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Author: Morgan Pitelka

Art/Japan/Libraries/Web Sites

Images of Late Medieval Disease Critters and Meiji Toys

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Japanese historical visual materials are becoming available online in increasing quantities and variety, as seen in two posts from the last week from Pink Tenta...

Diaspora/Events/Japan/US-Japan

Conference at the Huntington Library

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

I’ve been wanting to write about a wonderful local resource, the Huntington, for a long time, but couldn’t figure out how to work it into a post. It...

Academia/China-Japan/Education/Events/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan

“Early Modern” Periodization

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 5 Comments

I participated in a symposium on February 1st hosted by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Institute, on the topic of early modern periodization in East Asia. It w...

Academia/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Journals/Web Sites

Asian Studies Toolbar

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

A recent exchange on H-Asia mentioned the Asian Studies Toolbar, which I first read about in March of last year when the maker, John Noyce (“a librarian t...

Events/Japan/Media/US-Japan

2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 6 Comments

OK, fellow bloggers and Japan-watchers, I’d like to propose that we participate in the mass hysteria that is the year-end-review list. What media stories ...

Academia/Historiography/Japan/Japanese

Japanese History Workshop, Part II

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 5 Comments

I recently returned from a week in Sydney, Australia, and am happy to report that it has incredible Southeast Asian food and fresh seafood, amazing parks, and t...

Academia/Historiography/Japan

Japanese History Workshop, The University of Sydney, Dec. 5-7, 2007

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

I’m headed on Sunday to Sydney to take part in an annual workshop on Japanese history. This is my first opportunity to travel to Australia and I’m e...

Art/Diaspora/Japan/Museums/US-Japan

Giant Robot Exhibition

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

The Japanese American National Museum once again displays its amazing ability to hone in on topics of widespread interest while still staying true to its missio...

Japan/Web Sites

Calendar converter

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Some of you may know about this tool already, but I just discovered Matthias Schemm’s wonderful NengoCalc, an online or offline converter of Japanese and ...

Archaeology/Japan/Medieval/安土桃山

Update on Honnôji

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Professor Matthew Stavros of the University of Sydney (seen in the third photo below) wrote in response to my post on the discovery of roof tiles from Honnôji a...

Archaeology/Japan/安土桃山

Nobunaga’s death spot, Honnôji, discovered

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

Those of you who are, like me, interested in that brief era in the late 16th and early 17th centuries known as the Momoyama period (or the Azuchi-Momoyama perio...

Diaspora/Japan/Web Sites

Discover Nikkei

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

I’ve been working on a project with the Japanese American National Museum for my seminar “Japanophilia,” and have gotten to know their amazing...

Academia/Education/Japan/Teaching

The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 11 Comments

A friend who teaches American and sometimes Asian history courses sent me the following enquiry, which she received via email from one of her American history s...

General/Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan

Photos of Japan, 1951

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 13 Comments

One of my former students and her boyfriend have been scanning in old photos, and they happened upon some gems taken by the young man’s grandfather when h...

Cultural/Japan/US-Japan

Japanophilia

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 5 Comments

I am starting to work on my courses for next semester and am getting excited to teach one of my favorites: an upper-level seminar called “Japanophilia: Or...

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