Little Yangon, Takadanobaba, Tokyo, Japan

Winter 2023

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Fellowship

“The difference between Takadanobaba and other neighborhoods [in Tokyo]: the streetscape is an arrangement of Burmese letters, Japanese characters, and English texts. A visual collage of the diaspora. Little Yangon is a neighborhood that advertises, dresses, and renders visible the diversity and cultures Tokyo is home to.”

Full article: https://laidlawscholars.network/posts/lia-little-yangon

Thank you to Moe Thauk Kywe library and its co-founder Ma Tin Tin Win who gratefully took me under their wing for this trip and introduced me to Little Yangon for the first time. I would also like to thank Ma Khine Zin Kyaw and Ko Oggar for showing me around Tokyo and Little Yangon as well. I will also like to thank Kristin Ramsay our Laidlaw coordinator from Cornell University and Professor Jessica Ratcliff for their support.