As Japan enters the post-growth era and the redevelopment of Tokyo and elsewhere continues, intimate local spaces such as public baths are rapidly giving way to modern high-rises, altering patterns of everyday life and the meaning of urban space. What is lost in this process and how can we preserve what makes Japanese cities so rich? Join Sam Holden, a writer who restores public baths and vacant houses in Tokyo and Onomichi, for a discussion of Japan's evolving urban culture and new ways of life for a shrinking future.

Speakers:
Sam Holden, Writer, Translator, and Renovation Activist
Ulrike Schaede, Professor and Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
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This Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego is organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. For more information on JFIT activities, as well as recordings of previous Japan Zoominars, please visit jfit.ucsd.edu.