A collection of brief videotaped encounters on one of Asher's travels to Japan. More poetic than ethnographic, the works playfully read the surfaces of Japanese modern life as it reacts to its American visitor.

Japan Tapes # 1 1997, 7:42 min, color, sound

It's Your Day 1997, 1:14 min, color, sound
This Stop, Next Stop 1997, 2:01 min, color, sound
Nickelodeon 1997, 45 sec, color, sound
Faceless 1997, 37 sec, color, sound
Salary Man 1997, 48 sec, color, sound
Nara 1997, 27 sec, color, sound
Kind 'A' Gear 1997, 56 sec, color, sound
Nerves and Laughter 1997, 30 sec, color, sound

Japan Tapes #2 1997, 10:12 min, color, sound

Tropical Vacation 1997, 57 sec, color, sound
Ichikawa-san 1997, 3:26 min, color, sound
Eyes of the Beholder 1997, 47 sec, color, sound
Seek and Hide 1997, 38 sec, color, sound
Cut-o 1997, 1:38 min, color, sound
Franchised Shakiness 1997, 36 sec, color, sound
Steven Spielberg 1997, 59 sec, color, sound
Wonder 1997, 49 sec, color, sound