Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology ...

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Japanese work culture can be many things: diplomatic, hierarchical, conformist, machine-like and even suffocating. Globally, ...

Trump’s war on America’s racial history has claimed my book as a casualty — ironically, a best-seller that conservatives ...

Acknowledging it is crucial to a more honest reckoning with the past and a more just moral stance in the present ...

Are Shinto and Buddhism truly separate in Japan—or two parts of the same cultural fabric? This deep dive examines how Buddhist philosophy and Shinto kami worship coevolved over 1,500 years. From ...

Art fellows with The AjA Project explore displacement and silencing in their new exhibit on the history of Japanese American ...

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