Dr Mayumi Ono
Academic Visitor
Mayumi Ono is a Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She specializes in cultural anthropology and received her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. Her research interests include the anthropology of tourism, international retirement migration and lifestyle migration in Asia, health and wellness tourism, and the transnational mobility of patients seeking care.
Her recent conference presentations include “Digital Relatedness and Subjective Well-being of Japanese Retirement Migrants in Malaysia,” presented at the ATLAS Critical Tourism Studies in-between/regional Conference, Tourism and Mobilities in the Age of Reflexive Complexity (Kyoto, Japan, March 2026), and “The Notion of Not Being a Burden to Others among Japanese Retirement Migrants in Malaysia,” presented at AAS-in-Asia 2025, Association for Asian Studies (Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2025).
Her recent English-language publications include: Kelly Hall, Mayumi Ono, and Kohno Ayako (2021), “British and Japanese International Retirement Migration and Creative Responses to Health and Care Challenges: A Bricolage Perspective,” Comparative Migration Studies 9(7): 1–18; and “Fleeing from Constraints: Japanese Retirement Migrants in Malaysia,” in Blai Guarné and Paul Hansen (eds.), Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, pp. 199–218.