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Category: 明治

Talks about the Meiji period.

Anecdotes/Film/明治

Delayed Reaction, or, I get mail.

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

In response to my review of The Last Samurai movie, I got the following email yesterday: The text reads: Message From: your mom Message: I read your review of &...

Culture/martial arts/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Pedagogy/大正/明治/昭和

Reading Note: Oleg Benesch, “Inventing the way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan”

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Before I praise Benesch’s book, a complaint: Oxford UP pricing is absurd. Now that’s not unusual for academic hardbacks, monographs that go to libra...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

General/Qing/World/明治

Lagging

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Mohammad Fadel, in Islamic Monthly (h/t Naheed Mustafa) chides critics of Islam who take contemporary Western ideals of egalitarianism and personal freedom as t...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

China-Japan/Colonial Taiwan/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/War/明治/昭和

Senkaku Islands: New Sources, New Clarity?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about Japan’s relationship with t...

Academia/Anecdotes/Books and Articles/English/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/War/明治/江戸

Seppuku: A Samurai Suicide Miscellany

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For a little entertainment this Thanksgiving, I read Andrew Rankin’s Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide (Kodansha, 2011).1 Since I’m teaching bot...

Books and Articles/明治

Update: Japanese to the Rescue

Posted on May 18, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

In April I made a short posting about an interesting work of fiction from 1907, called Death Trap by R. W. Cole1 that depicts a future German invasion of Britai...

Academia/Diaspora/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/明治

AAS 2010: Annexation Centennial

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Final exams crash onto my desk tomorrow, but I’m as organized as I can be in advance, so I thought I’d do a little belated AAS blogging, especially ...

明治

Some Good Old Treaty Port Humor

Posted on March 19, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I found this gem in a June 21, 1900 Washington Post article: It is a cute, and surely manufactured story, but it does get at something I have wondered about: di...

Academia/China-Japan/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/US-Japan/War/大正/明治

TR’s legacy for FDR: Japanese Aggression?

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I really didn’t want to get into the discussion about James Bradley’s op-ed and interview because it’s finals season, and because the argument...

Current/Recent Events/International Affairs/Japan/Occupation/US-Japan/明治/昭和/江戸

The Bow

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 9 Comments

Via my old friend Scott Eric Kaufman I learned that President Obama’s visit to Japan was drawing criticism from the American right (I also learned that Pr...

Academia/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/General/Historiography/Japan/War/明治

World War Wannabee: Russo-Japanese War?

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Brett Holman notes a new contender in the “really First World War” sweepstakes — the Seven Years War and Napoleonic Wars being leading early c...

Books and Articles/Cultural/General/Japan/Literature/Popular Culture/幕末/明治

The Teahouse Fire: Painstaking

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

I don’t often get unsolicited books with handwritten notes from the authors, unless I worked with them in some way. What was even more surprising is that ...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/Historiography/Japan/Law/Nationalism/US-Japan/大正/明治/昭和

Migration, Nationalism, Empire

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s recent Japan Focus article, “Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empi...

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