Getting Out the Vote
In the weeks leading up to May 10th, 1948, the United States run interim Military Government in southern Korea was busy preparing the national assembly election...
Author: K. M. Lawson
Autobiographical Essays by Donald Keene
Yomiuri newspaper published a long series of autobiographical essays by Donald Keene which I somehow missed until today. Professor Keene is one of the most impo...
2007: Japanese Works Now in the Public Domain
Matt over at No-Sword has listed and linked to a few Japanese authors who, due to the life+50 years copyright rule, now have all of their works released into th...
Democracy Quote of the Day
“We Communists always oppose a one-party dictatorship, and don’t approve of the Nationalists having a one-party dictatorship. The CCP certainly does...
Announcement: East Asian Libraries and Archives Wiki
The Frog in a Well project is expanding. While we hope our three bilingual collaborative weblogs dedicated to the study of East Asian history will continue to d...
Announcement: East Asian Libraries and Archives Wiki
The Frog in a Well project is expanding. While we hope our three bilingual collaborative weblogs dedicated to the study of East Asian history will continue to d...
Announcement: East Asian Libraries and Archives Wiki
The Frog in a Well project is expanding. While we hope our three bilingual collaborative weblogs dedicated to the study of East Asian history will continue to d...
Source: The China Provincial Atlas and Geography
This posting is the first of what I hope will become a more frequent kind of offering here at Frog in a Well. I’m not sure how it will go yet but I hope t...
Empire in Sonny Chiba’s Shōrinji Kempō
I just watched an old 1975 movie with Sonny Chiba in it called Shōrinji Kempō 少林寺拳法 (the English title, inexplicably is “The Killing Machine”) which...
The History of Sino-Japanese Relations as seen in Japan’s Most Popular Travel Guide
Over at Frog in a Well – China I have posted “The History of Sino-Japanese Relations as seen in Japan’s Most Popular Travel Guide” which exami...
The History of Sino-Japanese Relations as seen in Japan's Most Popular Travel Guide
The Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook, which is the official English name for 地球の歩き方 (Lit: The way to wander the world) is the most popular Japanese travel guide s...
Google Books: PDF Download Feature
The Google Books project is an exciting new chapter in the world’s digitization of printed materials together with the Gutenberg project. I have blogged a...
Google Books: PDF Download Feature
The Google Books project is an exciting new chapter in the world’s digitization of printed materials together with the Gutenberg project. I have blogged a...
Google Books: PDF Download Feature
The Google Books project is an exciting new chapter in the world’s digitization of printed materials together with the Gutenberg project. I have blogged a...
Asian History Carnival #6
Welcome to the sixth Asian History Carnival with some of the great blog postings related to Asian history from around the past month. China EastSouthWestNorth i...