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Category: Books and Articles

Books and Articles/English/Japan

A Cyberpunk-ish Tale of a Young Missing Historian

Posted on August 1, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

A Japan historian in a novel! The New York Times has a book review of The Method Actors by Carl Shuker. The review says: Shuker’s basic plot concerns the ...

Books and Articles/English/General/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/War/Web Sites

Recent Links

Posted on July 27, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

These all deserve separate posts, but here are some links I found in the last few days that I wanted to write about but didn’t have time for (perhaps othe...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval/Memory/War/江戸

Summer Reading Note: Ninja

Posted on July 20, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I’ve finished Stephen Turnbull’s Ninja: the True Story of Japan’s Secret Warrior Cult, and I have good news for current and prospective gradua...

Books and Articles/Film/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political/War

Article Nine on Film

Posted on July 19, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

Kei Yamamoto, writing for the citizen newspaper JANJAN, has reviewed the film Japan’s Peace Constitution (邦題 『映画 日本憲法』). The film is directed by John Junk...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/War

Summer Reading Notes: Turnbull

Posted on July 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

After our discussion of the 1590s wars, I did pick up Stephen Turnbull’s Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War, 1592-1598. The book is a great read, ...

Books and Articles/General/Japan/Japanese/Politics/明治

細谷千博、『シベリア出兵の史的研究』

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Kim Youngsoo / 0 Comment

We recently covered the book、『シベリア出兵の史的研究』(細谷千博、岩波現代文庫、2005) in my class. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the first class, so I’ll make some commen...

Books and Articles/English/Law/江戸

Stealing 9.99 ryō

Posted on March 28, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

In his new book on Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan, Daniel Botsman mentions that it became customary in the Edo period to report the theft of...

Books and Articles/English/Gender/明治

Women During the Meiji Restoration

Posted on February 20, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Someone might have made the astute observation that most of my entries are about works which one might read for orals preparation. That is because, I am reading...

Books and Articles/Gender/明治

First or Last Name

Posted on February 4, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

In her introduction to the excellent book The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration Anne Walthall notes that the Japanese histor...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Education/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics

Historiographical Triangulation

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

This could be good, or it could be awful. Or it might be a good first draft, but the effort certainly seems worth noting (emphasis added): A middle school histo...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Intellectual/International Affairs/Japan/Religion

Japan’s contribution to nihilistic Islamism

Posted on December 27, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The AHA’s flagship journal American Historical Review doesn’t run Japanese articles all that often and, to be honest, interesting ones even more rar...

Books and Articles/English

What If

Posted on November 27, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

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...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/English/Japan/Nationalism/War/昭和

Iris Chang’s Death

Posted on November 11, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Iris Chang is dead, apparently by her own hand as a result of depression. Her work on the Nanjing Massacre brought her fame and attention, of all kinds. She was...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Japan/Translation

Translation Prize and Gatekeeper Issues

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

A colleague of mine, Prof. Larry Rogers, just won the 2004 Keene Center translation award for his book of translations of modern stories about Tokyo neighborhoo...

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