Global History and Culture Centre Blog
Lockdown Stories: Spending the Global Pandemic in Tokyo
In early May GHCC director Anne Gerritsen wrote to the extended GHCC community to start mapping their experiences of the global pandemic. She has written about the idea behind the survey here and discussed concepts of the 'local' during the pandemic here. In this third instalment of the GHCC pandemic mini-series, Dr Christian Hess (Sophia University, Tokyo) reflects on his life in lockdown from the vantage point of a North American academic in suburban Western Tokyo.