Chronicles in Japan

Abstract

This is a very personal non-academic chronicle which has no theme except the one that brings together various experiences and reflections about some trips to Japan, between 2017 and 2019. Chile and the Land of the Rising Sun are devastated from time to time by earthquakes and tsunamis, triggered in the subduction zones within the Pacific Ring of Fire. Its inhabitants, however, come from cultures that face this fierce destiny in very different ways. Driven by curiosity, I shifted the everyday life at my Chilean office with the clean air from its temples, its university campuses and the labs at The Tokyo University. These lines and the videos included at the end of the text collect part of those experiences.