The Institute of Comparative Culture at
Sophia University, Ichigaya Campus, Tokyo sponsors the
ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN IN JAPAN (AJJ) Fall Workshop
CITY LIFE IN JAPAN
Program
**Saturday Nov. 1st: Urban Youth**
Youth Culture and Contacts (10:30) (Undergraduate Panel)
Chairs: Risako Ide (Tsukuba) and Todd Holden (Tohoku)
- Fujino Mako (Keio): Club Culture and the Internet
- Narui, Rie (Keio): The Internet, Culture, Life, and Values of Youth in Japan
- Komaki Ryuta (Jochi): An Ethnographic Approach to Mobile Phone Messaging in Japan
- Kurimoto Shigeaki (Keio):Shibuya Street Scene
Youth and Urban Sex (1:30)
Chairs: Kyle Cleveland (Temple) and Kawabata Miki (Meijiro)
- Philip Sawkins (Oxford-Brooks): “Playful Attraction: Examining Japanese cruising
- Shana Fruehan (Chicago): Sex in the City: Tokyo women’s narratives about dating and sexual relationships
- James Farrer (Jochi): International and Intercultural Dating among Japanese Youth
Youth Alternative in the City (3:30)
Chair: David Slater (Jochi)
- Kusumoto Wakako (Illinois): The City as a Niche for Freelancers
- Horiguchi Sachiko (Oxford): The emergence of the ‘hikikomori’ problem: youth social withdrawal in Japan
- Robert Yoder (Chuo): Class culture, conflict and youth deviance in Japan
Reception 6 pm (about 2000 yen)
**Sunday Nov. 2nd: City Space and Society**
Tokyo Social and Public Space (10:30)
Chair: Kit Weddle (UNU) and Jerry Eades (Ritsumeikan/APU)
- Joanne Jakovich (Tokyo Univ.): Tokyo Code: Investigating Complexity in Tokyo via Diagraphics
- Julian Worrall (Tokyo Univ.): Plan, Design, or Edit? Considerations on urban practice between architecture and anthropology
Space, Designed, Controlled and Lived (1:30)
Chair: John Clammer (Jochi)
- Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin): Homeless Policy in Tokyo
- Roman Cybriwsky (Temple): Deconstructing Roppongi Hills
- Tsu Yun Hui, (Nat. Univ. of Singapore): Nature in the Self-narratives of Kôbe