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Author: Morgan Pitelka

Books and Articles/Japan

New Offerings from Hawai’i

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

I’ve been absent from Frog in a Well for some time for reasons I explain here, so feel a bit rusty at this. But I was inspired by my receipt of the new Un...

General/Japan/Politics

Recipe for a New Japan? A Dash of Venus

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

The recent victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the Lower House, just two years after its surprise victory in the Upper House, is only slightly les...

Academia/Art/Japan/Museums

Samurai Exhibit Pwned

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 8 Comments

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been targeted by an anonymous artistic and political intervention that parodies the current Lords of the Samurai exhib...

Economic/Japan

The (Ongoing) Economic Crisis

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

One of my students is doing a summer research project on the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s and we just looked at Jon Woronoff’s book The Japanese...

Academia/Books and Articles/Japan

Association for Asian Studies Publications

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

I just received Tools of Culture: Japan’s Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s, part of the Asia Past and...

Events/Film/Japan/Museums

Film Festival

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Just received this from friends at the Japanese American National Museum: The Japanese American National Museum is accepting film & video submissions for th...

Academia/Events/Japan/Medieval/安土桃山

A bounty of medieval symposia

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

Premodernists, particularly those who focus on history, sometimes feel gloomy about the state of premodern Japanese studies in the U.S., where a number of large...

Books and Articles/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Popular Culture

Say hello to your new robot overlords!

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

A recent article in the Japan Times, pointed out to me by a resourceful student (thanks Lindsay!), shows that the future imagined in Ghost in the Shell and othe...

Art/Current/Recent Events/Events/Japan/Museums

Samurai-related events, Bowers Museum

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

The Bowers Museum in southern California opens a new exhibition this Sunday, “Art of the Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum.” In con...

Archaeology/Japan/Journals

Noteworthy Archaeological Sites, Issue 2008

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Walter Edwards of Tenri University reported in a message to H-Japan that the newest issue of “Noteworthy Archaeological Sites” is online. The report...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/Education/Japan/Media/Pedagogy/Science and Technology/Teaching

New Media and Japanese Studies

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

WARNING: those of you interested in Japanese studies but not in internet technologies, new media, and the whole question of how digital learning does or doesn&#...

Academia/Historiography/Japan/Medieval/Teaching

The Soul of Japan

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 8 Comments

I’m teaching a survey course on premodern Japanese history this semester. It focuses on medieval and early modern Japan, and I wanted the first paper to d...

General/Japan

Any reaction? Land of the Sinking Sun

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

Guardian reporter Justin McCurry weighs in with an interesting commentary on Japan’s role in the financial turmoil currently roiling across the globe.

Japan/Politics

The Crazy Guy for Prime Minister, Please

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

OK, admittedly I am supremely unqualified to write a post about the current prime ministerial vacancy in Japan. I’m a historian who works on the 16th cent...

Diaspora/Japan/Popular Culture

Otakon: Desperately Seeking Academics

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

I hear through the grapevine that the organizers of Otakon, the huge anime/manga/pop culture convention held every in August in Baltimore, are looking for acade...

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