Author of the new book, "An Affair with a Village" and leading UK expert on Japan, Joy Hendry joins us to discuss a whole variety of things, like MEXT Scholarships, marriage, and other things that end up letting us down.Ollie gets Scandinavian with it.Bobby is surprised to find out there are as many as two.Topics discussed on this episode range from:How the current entry ban is affecting AcademiaJoy's perspective on the situation as someone who's been doing fieldwork in Japan for 50 yearsAnother historical entry ban and it's effects, and the story of Ron DoreWhat Joy thinks people can do in the interimActions people are taking now to deal with itThe Twitter response, and the twitter activismThe awesome resource share project some Twitter academics are undertakingThe network and community building that's occurringThe way the internet has changed Japan-research, and what Joy's earliest Japan fieldwork experiences were likeJoy's book An Affair With a VillageHow an anthropologist approaches and analyzes the things that all foreign residents of Japan live withWhy Japan thinks we can't sort our rubbishPotential conflicts of interest and how anthropologists avoid moral judgementsHow Joy chose what village to studyJoy's work studying the types of marriages, marriage by introduction and "love marriages"What Japan thinks is an incredibly important thing to do for anyone during research in the field in JapanHow LONG AGO was the 1970s in terms of what things were like in JapanLove hotels, and what people who lived in communal family country homes before love hotelsThe tradition of "night-creeping" and the woman who told her "night-creeping" story to JoyThe shift from "introductions" to "love marriages" during the time when Joy was researching it and how the delineations between the two weren't always clearBobby's strategy in getting his wife's family's permission to marry their daughterHow deeply marriage and other life events are tied to the Japanese idea of "continuing the line of the house" and carrying on the family businessMarriage as the longest-form of anthropological researchThis week's extras feature lots more insights from Joy and her years of work. From religion in Japan, to generational change, rules of engagement for anthropologists, and more!Get access to the extras for standard episodes by supporting the podcast for less than $1 an episode by becoming a member at http://buymeacoffee.com. Have something you'd like to say? Send us a fax at japanbyrivercruise.com - it works now.or Tweet to us at @jbrcpodJoy's Book:An Affair With a VillageSocial Media Links:Joy Hendry:  Extremis PublishingOllie Horn: Twitter | InstagramBobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeOther things to click onSome are affiliate links because we're sell-outsWe record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. Bobby uses a Shure mic and a Scarlet Focusrite. Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic.

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