Japan’s Visual Packaging Culture – Developing a Hierarchy of Symbols Yesterday (21 September 2025), I presented a paper, ‘Japan’s Visual Packaging Culture – Developing a Hierarchy of Symbols’, at the EAJS Conference in Sendai in September. I would to onc…

Japan’s Visual Packaging Culture – Developing a Hierarchy of Symbols

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“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Six: One for All, All for One Building upon the previous chapter, this chapter discusses a range of issues relating to the development of a group mentality and what the position of the individual is. The first section particularly...

“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Six: One for All, All for One

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“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Three: Visual Packaging Culture Building upon the discussions in Chapters 1 and 2, this chapter discusses a range of issues that relate to images and symbols. The chapter begins by considering the way in which we can understand some...

“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Three: Visual Packaging Culture

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“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter One: Studying Japan This chapter covers a range of issues relating to how and what to study in relation to Japan. Starting with considering some of the things to study, which are framed as being ‘symbols’, it moves on to...

“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter One: Studying Japan

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Visual Packaging Culture What underpins much of my research is an interest in symbolism and how symbols can be used to understand aspects of Japan. Although this aspect of my research may be most apparent in my publication…

Visual Packaging Culture

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Book Review: “An Affair with a Village” by Joy Hendry Back in the relatively early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, I attended a webinar by Joy Hendry on her ‘affair with a village’. It was not that the webinar was based on a book that would be…

Book Review: “An Affair with a Village” by Joy Hendry

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Wrapping Culture – Surrounding Much of My Research In my recent post Reporting and Responding to Disasters, I not only pointed to the significance of the idea of important/unimportant lives in the media (and the public) that is discussed in the nov…

Wrapping Culture – Surrounding Much of My Research

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