“The Making of a Japanese”: Ema Ryan Yamazaki Movingly Documents Elementary School Life in Japan

A teacher shows her students the proper way to handle a broom. (© Cineric Creative/NHK/Pystymetsä/Point du Jour)

Students serve lunch to their classmates, a duty that everyone shares in turn. (© Cineric Creative/NHK/Pystymetsä/Point du Jour)

Ema Ryan Yamazaki. (© Hanai Tomoko)

A screening of The Making of a Japanese in Finland. (© Cineric Creative/NHK/Pystymetsä/Point du Jour)

A screening of The Making of a Japanese in Finland. (© Cineric Creative/NHK/Pystymetsä/Point du Jour)