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Aotani Village: Inaka in Osaka | The Bigger Red Dot
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The Bigger Red Dot. Visual anthropological perspectives on Japan. Laquo; Photographers: Annie Leibovitz and James Nachtwey. Aotani Village: Inaka in Osaka. November 9, 2010 by timmtay. Aotani Village, Kashiwara City. It is also Aotani Village in Kashiwara City. Traditional Japanese Houses in Aotani. I was invited to a “thanksgiving”. Japanese street-food) and ran a mini-carnival. What fascinated me most was the bond of this community. Everyone knows everyone else in the village, and greets each other...
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timmtay | The Bigger Red Dot
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The Bigger Red Dot. Visual anthropological perspectives on Japan. Posts by Tim Tay:. December 9, 2010. November 30, 2010. November 21, 2010. November 9, 2010. Aotani Village: Inaka in Osaka. October 21, 2010. Photographers: Annie Leibovitz and James Nachtwey. October 6, 2010. A Portrait of a Japanese College Student. September 28, 2010. Older Posts ». Visual Anthropology of Japan. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The Bigger Red Dot.
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The Bigger Red Dot. Visual anthropological perspectives on Japan. Early impressions of Japan. September 17, 2010 by timmtay. The second time aboard a plane for Narita, Tokyo, was different from the first. Seeing 富士山 from the plane, for one, was a first for me. Ed, spent every single 100 Yen coin I had on UFO Catchers. On the WC’s seat-warmers while playing with its washlets. That wasn’t all. I was baffled by the lack of trashcans, yet the immaculately clean sidewalks. In that span of a week...Train and b...
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Trains of Japan | The Bigger Red Dot
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The Bigger Red Dot. Visual anthropological perspectives on Japan. Laquo; Volunteer in Japan. November 30, 2010 by timmtay. I’ve been in Japan a little over three months now. During this short span of time, I’ve taken the trains at least sixty times and traversed across six prefectures. With my weekly travels to Kyoto and Osaka city, the trains in Japan have become a part of my life now. Rush Hour Crowd Exiting Makino Station. Bringing people to places. Rush Hour Crowd Exiting Chushojima Station. Train st...
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About | The Bigger Red Dot
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The Bigger Red Dot. Visual anthropological perspectives on Japan. A junior at a local public university on the sunny island of Singapore, majoring in Psychology. Currently on an exchange program in Osaka, Japan, attending Asian Studies classes in Cross-Cultural Psychology and Visual Anthropology. In the short span of five months, the author seeks to find understanding of Japanese culture and identity through attempts at anthropological research, inevitably through the lens of a Singaporean; a confused sp...
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West of the East: July 2010
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West of the East. A full description of my study-abroad experience at Kansai Gaidai, in Osaka, Japan, Aug.-Dec. 2010. "Full" means all the gory, administrative details (like application process! As well as all that "cultural experience" (kimonos! Stuffand studying. Right, studying. Saturday, July 31, 2010. On Kansai Gaidai's part:. Applications for the Speaking Partner Program and Home Visit Program (deadline was July 20.I think I managed to e-mail it in while it was still that day in Japan 8D). Relevant...
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West of the East: October 2010
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West of the East. A full description of my study-abroad experience at Kansai Gaidai, in Osaka, Japan, Aug.-Dec. 2010. "Full" means all the gory, administrative details (like application process! As well as all that "cultural experience" (kimonos! Stuffand studying. Right, studying. Sunday, October 31, 2010. Madonna is so wrong. By the way, just for context, I'm supposed to be writing a paper for my Japan-China class right now. maybe we can say this is warm-up? Thursday, October 14, 2010. My gut reaction ...
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West of the East: December 2010
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West of the East. A full description of my study-abroad experience at Kansai Gaidai, in Osaka, Japan, Aug.-Dec. 2010. "Full" means all the gory, administrative details (like application process! As well as all that "cultural experience" (kimonos! Stuffand studying. Right, studying. Friday, December 31, 2010. And so it end.ed. I've been home for more than a week and made not a single bit of progress in catching up on this blog! Study abroad is over. And then, "real life" begins after graduating from school.