Paul Lindberg

May 15 Shrine Headquarters and Waseda University Professor
05-30-06 | 11:31

With two interviews and much to shoot in Tokyo, we were very busy hoping around this huge megalopolis.

First, we interviewed priests at the Headquarters of Shrines. This interview was another voice to explain the mix of religion and culture in the modern and traditional attitudes of Japan. The interview taught me most the desire to say the right thing about the subject versus the most spiritual.

In Japan, people don’t question the Shinto Religion. It is more culture and custom than faith and religion. People don’t often question their customs and my interview was part of these questions of my project but less about right and wrong and more about truth.

Second, we had an interview with an associate professor at Waseda University who had been studying the connection between the local area, which I was living in and its connection to Korea. This professor’s research was a very interesting part of the puzzle. He is a student of the history of architecture. He has studied the similarities in buildings in Japan and Korea along the coastal regions linking the two countries. Over a thousand years ago, the borders of these regions didn’t exist in our sense.

Later, we filmed around Tokyo.