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Narratives of Gender

I found the innovative strategy of raising up issues in the form of questions in dialogue session. Bureaucrats cannot thoroughly realize...

Mapping assignment- free exploration!

Many people are either flooding in to the metro station, or to the little bars and restaurants in the small alleys behind the glass...

Reflection on Narratives of National Symbols

The political incentives to establish a bicameral legislature structure was at first to convince Western countries that Japan was in line...

Narratives of Peace and Victimhood

on individual perspectives have tremendous powers, because we could easily imagine that person suffered in the war could be us.  The...

Narratives of Tradition

I found the construction of the concept of “tradition” is a process of recreating and re-imaging the history, which is similar to what...

Narratives of Japanese Decline

Several things I found very interesting are how emotions are used as a political tool, the power hierarchies in trans-pacific and East...

Weekly reflection 1- My First Impression of Japan

I arrived in Tokyo on June 21st, two days prior to the program start day. I did random explorations in the city and I observed people,...

Weekly Reflection 3-Excursion!

This week we traveled to Nagoya, Hiroshima, Himeji, and Kyoto to experience “the other side” of Japan. Our first stop was Nagoya, in...

Weekly Reflection 4 --Wrap up!

The time went fast to the last week of the program, we finished our final presentation at the last day of the program. Our Final...

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