Professor Richard Talbert opened the Arnold Visiting Professor Lecture by asking students “what time is it?” While a knowledge of time is generally taken for granted, Talbert's lecture showed how it...
Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” is a visual spectacle that never quite escapes the stereotypes of a large-budget Hollywood release. Set in a near-future Japan, an authoritarian leader banishes all...
Assistant Professor of History Jakobina Arch studies environmental and Japanese history. Wire reporter Ben Kunz sat down with Professor Arch to discuss her first book, released this month, “Bringing...
Japan has always had a rich cinematic history. It has produced some of the all time greatest and most influential directors, including the international cinema giants Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and...
Shuji Terayama's massive creativity far outweighs his recognition, at least in America. Born in 1935, he seemed to have limitless artistic energy, producing avant-garde poetry, drama, prose, photography,...
Welcome to my blog, friends, family, and interested parties. I depart for Japan in a little less than a week, so I decided to kick off the blog with a short personal introduction as well as an overview...
Tokyo, 3/20/12 (pictures pending)
The Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is famous for guess what? Fish! And therefore, sushi (it's Japan, after all). So for breakfast I feasted on fresh, raw fish atop rice...
Damn, it happened again. I have this unfortunate tendency to stifle my own writing and put off writing about easy or simple things because I have multiple big ideas for posts, and I feel like I owe it...
I had to do it. It had been bothering me for weeks, months maybe. My host sister has hair down to her hips, but I can't stand it once it starts to pass my shoulders. But I am also lazy, so I...
"It's been four months and I've still only just scratched the surface of Japanese culture." "Every time one question is answered, another surfaces." "Japan is more than what it looks like on the surface."...
A quick note on the host family experience...
As an only child, I have never and probably will never completely understand what it is like to have a sibling. It is one of the reasons I requested...
Okay, so I am about to attempt to describe the past (three, four?) weeks I haven't been blogging with 12 pictures! Here we go.
Fall Break in Japan
While a bunch of people went...
