Abstract
This paper reflexively examines an anthropological life in and of Japan. The analysis, clearly micro in scope, dodges the critique of being 'narcissistic' through situating the discussion within recent theorizations of the cosmopolitan subject; what Ulrich Beck has called the "Cosmopolitan Moment"or uncontrollable risk and irony and what Nigel Rapport has coined the anthropology of "Anyone". The presentation is conducted in a rather "cosmopolitan" version of Japanese