As JASCA President Yasumasa Sekine mentioned in his opening address, this symposium built on two prior JASCA events over the past two years: the first international symposium held in November 2014 at Hosei University and a roundtable on internationalization/ globalization and cultural anthropology held at the 2015 JASCA annual meeting. The former symposium, featured in Volume 15 of the Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology (JRCA), focused on the state of the anthropology of Japan in the age

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... f internationalization (kokusaika) with a keynote lecture given by British anthropologist Joy Hendry. Hendry (2014: 51-70) reflected on her forty-year career as an anthropologist of Japan, pointing to the importance of "mutual anthropology" involving collaboration with Japanese anthropologists. A roundtable discussion on bridging the anthropology of Japan inside and outside Japan