Taiwan gained and lost
Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT’s Emma J. Teng’s Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895 up this wee...
Category: China-Japan
Reflecting on a semester
We’ve been talking about our syllabi for a while here at the Frogs, but we haven’t done a lot of post-semester commentary. I had two Asia courses th...
Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan/War/昭和
What’s New?
The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Center for Japanese Studies has a new collection of Occupation-era photographs. I’m struck by two things in parti...
Archaeology/Blog Carnival/China-Japan/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Korea-Japan/Occupation/US-Japan/War/Web Sites/昭和
Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/China-U.S./Current Events/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qing/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources
Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Who lives in a Pineapple under the Sea of Japan…?
From Inside Asia I learn that China has created regulations to increase the number of domestic cartoons shown in China. This is a fairly standard bit of cultura...
Sino-Japanese Studies Journal Online
I am happy to announce the completion of a project that I have been working on in my spare time for about a month now: the digitization of the Sino-Japanese Stu...
Sino-Japanese Studies Journal Online
I am happy to announce the completion of a project that I have been working on in my spare time for about a month now: the digitization of the Sino-Japanese Stu...
Some China News
The 11th Asian History Carnival is up, and the next host will be this blog’s own Alan Baumler! In spite of new evidence regarding Japanese war crimes, a J...
Some Japan News
Japanese Culture Minister offended though whether it was by the quality of the sushi or by the fact that it shared the menu with Korean food is unclear. Japanes...
Trying not to whine….
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 ...
Grading Finished; Blogging Resumes
She really has no conviction to her writing. It seemed merely argumentative and she was just trying to prove her points through facts. That’s alright to m...
Empire in Sonny Chiba’s Shōrinji Kempō
I just watched an old 1975 movie with Sonny Chiba in it called Shōrinji Kempō 少林寺拳法 (the English title, inexplicably is “The Killing Machine”) which...
The History of Sino-Japanese Relations as seen in Japan's Most Popular Travel Guide
The Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook, which is the official English name for 地球の歩き方 (Lit: The way to wander the world) is the most popular Japanese travel guide s...
No need for Clever Speech
It is recorded in the Han chronicles that when Emperor Wen visited his pleasure park he went to the area called Tiger Garden. There he questioned the official i...