Out of Site, Out of Mind? Ethnographies of Japan, Outside Japan

Chris McMorran is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is a cultural geographer of contemporary Japan focusing on the geographies of home across scale. He is author of Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (2022, University of Hawai’i Press), an ethnography of a Japanese inn based on twelve months spent scrubbing baths, washing dishes, and making guests feel at home in Kurokawa Onsen. He has published research on tourism, disasters, gendered labor, area studies, field-based learning, and popular culture, including as co-editor of Teaching Japanese Popular Culture (co-edited with Deborah Shamoon 2016, AAS Press). Chris also co-produces (with NUS students) the Home on the Dot podcast, which explores the complex spaces and meanings of home in Singapore. Contributors xi