Fieldwork in Chizu (Tottori, Japan) 2023-2024: Videos

This dataset contains videos taken by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. The author visited Chizu-town (智頭町) three times between 2023 and 2024. He participated at a number of events, such as philosophical cafés, a film-screening, welfare-related activities, and a disaster prevention gathering. The videos display the region’s abundant natural landscape and the shrine in the center of the town. It is the author’s aim to discuss places where local people gather to engage in conversations and community activities and how these places strengthen the respective community’s resilience.