Sunday, July 13th, 2014 Today marks week one in Tokyo. Despite what the calendar says, my time in Tokyo has been so teeming with new culture, outings, readings, and people that I feel as if I have been here for several weeks already. After studying abroad at Peking University last fall, I expected to […]
Finding the Local in the Global: Japanese Karaoke
Week one in Japan has been filled with invaluable lessons and experiences, all of which relate to at least one of the three themes of Imagining the Global in some way or another. Examples of the local-global dyad are not only found inside of the classroom and during structured activities, but we can also find […]
Navigating Foreign Landscapes and Ambiguous Terminology
Exploring the three themes nature/culture, global/local, and stasis/change is foremost an experiment in the power of terminology. It’s difficult to even begin looking at representations of “nature” in Japan, for example, without first discussing the infinite understandings of what it means to be natural. That being said, my goal is to base my analysis of […]