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February 28, 2023
Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Urban Life and Spatial Cultures in Post-Growth Japan," with Sam Holden
From: Marcia Yang <mxyang@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2023/02/28
Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Urban Life and Spatial Cultures in Post-Growth Japan," with Sam Holden
Wed, Mar 8, 9:00-10:00 am JST (Tue, Mar 7, 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)
As Japan enters the post-growth era and the redevelopment of Tokyo and elsewhere continues, intimate local spaces such as public baths are rapidly giving way to modern high-rises, altering patterns of everyday life and the meaning of urban space. What is lost in this process and how can we preserve what makes Japanese cities so rich? Join Sam Holden, a writer who restores public baths and vacant houses in Tokyo and Onomichi, for a discussion of Japan's evolving urban culture and new ways of life for a shrinking future.
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Sam Holden is a writer, translator and renovation activist living in Tokyo. He completed an MA in urban studies at the University of Tokyo in 2017, where he researched emerging cultures of vacant space reuse in post-growth Japan. He is a co-founder of Tokyo Little House (http://littlehouse.tokyo), a cafe, hotel, and history gallery in a 75-year-old house in Akasaka, Tokyo; and Sento & Neighborhood (http://sento-to-machi.org), a non-profit dedicated to preserving Japan's disappearing public baths, which completed a restoration at Inari-yu, a public bath in Tokyo in 2022. Holden is also currently renovating two vacant houses in Onomichi, Hiroshima into a general store, library, and community space.
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the director of JFIT. Her research focuses on Japan's changing corporate strategies, including business culture, change management, and business organization. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition.
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