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Tag Archives: Sendai
Funding Short-term Research Projects: Conducting an Oral History in Sendai
As some of our Twitter and Facebook followers may know, back in February, my colleague Malina Suity and I ran a Kickstarter campaign to support an oral history project we conducted in Japan. The project was an epic foray into … Continue reading
Posted in culture, financial assistance, funding, graduate school, main posts, social networking
Tagged art, artisans, Edo-goma, funding, grants, Japan, koma, oral history, research, Sendai, side project, tops
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Book Announcement: 3.11 as History: a book (E/J)
Published on 3.11 by staff members of Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai. The title of the book is 『歴史としての東日本大震災 口碑伝承をおろそかにするなかれ』(岩本由輝編、刀水書房、2013年). It contains 5 articles, written by faculty member living either in the Sendai region, or in Soma City, Fukushima.
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Tagged 311, book announcement, books, Japan, Sendai, Tohoku earthquake, Tohoku Gakuin University, Tohoku tsunami
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Fun Link Friday: Toyo Ito Wins Pritzker Prize 2013
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been named as the 2013 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Read the announcement and see a visual overview of his life’s work, including the Sendai Mediatheque library (which survived the 2011 earthquake), on Dezeen. … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, dezeen, fun link friday, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Sendai, Spoon and Tamago, Toyo Ito
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Sent to Sendai: Reflections of an ALT after the Tohoku Earthquake
On March 11, 2011, I had no idea that I would be moving to Sendai, Japan in less than half a year. When the earthquake happened at 2:46PM in Japan, it was 12:46AM in Washington, D.C. and I was asleep. I … Continue reading
Posted in living abroad, main posts
Tagged 311, ALT, disaster, disaster relief, earthquake, Japan, JET, Sendai, teaching, Tohoku, Tohoku disaster, Tohoku earthquake, Tohoku tsunami, tsunami, volunteering
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