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Category: 明治

Talks about the Meiji period.

Academia/bibliography/Books and Articles/Diaspora/English/General/Japan/Science and Technology/US-Japan/明治

Wonders of Modern Life

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I’m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of Japanese Diasporas, ジャパニーズデイアスポラ, 足立伸子 (編著), including my article ...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Translation/明治

Remembering Meiji: Translations

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Keene includes several extended reminiscences of Meiji published immediately after his death. Unfortunately, some are included in the original French (pp. 707 a...

Academia/Books and Articles/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy/Teaching/明治

Studying Keene’s Emperor Meiji

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

Much of my Meiji Japan course is taken up with Donald Keene’s Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852-1912. It’s been a pretty good experience, ...

Diaspora/Education/General/International Affairs/Japan/US-Japan/明治

Hawaiian Kanji

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

No, I’m not going to show you some cartoon of a spam musubi or a “remove your shoes” sign. This is, apparently, serious stuff: Educators worki...

Academia/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Marginalizing Discourses at ASPAC

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For the conclusion to my ASPAC blogging, I want to talk about the panel which invited me to serve as moderator. It was a pleasure, and not just because three of...

Cultural/Diaspora/English/General/Japan/Memory/photography/US-Japan/明治/昭和

Girls’ Day 2007, Hilo

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

The Hawai’i Japanese Center had an open house today for Girls’ Day, and I brought my camera. I didn’t make my 5-year old sit through the borin...

Academia/China-Japan/English/Japan/Pedagogy/Teaching/明治

Trying not to whine….

Posted on January 21, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

It’s syllabus time here at FrogInAWell. I’ve got a bit of an overload this semester, and I’m trying to be really good-humored about it, but I ...

Art/Education/English/General/Japan/Teaching/Web Sites/明治/江戸

Thanksgiving Vacation and Homework

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I went over to the Waikoloa Hilton. My son loves the boats and trams, and there’s nothing like watching dolphins ...

Japan/Teaching/明治

Escaping the Binaries of Meiji Modernity

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

I gave a talk at the “Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan” symposium this past weekend at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. The sy...

Academia/Art/China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Media/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Web Sites/明治

China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT

Posted on April 30, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/General/Japan/Literature/Media/US-Japan/明治

The Other Apprentice

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Lewis Libby, The Apprentice, Graywolf Press, St. Paul Minnesota, 1996. Libby’s novel has gotten more attention since his indictment, most of it bad. Howev...

Cultural/English/Gender/Japan/Literature/幕末/明治/江戸

Homosexuality in Japan: The Meiji Gap

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The effects of Meiji reforms on women have been pretty well documented: the continued legality of prostitution, including indenture; the consolidation of male p...

Archives/Cultural/English/General/Japan/Libraries/Web Sites/幕末/明治/江戸

On-line Japanese history resources

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

While looking for a supplement to the anemic textbook offerings on Tokugawa Japan (none of the stuff is out of copyright, probably, which is why it’s not ...

Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Politics/大正/明治

Semantics and History: Did Japan “Invade” Korea?

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Well, the obvious answer to that question is yes, but that’s not the invasion we’re talking about. Over on the Korea side, there’s a lively di...

Academia/Economic/English/General/Japan/幕末/明治

A Welcome Find

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

One of the very interesting things I discovered doing my dissertation was the relatively meager state of scholarship on Meiji era financial institutions, partic...

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