Japanese War Related Survey and its Results
Sasaki Kei, one of our contributors at the Japanese history blog here at Frog in a Well pointed out some results of a survey recently released in the Japanese p...
Author: K. M. Lawson
The Korean Folk Village
A few days ago I visited the Korean Folk Village near Suwŏn. You can learn all about the village from the English version of its propaganda video, complete with...
Asian History Carnival #4
Big thanks to Katrina for putting together our fourth Asian history carnival. You can find it at Miscellany.
Asian History Carnival #4
Big thanks to Katrina for putting together our fourth Asian history carnival. You can find it at Miscellany.
To Stab a Historian
I have been compiling notes and comparing various narratives of modern Japanese history in preparation for my orals. It is easy to lose touch with the bigger pi...
North Korea in the Encyclopedia of World History
I recently ordered a very reasonably priced used copy of The Encyclopedia of World History, now edited by Peter N. Stearns but based on many earlier editions by...
Kyushu and Okinawa Studies Online Symposium
I just got an email from Steve from Kostudies.com announcing their first online symposium complete with academic contributors. Here is more from the announcemen...
Review of Timothy Brook's Collaboration
In the most recent issue of The Journal of Asian Studies there is a review of Timothy Brook‘s new work Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in ...
Recent Downtime
I want to apologize for the recent few days of instable contact with Frog in a Well and some downtime. I’ll expand this post with more of an explanation l...
Recent Downtime
I want to apologize for the recent few days of instable contact with Frog in a Well and some downtime. I’ll expand this post with more of an explanation l...
Recent Downtime
I want to apologize for the recent few days of instable contact with Frog in a Well and some downtime. I’ll expand this post with more of an explanation l...
Supply Drops for Prisoners of War
The Japanese emperor’s famous surrender announcement came at noon on August 15th, 1945. However, for Korea (and Manchuria) the date is of limited use, des...
Symposium Commemorating the Completion of the Occupation Period Magazine Article Database
The Prange Archive online magazine article database for the occupation period was an absolutely essential tool for me in my most recent research project. If you...
The Case of Taiwa Shinron
In addition to preparing for my oral exams, the most significant project I have been working on recently involves research on the early US occupation period in ...
Other Well-dwellers
Some years ago while studying in Beijing I bought a good number of nicely bound hardback volumes from a series entitled the “Library of Chinese Classics&#...