This project forms part of the larger research initiative “Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach,” led by Professor David H. Slater. 

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Within this wider initiative, my work has contributed to developing the project’s visual and narrative approaches to displacement in Japan. In 2024, I helped build a shared intellectual foundation through the lecture series Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film, organized with the Institute of Comparative Culture and the Free University of Berlin. This series brought filmmakers, scholars, and practitioners into dialogue around themes of displacement, memory, representation, and migrant storytelling, strengthening public engagement and interdisciplinary exchange.

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In 2025, my involvement has focused on deepening the project’s ethnographic and visual research components. This phase examined objects and material culture in migration narratives, exploring how everyday things carry memory, identity, and emotion across borders. I also contributed to research on how digital technologies shape migrant experiences, communication, and memory practices. Collectively, these efforts form part of a larger, ongoing project that is building a rich visual and narrative archive of migration in contemporary Japan, offering new insights into belonging, memory, and the creative strategies migrants use to navigate their lives across borders.