7/7 and a Wartime Dictionary
While I’m spending the summer studying Korean in Seoul, one of the books I brought with me for some recreational reading is a Chinese wartime dictionary (...
Author: K. M. Lawson
Frog in a Well – China Launches Today
I’m happy to announce that today, the second of the Frog in a Well blogs, dedicated primarily to Chinese history, is officially launching and the more tha...
井底之蛙 Site Launch
Welcome to 井底之蛙, the newest addition to Frog in a Well. This new academic group blog is primarily focused on the study of the history of China, broadly defined,...
Self-Intro: K. M. Lawson
My name is Konrad Mitchell Lawson. I have recently finished my first year of a PhD in history and I am currently spending the summer in Seoul to work on my Kore...
Sasakawa Money
Antti Leppänen has written about the controversy in Korea over Yonsei’s acceptance of money from the Sasakawa Foundation. See Hankyoreh’s english ed...
Savage Minds
Just wanted to mention that there is a new academic group blog in town dedicated to Anthropology. Like Frog in a Well, Savage Minds is maintained by a number of...
More Former Japanese Soldiers
There has been some news in the last two days about the possibility that two more Japanese soldiers left behind in the Philippines being “discovered”...
Stealing 9.99 ryō
In his new book on Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan, Daniel Botsman mentions that it became customary in the Edo period to report the theft of...
The Frog in a Well – Japan Librarian
I have an exciting piece of news to share. I am pleased to announce that we have a new and distinguished addition to our list of authors at Frog in a Well ̵...
H-Japan: Some Recent Postings
Just passing on some links from the H-Japan discussion list. Yone Sugita has reviewed Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolon...
History Mini-Sites
I’m sure I’m not the only one who, as I read some interesting history in one of those paper-inscribed book-things, wonder if information about the h...
More On Event Names
Nick’s posting about Japanese and English names for historical events prompted and interesting exchange in the comments. Thomas Ekholm noted that in Kenne...
Women During the Meiji Restoration
Someone might have made the astute observation that most of my entries are about works which one might read for orals preparation. That is because, I am reading...
Social Management
Sheldon Garon’s delightful book Molding Japanese Minds outlines how the Japanese state has entered the everyday life of its citizens. He focuses on what h...
First or Last Name
In her introduction to the excellent book The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration Anne Walthall notes that the Japanese histor...