In Japanese culture, for instance, the concept of 'Ikigai' encapsulates the idea of finding a reason to live or a sense of purpose in life. This connotation is deeply rooted in Japanese society's emphasis on harmony, respect, and the pursuit of personal fulfil...
Screenshot from interactive Web page on Asian movies in NY Times TheNew York Timesannounced recently anew seriesthat examines the output of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in popular culture. The first piece in the series, “Found in Translation: Asian Languages Onscreen,” is foc...
For those who are not yet familiar with this most recent meme of the cultural left, I want to explain that any “white” person who publicly dons “non-Western” garb or attire (e.g. Mexican sombrero, Japanese kimono, Afro-American dreadlocks) automatically becomes a racist “colonizer” wh...
It is arrogance which refuses to defer to the judgement of locals, because unless you deeply know their culture, language, history, have lived there extensively, etc., it is pure arrogance to pass judgement on their key cultural matters. That is why I openly admitted the limitatio...
2024 Culture Camp: Manga POP! Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States Attention, artists and manga fanatics! At our popular manga camp, create your own comics inspired by the Japanese manga style. Beginner to advanced students will learn new skills to bri...
2019. Chapter 9. Traditions of translation in Hebrew culture. InA World Atlas of Translation[Benjamins Translation Library, 145],►pp. 193 ff. Zehnalová, Jitka & Helena Kubátová 2019. From a target population to representative samples of translations and translators.The Translator25:2...
In Japanese folklore, the invisible household spirit “zashiki-warashi” becomes visible to the owners of a house when they decide to leave the house. Their leaving house is considered as a sign of bad luck in family, so the people consider this spirit as good luck. Jib-Tur in Korea, on...
From 1994 to 1997, he worked as a foreign guest researcher at Tokyo University and distinguished overseas artist (painter) from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Japan to study Japanese painting techniques and engage in painting creation in Japan. His paintings entered the 1st ...
we were in cooperation with academic experts to establish property data and map of the theatre during the Japanese colonial era in Taiwan, a total of 170 theatres; we were in cooperation with Japanese scholars, used his 44 detaile field survey data of sugar refineries during the Japanese coloni...
I’m a big fan of Rebecca Solnit’s Atlas Project, I don’t know if either of you are familiar, but basically she has these different maps that will put two different or related ideas alongside each other. So she has one in San Francisco that’s queer nightlife spaces and butterflies ...