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Response to “Women of Fukushima” Documentary
by Miranda Solly The idea behind “Women of Fukushima” is one that you can see everywhere in charity and aid appeals. You take an issue, like drought, homelessness, or radiation, and you link it to...
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Promoting a More Lively Planet
by Kyle Phan When the earthquake damaged Fukushima a couple years ago, I knew something big had occurred because radiation is not a simple matter. It was only when I came to Japan that I learned from a...
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Thinking about “jiko sekinin”
by Yume Furumura When we do something by ourselves, we must have the responsibility in many cases. To become a member of the society, we need “self-responsibility” (jiko sekinin). In the book...
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Path Forward
by Jea Jeongmin Modern Japanese society faces lots of difficulties. The decline in marriage and birth rates causes an aging society, and the rise of “hikikomori” and suicide have been recent social...
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There’s more than one path to success
by Yuki Kamino I understood Anne Allison’s way of thinking about “jiko sekinin” in this way. She says that with high economic growth, our level of life has improved a lot and Japanese people gradually...
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The pros and cons of “jiko sekinin”
by Ami Yamada In Precarious Japan, Anne Allison regards the movement that forced people to have more self-responsibility (“jiko sekinin”) as a negative on the whole. After the bursting of bubble, the...
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Multiculturalism or Anti-Multiculturalism in Japan
by Naresh Kumar The Japanese version of multiculturalism is anti-multiculturalism. Every action or support, provided by the government and people of Japan is not for cultural minorities but for the...
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The blessed few in precarious Japan
Editor’s note: Students have been reading Anne Allison‘s Precarious Japan and are commenting how recent economic and social challenges in Japan are impacting their plans for their futures. by Atsushi...
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Precarious State Casting Shadow on My Future Vision
Editor’s note: Students have been reading Anne Allison‘s Precarious Japan and are commenting how recent economic and social challenges in Japan are impacting their plans for their futures. by Momoka...
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