September 2009
2 posts
Neighborhood Hirakata
Not quite the average resident of Hirakata City, it’s very difficult to experience the more complex social phenomena occurring on the other side of the social and linguistic barrier. But observing the city from an anthropological perspective, some of the more fundamental principles of Japanese society are still easy to see.
My neighborhood’s roads aren’t particularly busy, but...
first impressions of Japan
If I were to post photos of the things that really impressed me upon first arriving in Japan, you’d probably see a lot of novelty quasi-English t-shirts, or shots of me throwing up deuces next to a beer vending machine. And if you could visually capture such abstract things as my profound exhuberance at being on an island on the other side of the planet - an incredibly beautiful one at that...