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Category: Cultural

Cultural history.

Books and Articles/Cultural/General/Japan/Literature/Popular Culture/幕末/明治

The Teahouse Fire: Painstaking

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

I don’t often get unsolicited books with handwritten notes from the authors, unless I worked with them in some way. What was even more surprising is that ...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Law/Medieval/Popular Culture/平成

Only in Japan: Yakuza Sued

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times is reporting on tensions between the Dojinkai and the civilians living in the neighborhood of their headquarters. Two features of this are wo...

Cultural/General

South Korea As Seen from Singapore: The “Korea Boom,” “Korea” Mobilized~

Posted on August 13, 2008 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

     I can’t resist adding this, my admittedly very superficial observations based on slightly more than two months of residence in Singapore: South Korea...

Colonial/Cultural/English/Korea/Korea-Japan/Seoul/Web Sites

Colonial Period School Architectural Archive

Posted on April 14, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Thanks to a posting at The Marmot’s Hole I learned about a project being undertaken by the National Archives to display a variety of information, archival...

Cultural/Education/Japan/大正

Controversy over the origins of the Japanese schoolgirl sailor uniform

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Nick Kapur / 3 Comments

For years private girls academy Fukuoka Jogakuin in Kyushu has been credited with first introducing in 1921 the famous sailor-style uniform worn by so many midd...

China-Japan/Cultural/Diaspora/Historiography/Japan/Memory/War

Reminder to self: Complicating History

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

This is an old-fashioned web-log post: links that I don’t want to lose in the ether or the depths of my Eudora folders. Both are from Japan Focus, and bot...

Cultural/English/Film/Historiography/Japan/Literature/Pedagogy/Translation/大正

Akutagawa the Pacifist

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Japan Focus has expanded its mission one more time, this time to include new literary translations! They’ve published a Jay Rubin translation of an Akutag...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/Drama/Food/Japan/US-Japan/江戸

Oh Tempura, Oh Mores!

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times has been on a Japanese culture kick this week which I just couldn’t let pass without note. There have been not one, but two articles in...

Books and Articles/Contemporary/Cultural/Historiography/Korea/Literature

History ‘faction’

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

According to the Hankyoreh, historical novels are all the rage at the moment in Korea. This doesn’t really surprise me all that much as historical novels ...

Academia/Cultural/Historiography/Popular Culture

Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home?

Posted on April 9, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 7 Comments

[A version of this piece was published on Japan Focus (April 4, 2007)] Baseball fans, lovers of a good fight, and those who are curious about how we go about un...

Books and Articles/Cultural/General/Korea/Memory/Nationalism

Unity is Almost Always a Myth

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

In an otherwise interesting discussion of North Korean defector readjustment and North-South relations in the Washington Post, Samuel Songhoon Lee drops this In...

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

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/General/Japan/US-Japan

Origami Revolution

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I can’t recommend highly enough Susan Orleans’ profile of Origamist Robert Lang, in which she describes not only his groundbreaking technical and ar...

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/Cultural/General/Japan/Translation

Japanese Culture is global culture

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

A lot of elements of Japanese culture have become part of the great global mash-up, especially food culture and pop culture. But none, I think, will have the en...

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