I am a sociocultural anthropologist and have been conducting research on various aspects of aging and the care of older people in Japan since 2005.
In 2015 I was awarded an Enhancing Life Project Early Career Award to conduct ethnographic research on the meanings of family caregiving and the experience of compassion in the UK and Japan. This research has now been published as a book, titled Fragile Resonance: Caring for older family members in Japan and England (Cornell University Press, 2022).
My current research project was funded by an SSRC Abe Fellowship, and focuses on the lives of formerly incarcerated older people in Japan. It also looks at the role of third-sector organizations in providing support for older people who have been impacted by the criminal justice system, and who are often isolated and estranged from kin or community relations.