満洲、シベリアその他 - Ein kleines Konzept von Lager-Literatur: Mandschurei, Siberien usw. |
坪井秀人 Tsuboi Hideto |
Waseda University |
jp |
| s06e02 |
2023-03-09 |
Die Yakuza im Aussterben: Neu(un)ordnung der japanischen Unterwelt |
Wolfgang Herbert |
Tokushima University |
jp |
| s06e03 |
2023-03-16 |
Jüdische Filmemacher im Shanghaier Exil während der japanischen Okkupation: Betrachtungen zum Dokumentarfilm Driven People/ Sokoku o owarete (1940) von Gertrud Wolffsohn |
Roland Domenig |
Meiji Gakuin University |
jp |
| s06e04 |
2023-03-23 |
It’s a (Gentle)Men’s World: Gendered Communities within Tenjin Matsuri |
Carmen Sapunaru Tămaș |
University of Hyogo |
jp |
| s06e06 |
2023-04-20 |
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities |
Helena Hof |
University of Zurich |
ch |
| s06e08 |
2023-05-04 |
Yakuwarigo – real or fictionalized speech? How real Japanese influences role languages and how role languages are reflected in real Japanese |
Patrycja Duc-Harada |
Jagiellonian University in Cracow |
pl |
| s06e09 |
2023-05-11 |
Women and Martial Art in Japan |
Kate Sylvester |
The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH |
se |
| s06e10 |
2023-05-25 |
Climate Change: Trends, Policies, and Japan‘s Efforts in the Global Endeavours towards Net-Zero |
Otaka Junichiro |
Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Japan in Austria |
at |
| s06e12 |
2023-06-15 |
Higuchi Ryuichi: "Über meinen Großvater und dessen Aktivitäten im Zusammenhang mit der jüdischen Emigration nach Osten" |
Higuchi Ryuichi |
Meiji Gakuin Universität |
jp |
| s06e13 |
2023-06-22 |
User Engagement Against Online Hate Speech: The #Netto-uyo BAN Matsuri since 2018 |
Ayaka Löschke |
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
de |
| s06e14 |
2023-06-29 |
Zen in den Kampfkünsten, oder wie verhält sich Religion zum Krieg? |
Wolfgang Herbert |
Tokushima University |
jp |
| s07e01 |
2023-10-12 |
The Grand Festivals of Edo (tenka matsuri): Religion, Performance, and Politics in the Shogun's Capital during the Early Modern Period |
Gerald Groemer |
University of Yamanashi |
jp |
| s07e02 |
2023-10-19 |
Technik, Ethik, Pragmatik: Der Diskurs um autonome Waffen in Japan |
Bernhard Seidl |
University of Vienna |
at |
| s07e03 |
2023-11-02 |
Immigrant Integration in Japan: Barriers and Challenges |
Hirohisa Takenoshita |
Keio University |
jp |
| s07e04 |
2023-11-08 |
Geschlechter und Sexualitäten im modernen Japan |
Sabine Frühstück |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
us |
| s07e05 |
2023-11-16 |
Cross-dress boys and girlish avatars: wearing the outfits of 'shōjo' characters to become non-binary and refuse social and gender categories |
Sharon Kinsella |
University of Manchester |
uk |
| s07e06 |
2023-11-23 |
Women in the Workplace in Contemporary Japan: Matsuda Aoko's Works (b. 1979) |
Daniela Moro |
Università di Torino |
it |
| s07e07 |
2023-11-30 |
The Intersection of Travel, Work and Migration: Challenges and Prospects for the case of Niseko, a ski resort in Hokkaido |
Atsushi Takeda |
Ritsumeikan University |
jp |
| s07e08 |
2023-12-07 |
Grieving One-self: Mortuary Care for Social Singles in Japan |
Anne Allison |
Duke University |
us |
| s07e09 |
2024-01-11 |
Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance, and Ritual |
Igor Prusa |
Ambis University |
cz |
| s07e10 |
2024-01-18 |
Meoto Iwa: The Shinto Rocks that Influenced Gustav Klimt’s Key Canvases |
Svitlana Shiells |
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C |
us |
| s07e11 |
2024-01-25 |
Das „Sehen“ als Politikum: die japanische Souvenirphotographie aus den 1890er Jahren im Spannungsfeld der Blickregime |
Mio Wakita-Elis |
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien |
at |
| s08e01 |
2024-03-07 |
Verlorene und erfundene Traditionen im japanischen Karate-dô |
Wolfgang Herbert |
Tokushima University |
jp |
| s08e02 |
2024-03-14 |
Living with ever-changing currents: Following an ama diving community over one decade |
Timo Thelen |
Kanazawa University |
jp |
| s08e03 |
2024-03-21 |
"I am too tired to have sex": A case study of sexless relationships in contemporary Japan |
Alice Pacher |
Meiji University |
jp |
| s08e04 |
2024-04-11 |
Die Rolle der japanischen Frauen im Laufe der Geschichte: Vom Altertum bis in die Gegenwart |
Mizuuchi Akemi |
- |
jp |
| s08e05 |
2024-04-18 |
Strolling through stanzas: Reading Japanese poetry installations in the real and virtual cityscape |
Sarah Puetzer |
University of Oxford |
uk |
| s08e06 |
2024-04-25 |
Defending culture, defining politics: Conservatism and the ideological politics of rearmament in postwar Japan |
Karin Narita |
University of Sheffield |
uk |
| s08e07 |
2024-05-02 |
Strindberg and the New Woman in Japan: Reception of Western drama in the Taisho period |
Martin Nordeborg |
University of Gothenburg |
se |
| s08e08 |
2024-05-16 |
Finding their niche: Unheard stories of migrant women |
Megha Wadhwa |
Free University of Berlin |
de |
| s08e09 |
2024-05-23 |
Mangastudien und „Populärkultur“: Eine Retrospektive |
Jaqueline Berndt |
Stockholm University |
se |
| s08e10 |
2024-06-06 |
Beauty and Money - Managing (Un)certainty in the Japanese Antique Art Trade |
Harald Conrad |
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf |
de |
| s08e11 |
2024-06-13 |
Feminisms in Japan in transnational longterm perspective |
Ilse Lenz |
University of Bochum |
de |
| s08e12 |
2024-06-20 |
Tradition and Growth: American Conservative Adoption of Nihonjin- ron in the 1970s and 1980s |
Jennifer Miller |
Dartmouth College |
us |
| s08e13 |
2024-06-27 |
The Affective Power of Vulnerability – From Yoshitsune to yowai robotto |
Elena Giannoulis |
Free University Berlin |
de |
