{"id":5246,"date":"2005-06-20T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T08:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:13:37","slug":"87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/06\/87\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Intro: Tak Watanabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi, I’m Tak Watanabe, and I’ve just recently joined Frog in a Well. <\/p>\n

I am a cultural anthropologist who is keenly interested in the history of Japan. Currently a student at Columbia University<\/a> in New York, I hope to complete my dissertation in the very near future. In the fall of 2005, I will start teaching anthropology at Sophia University<\/a> in Tokyo. <\/p>\n

My dissertation is tentatively titled “After Prosperity: The Ethics of Restitution in Recessionary Japan.” It is based on ethnographic and archival research in Niihama, a city on the Japanese island of Shikoku known as a “corporate castle-town” of the Sumitomo business group. Nearby is the Besshi Copper Mine, which along with Ashio, Sado, and Ikuno, is one of the more famous non-coal mines in Japan. I primarily focus on how the city residents relate to this corporate group, and how this long-standing relationship is changing as the city undergoes a post-industrial and recessionary decline.<\/p>\n

You can read more about me, my research, and my other interests at my blog, The Old Revolution<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Oh, and about the image above. To celebrate my induction into this august line-up of smart and knowledgeable frogs, I figured I’d just post my favorite two-dimensional Japanese batrachian: Pyonkichi from the 1970s manga, Dokonjo-gaeru<\/em>. And he’s two-dimensional not only because he’s a manga character. In fact, he is a flat frog, squished onto a T-shirt of a middle-school boy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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