Evangelia Papoutsaki MA Leeds, PhD Cardiff, MRSNZ

My research in the southern Japanese isles has been full of inspiring encounters. Mr. Nishihara is one of these rare humans whose...

Design art meets useable art. Bruce Lee Torizawa's studio in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto is a cornucopia of patterns, colors, fabrics,...

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...

After several weeks of an idyllic existence, cocooned from the rest of the world in the peaceful Amami islands, I found myself in Okinawa...

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...

Island museum encounters: knowing the typhoon was coming fast, I run into the Okinawa Prefecture Art Museum before the grant deluge...

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...

As I am getting closer to complete the first part of my data collection in the Amami Islands (I will be back!), I am reflecting on the...