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Cultural history.

Cultural/English/Memory/昭和

Nostalgia and Representations of Asia in Japan

Posted on July 31, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

Last year I wrote an article entitled Losing the Soul of Japan which was posted on the excellent weblog Chanpon. In the article I made some comments on the topi...

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...

Cultural/Education/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Nationalism/大正

Dewey In Japan

Posted on July 6, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Naoko Saito takes John Dewey’s visits to Japan as a starting place for questions about “Education for Global Understanding” [registration requ...

Academia/Cultural/English/General/Japan

Possible Research Topic: Women’s Sumo

Posted on June 29, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Japundit reports on his attempt to fact-check a Kyodo news story on sumo wrestling by women. Based on his results, this is a subject crying out for authoritativ...

Cultural/General/Japan/Japanese/大正/明治

Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments

Posted on May 18, 2005 by craig / 28 Comments

This posting is the introduction to a work in progress, sans footnotes, references, and italics. Like me, its akward and verbose, for which I apologize. I'm pos...

Academia/Art/Cultural/Education/English/General/Japan/Medieval/幕末

Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading over Fukuzawa’s Autobiography for class, I ran across a nice passage: However much we studied, our work and knowldge had practically no connection...

Cultural/English/Intellectual/Japan/江戸

Renaissance Japan

Posted on March 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Epochal analogies are some of the trickiest traps in our historical discourse. Whether it’s the Medieval v. Feudal snake pit or the quicksand of finely gr...

China-Japan/Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval/Religion

The Gateless Gate Online

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Here is the gateway to The Gateless Gate. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. But it’s a real treasure of a document, and a very nicely done site. Granted, mu...

Cultural/English/General/Japan/幕末

Sondheim’s Perry?

Posted on December 2, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I had no idea: Stephen Sondheim (yes, I’m one of his many fans) wrote a musical about the arrival of Commodore Perry called Pacific Overtures. There’...

Cultural/Economic/English/Japan/Nationalism/Science and Technology/明治

Farewell, Soseki

Posted on November 10, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m going to miss Natsume Soseki. I know, he’s been dead for a long time (are there any plans in the works for centennial editions or celebrations, ...

Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval

Why I love classical literature

Posted on October 27, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

From Yoshida Kenkō’s Tsurezuregusa, aka Essays in Idleness (Stephen Carter translation in McCullough’s Classical Japanese Prose, p. 416) 189 Today y...

Cultural/Japan/Nationalism/Science and Technology

Japanese Pride and Influence

Posted on October 5, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

If you’ve studied Japan for even a few years, it becomes clear that Japanese are very sensitive about Nobel prizes. They haven’t won a lot of them, ...

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