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Author: K. M. Lawson
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...
The Japan Memory Project
Three visiting scholars (Sakakibara Sayoko, Roy Ron, and Wakabayashi Haruko) from the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute gave a talk this w...
Temporary Suspension of “The Country is Burning”
A comic series tracking the life of a bureaucrat in early Showa Japan has been suspended because of its September 16th and 22nd editions that contained descript...
A Parliamentarian’s Weapon of Choice
I am afraid that most of my postings for the foreseeable future will be snippets from the basic readings on modern Japanese history that are taking up much of m...
The China History Group Blog
This is the new China history group blog at FrogInAWell.net. I’m in the process of putting together a great group of students/scholars of China’s history ...
Self Intro: K. M. Lawson
My name is Konrad Mitchell Lawson and later this month I will be starting a PhD in history in the United States. I am interested in issues related to treason, t...