Creating parallel society?: Capturing ethnoscape through visual ethnography of South Asians in Japan

2020年，我在名古屋德栗寺进行了长期的视觉民族志实地考察，以更深入地了解支持日本名古屋移民的民间社会。通过对高冈神父的关注，我对民间社会在名古屋帮助移民的情况有了更广泛的了解。我还深入研究了因新冠疫情失去工作的越南移民，他们在名古屋德栗寺等待回国的一天。我利用视觉人种学和参与者观察的方法来收集越南移民日常生活的经验数据。这些越南移民中有许多人能够返回自己的祖国。我还跟踪了他们离开的动作。在实地考察和收集视觉人种学数据后，我对它们进行了记录、审查和分析，以准备在人种学电影中发表我的研究结果。

In 2020, I conducted long-term visual ethnographic fieldwork in Tokurinji Temple, Nagoya, to gain a deeper understanding of the civil society that is supporting immigrants in Nagoya, Japan. By focusing on the temple priest Takaoka, I have achieved a broader picture of the civil society helping immigrants in Nagoya. I have also done in-depth research on Vietnamese immigrants who have lost their jobs due to the corona pandemic and staying at Tokurinji Temple, Nagoya, and waiting a day returning to their home country. I utilized visual ethnographic and participant-observation methods to collect empirical data focusing on Vietnamese immigrants' everyday lives. Many of these Vietnamese immigrants were able to return to their home country. I also followed their departure movements.After fieldwork and collecting visual ethnographic data, I have logged, reviewed, and analysed them to prepare my research results for publication in an ethnographic film.