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No body goes to Tokyo without having a fantasy. Tokyo—complex, multifaceted, and unforgiving—is city of opportunity. A tempestuous, powerful vessel when it comes to pleasures, problems, and aspirations of increasingly disillusioned generations. A hub that is economic by pulsating, vibrating, neon circuits of worldwide industry and business. From around Japan plus the globe, individuals pour in to the city to create visions of these futures into truth and also to anew build their lives.
We went along to Tokyo with my ambitions that are own. I wanted to investigate what it means to be a brown Indian woman in Japan, and to negotiate the personal and political stakes of power, desire, and sex in its troublinglyВ notorious homogenous and xenophobic national space when I traveled there for a semester abroad in March 2017.
A Justice Ministry survey taken in anticipation for Japan to host the 2020 Olympics found that about 40% of foreign residents who sought housing in Japan had applications turned down and almost 25% were denied jobs in the past five years as a small but potent example.
I experienced begun learning Japanese in New Delhi, Asia, where I became created and raised, in senior high school; at university into the U.S., We declared majors in International Studies and Japanese. Through my classes, we gained fluency in Japanese, and became purchased knowing the discourses of battle that influence contemporary debates on migration, work, and nationhood in Japan. Continue reading