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Open AccessPublished: 5 June 2025

Exploring TESOL Pedagogies in Japan: An Autoethnographic Study of Eikaiwa Teaching Practices

Dominic Bryan San Jose, Melona Guitche

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 64-77 · 10.55121/card.v5i1.409

With eikaiwa (English conversation schools) playing a crucial role in Japan’s English education landscape, the pedagogical methods used in eikaiwa have received relatively little attention. Thus, utilizing the three-dimensional framework of temporality, sociality, and spatiality, this autoethnographic study explored and document

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Open AccessPublished: 1 December 2022

Exploring the Effect of a Cultural Gap on the Process of Absorbing Business Knowledge

Yayoi Hirose

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 1-17 · 10.55121/card.v3i1.59

This study explores the implications of the difference between Japanese and Anglo-American cultures when Japanese organizations try to absorb business knowledge generated in Anglo-American culture. It relies on Todorova & Durisin’s model of Absorptive Capacity (2007) which allows for multi-level, individual, group, and organizat

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Open AccessPublished: 23 September 2025

Deafness and Sound in Small, Slow but Steady (2022)

Xinyi Wang

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 94-103 · 10.55121/card.v5i2.640

This article focuses on the Japanese contemporary film Small, Slow but Steady and explores how deaf people experience sound physically, through the body. Among contemporary Japanese films that challenge ableist views of deafness, Small, Slow but Steady bridges the gap between hearing and deafness by portraying its deaf protagoni

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