Screens In Japan – Ethnographic Study Pt. 2

In conducting research for my ethnographic study, I decided it would be appropriate to examine scholarly resources like Wagatsuma’s ‘Study of Personality and Behaviour in Japanese Society and Culture’ (1970), as well as Caudill’s ‘The Study of Japanese Personality and Behaviour’ (1970). While not as recent as I would have liked them to be, they…

Public Mobile Phone Use in Japan

"Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish." -Jocelyn Goldfein While mobile phone use in Tokyo is ubiquitous, it is courteous. Citizens are expected to respect each other's privacy and public distance while on public transport, despite being purveyor's of the some of the world's most advanced technology, like emotionally sensitive artificial intelligence and therapy…