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JAWS/AJJ Conference 2025 – Hyogo
The Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) and the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) joint conference will be held in Kobe from April 4th (Friday) to April 6th (Sunday), 2025. The conference will take place in person, focusing on the theme: Ritual Practices and Daily Rituals in Japanese Society. The conference and its program will be … Read more
Treasurer and Membership Secretary Giulia De Togni
I am honoured to act as the new JAWS Membership Secretary and Treasurer. I would like to thank Ruth Martin as the former JAWS Membership Secretary and Treasurer for her hard work, together with former Secretary General Brigitte Steger and former Internal Auditor Fabio Gygi. I am delighted to join forces with the new Secretary … Read more
31st JAWS conference
The 31st JAWS conference took place from July 6-9, 2022 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. You can now watch the video here.
Go-aisatsu from the Secretary General 2022
It is a great honor for me to greet you as incoming Secretary General of JAWS. Let me begin by once again thanking the outgoing SG, Brigitte Steger for her wonderful work over a long and productive period. I certainly hope that I can learn from Brigitte, in the confidence that following in your wise … Read more
‘Post-disaster’ and the value of long-term ethnography by Anna Vainio
This piece is the concluding part of the JAWS online series of Reflections from Tōhoku. Disasters today continue to be seen as events revolving around physical recovery – at least in public discourse. Some of the reasons for this may be that physical recovery and reconstruction are easier to comprehend, rather than the complex … Read more
Kizuna: Reflections on the promotion of social cohesion during more than ten years of recovery by Julia Gerster
This piece is the first part of the JAWS online series of Reflections from Tōhoku It was the earthquake, not my alarm clock, that woke me up on March 11th 2011. At that point I was about six months into my study abroad year in Tokyo as an undergrad. I had spent the night … Read more