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Category: 昭和

Talks about the Showa period

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Asian American/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Public History/US-Japan/昭和

Immigrant Panics, then and now.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s not all that much to add to George Takei’s devastating response to Roanoke Mayor David Bowen’s attempt to rationalize refusing Syrian ...

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...

English/Foreign Views/Military/Science / Technology/US-Japan/War/昭和

Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...

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/Japan/Memory/War/昭和

Japanese Counter-Insurgency: Strategy or Tactic?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Robert Farley’s article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and implementation begs the question of whether COIN, as it’s called now, ...

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...

Foreign Views/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

Atomic Bomb Symposium at Federation of American Scientists

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s almost no new historical content here, aside from some biographical ruminations. Stanley Kutler’s, reprinted at HNN, is the most historicall...

Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/昭和

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

Historiography/Japan/US-Japan/War/昭和

Real History, alternate possibilities: Nuclear Weapons Edition

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Not much of a post, given the nature of my frenetic academic life these days, but Alex Wellerstein’s post at Nuclear Secrecy raises fascinating question a...

Events/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

SHAFR Roundtable on Pearl Harbor (Plus HNN Bonus Article)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbor, the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations has published a ser...

Academia/Books and Articles/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/昭和

Feeling Like an Empire: Colonial Radicalization

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

What makes Louise Young’s Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism such a fascinating, troubling work is that she deta...

Occupation/US-Japan/昭和

The Hicswa Court-martial: a Double Murder in Nara, 1945

Posted on February 9, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

The US occupation of Japan after World War II was not, relatively speaking, a violent one and though the behavior of occupation troops in Japan did lead to many...

Economic/Propaganda/昭和

When desperate to stabilize the currency

Posted on December 17, 2010 by sayaka / 2 Comments

I encountered these pages when I was flipping through a thick, unsorted bunch of materials regarding the industrial campaigns that the youth associations conduc...

Archives/English/Events/Foreign Views/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

December 7, 1941, Pittsburg, Kansas

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

One of our graduate assistants came in recently with an old newspaper that her husband had found on a deconstruction job. Considering that it was, apparently, s...

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