現代日本のトイレ文化の特質と占領期日本の衛生問題

日本的高科技厕所在国际上引起轰动。我的假设是，理解日本高科技厕所物质文化的关键可能是在盟军占领日本时期的宣传材料中找到的。我主要从事文献分析工作，从文学资料、报纸文章到官方文件，通过在国际会议上发表演讲，传播研究成果，提高了研究成果在学术界的知名度，并代表东京大学和日本发表论文。在奖学金期间，我发表了4篇文章，并成功编辑了《日本研究杂志》的特刊。 关于重要的结果，我在《世界废弃物：跨学科研究杂志》上发表的文章《日本前现代粪便收集系统的文化起源》中，对粪便习性的理论进行了改进。发表在Silva Iaponicarum上的“理解日本相对较高的排泄物社会可见度”是第一篇解决日本排泄经验模糊性的文章：一方面，日本拥有世界上最先进的厕所，但另一方面，排泄物有许多象征性的表现形式（例如电视上对排便的评论或粪便形状的商品）。我把这种现象解释为排便的概念和实践之间的二分法：在日本的现代粪便习惯中，概念与原始的概念保持一致，而实践则适应了西方的概念。

Japanese high-tech toilets are an international sensation.　My hypothesis was that the key to understanding material culture of Japanese high-tech toilets may be found in propaganda materials from the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan. I conducted mostly document analysis: from literary sources, newspaper articles to official documents.I was able to disseminate findings of my research through many presentations at　international conferences which improved the visibility of my research in academia as well as　represented The University of Tokyo and Japan.And I published four articles during the fellowship and managed to edit a special issue of a Journal of Japanese studies. Regarding significant results, I improved the theory of a fecal habitus in the article “Cultural Origins of Japan’s Premodern Night Soil Collection System” published in the Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.“Understanding Relatively High Social Visibility of Excrement in Japan” published in Silva Iaponicarum is the first article to address the ambiguity of the excretory experience in Japan: on one hand, the country has the most advanced toilets in the world, but on the other, there are many symbolic manifestations of excrement (e.g. commentaries on bowel movement on TV or poop-shaped merchandise). I explain this phenomenon as dichotomy between the notion and practice of defecation: in Japan’s modern fecal habitus, the notion remained the same as in the original one, while the practice adapted the Western one.