Category: Art
History Carnival #38
“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...
Eloquent oddities
There aren’t a lot of good Japanese-themed quizzes out there…. You Are a Sarariiman! Or “salaryman.” Whatever. Treadmill off, treadmill ...
China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT
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...
Monumental Repatriation
A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monument was ...
Monumental Repatriation
A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monumen...
Overreading Erotica
There’s a lot of presentist fallacies and overdrawn conclusions — just because a society has a reputation for sexual restraint doesn’t mean th...
Finding Korea Related Images Online
There are lots of great places online to find images related to Korea. While I’m still looking for a good website which compiles links to some of the many...
Searching Boston Museum of Fine Arts
“The Humane Great Japanese Cross Medical Corps Tending to the Injured in the Russo-Japanese War” (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) The Boston Museum of F...
Jazz in Japan
Michael Molasky, who teaches at University of Minnesota and has published on Okinawa literature (this and this), has recently released a book in Japanese on the...
Updates: Textbook and Constitutional revision
The Tri-national textbook I wrote about here has been published. The South Koreans, at least, are taking it pretty seriously [via Ralph Luker], with national di...