A new semester has begun and Visual Anthropology of Japan students from all over the world are already out there in Osaka, Kyoto and beyond shooting and blogging. Their first set of posts with the theme of “Early Impressions” can be found and accessed by scrolling down to the Fall 2009 Student “Two-Frame Story” Photo Blogs section on the left. I am especially impressed and pleased with my students’ early impressions of Japan and how they challenge long-held stereotypes and frame them ethno-photographically with their cameras. They are already discovering aesthetics, cultural values and diversity in their new found research settings. Of special concern this semester is the ethics involved in taking photographs of Japanese people in public.

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