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...
Author: K. M. Lawson
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...
Comment Moderation
Hello everyone. Just a quick note to say that comment moderation has been turned on so your comments won’t appear immediately. They will get posted after ...
Japanese Historical Maps
I have been going through the H-Japan messages from the last few months, trying to get caught up with my mailing list subscriptions. One wonderful website menti...
List of Intellectuals
I just finished making a little list of the various Japanese intellectuals mentioned in Victor Koschmann’s essay on “Intellectuals and Politics̶...
Movie: 2009 Lost Memories
I recently watched the 2001 Korean science fiction movie called 2009 Lost Memories (2009 로스트메모리즈, IMDB entry) w...
What If
Jonathan Dresner, our most active member here at Frog in a Well has an interesting posting at Cliopatria on the 1000 top OCLC library books by purchase. Dresner...
Faith and Foreign Policy
There is lots of talk about the importance of faith and the use of religious or crusader vocabulary in the US president’s justification of his foreign pol...
Back Online
After some four days of not knowing if anything would be restored, I’m happy to say Froginawell.net, which has been down since the morning of November 1st...
Capital and Water: The Role of Rivers in Tokyo City Planning, 1880s-1940s
One of our weblog’s authors, Roderick Wilson, is giving a talk this Friday in Tokyo at the Modern Japanese History Workshop. Since Rod is one of us, I jus...
Halting Speeches
I will continue to post the odd passage I find here and there during my reading that I find particularly memorable. In Andrew Gordon‘s Labor and Imperial ...
Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms
The presentation I attended on the Japan Memory Project which I covered in my last posting also discussed another part of their institute’s online efforts...