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Category: Cultural

Cultural history.

Academia/Cultural/Gender/Japan/Media/Memory/Nationalism/Okinawa/大正/昭和

AHA Blogging Day One: Between Naps

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

They call it a “red eye flight” for a reason. I really hope that none of the panelists at “Unstable Bodies, Unsettled Movements: Sport, Perfor...

Cultural/Japan/US-Japan

Japanophilia

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 5 Comments

I am starting to work on my courses for next semester and am getting excited to teach one of my favorites: an upper-level seminar called “Japanophilia: Or...

Contemporary/Cultural/Korea/Late Chosŏn

If you thought the Chosŏn dynasty was over, think again

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

Actually, strictly speaking, 88-year-old Yi Hae-won was crowned queen (or should that be empress?) of the Great Han Empire (大韓帝國) last week, rather than the Cho...

Academia/China-Japan/Cultural/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/War

Defining Japaneseness: a miscellany

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This report (with followups here) suggests that Japan is no longer a “classless society” but I wonder to what extent the concept of class simply to ...

Art/Cultural/General/Japan/Translation

Eloquent oddities

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There aren’t a lot of good Japanese-themed quizzes out there…. You Are a Sarariiman! Or “salaryman.” Whatever. Treadmill off, treadmill ...

Archaeology/Colonial/Cultural/English/General/Korea/Koryŏ/US-Korea/Web Sites

Finding historical riches

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

A few items from the news, blogs, etc. The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection at the Korean Heritage Library, part of the USC digital image collect...

Cultural/Film/Koguryo/Korea/Media/Nationalism

Koguryŏ on the box

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Owen / 6 Comments

I know I’m way behind the times on this subject as it was already brought up at the Marmot’s Hole weeks ago, but I’d like to put out a call fo...

Cultural/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

The Korean Folk Village

Posted on July 2, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

A few days ago I visited the Korean Folk Village near Suwŏn. You can learn all about the village from the English version of its propaganda video, complete with...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/General/Japan/Literature/Memory/Pedagogy/昭和/江戸

Laughter and Tears on the Charles

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

A book I’ve been waiting for for a long time is finally almost out [PDF]. Adam Kern, an old friend from graduate school, has been working on Edo-period hu...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Cultural/Korea/Korea-Japan

Hankyoreh on the return of cultural artifacts

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

Update: Korea Times reports on another long-running dispute over the return of historical documents taken from Korea – in this case those taken from the O...

1970s/Cultural/Korea/Law

The Marijuana Crisis of ’75

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

I’ve been dipping into an excellent book on the history of Korean popular music now and then (이혜숙 & 손우석 – 한국대중음악사) and came across a fascinatin...

Archaeology/Cultural/English/General/Japan/Memory

Tombs on Tuesday

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Apparently, failure to follow sterile work protocols have resulted in damaging molds in the Takamatsuzaka tomb. I don’t understand why, in situations like...

Academia/Cultural/Events/Japan/US-Japan

Japanese diaspora

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

This past weekend I was a discussant at a graduate student conference at UCLA, sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies. The title (a bit wordy for my taste...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/General/Japan/Literature/Media/US-Japan/明治

The Other Apprentice

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Lewis Libby, The Apprentice, Graywolf Press, St. Paul Minnesota, 1996. Libby’s novel has gotten more attention since his indictment, most of it bad. Howev...

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

Our Future, more or less

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The head of the Japan Foundation (to whom I, like so many, owe thanks) has made some comments on the state and future of Japan Studies. It’s his job, afte...

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