Project Report : Tokyo

Miyagi : Tokyo : Osaka : Hiroshima

  • Day one Orientation
  • overview
  • 8/5
  • 8/6
  • 8/7
  • 8/8
  • 8/9
  • Presentation
  • Leaving Japan
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Today’s theme: Tokyo office workers. First, the team shoots pictures of people during rush hour.

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Checking to see if the pictures have come out all right. The group’s interpreter, Ying-san, is a great help since she is studying film in graduate school.

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Walking through the Nishishinjuku business district.

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Nishishinjuku high-rise business district.

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Just behind the skyscrapers is a completely different townscape.

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Xiaoyuan, from Inner Mongolia, is unaccustomed to the humid Tokyo heat. She puts up a good fight.

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Xiajun is full of curiosity.

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At a park near the skyscrapers of the business district.

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The team interviews office workers on their lunch break.

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Choosing photos at the TJF office in the afternoon. “Who wants to keep this one?”

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Nakajima-san, the team’s photographer. She keeps the team upbeat with her natural cheeriness.

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Yuika-san, the Wako Senior High School photography club president who helped the team out.