- Nov 30, 2017
Island airwaves encounters
Part of my research with Sueo Kuwahara on the Amami islands is mapping their communication systems, including community radio and any...
- Nov 20, 2017
Island interview encounters
My research in the southern Japanese isles has been full of inspiring encounters. Mr. Nishihara is one of these rare humans whose...
- Nov 1, 2017
People pencil cases
Design art meets useable art. Bruce Lee Torizawa's studio in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto is a cornucopia of patterns, colors, fabrics,...
- Oct 19, 2017
Ethnic migrant media and the New NZ MP
A few years ago Jacinda Arden, then a Labour MP and just freshly announced new Prime minister of NZ, attended the Ethnic media forum I...
- Sep 16, 2017
Island of resistance encounters
After several weeks of an idyllic existence, cocooned from the rest of the world in the peaceful Amami islands, I found myself in Okinawa...
- Sep 14, 2017
Island 'radio-vending-machine-man' encounters
I have had some pretty awesome community media encounters so far in my research here in the Ryukyu islands but this one with Mr Ikehara...
- Sep 13, 2017
Nirai Kanai: happiness and plenty from the out beyond
Island museum encounters: knowing the typhoon was coming fast, I run into the Okinawa Prefecture Art Museum before the grant deluge...
- Sep 9, 2017
Islands in between
Island in between port encounters: standing in front of this man with the Yoron t-shirt while waiting for the Okinawa ferry at Yoron port...