From 2004-2024 I introduced Japan to visiting foreign officials for the government foreign aid agency (Japan International Cooperation Agency or JICA). From 2020, when JICA could not bring participants to Japan, my recorded presentation by Zoom was shown at their branches overseas. Now, JICA has released the 98-minute recording from exclusive government ownership. It goes broadly and deeply from the origins of Japan 30,000+ years ago to contemporary ways of thinking and social behavior.
You know, it is quite possible to work for 20 years on something and end up with nothing to show for it. Therefore, it means so much, as my legacy, to be able to share this video publicly from now on:
"Japanese People and Society": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCTY8KNlJDo
YouTube channel (since 2006, before Google acquired it): https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMcCarty
Publications on Japan: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology
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