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Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

1980s/Current/Recent Events/East vs West/Economic/Economics/Japan/US-Japan

President Trump’s Historical Consciousness: Bowling Ball Edition

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Trump, at a recent event, recycled an old chestnut I haven’t heard in years He accused Japan of using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto companies acces...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

Anecdotes/Contemporary/Current Events/Current/Recent Events

Internet Culture and Rough Music

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Not really a post, but more of an idea. I ran across this, about victims of the alleged Las Vegas  shooting who are being harassed on-line. I say alleged, becau...

Current/Recent Events/Education

Going to college in China and the U.S.

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via Facebook, (somehow) I found this Chinese parents sleep in “tents of love” outside their college kids’ dorms to make the goodbyes easier Th...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Current/Recent Events/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War

Leave WWII out of it, OK?

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There are good reasons to bring Japan into the gun control debate in the United States: the relative success of firearms regulation in Japan, the recent rise of...

Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/昭和

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Food/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/Memory/Nationalism

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Japan Times article on Japan’s application to UNESCO to have 和食 [washoku, Japanese cuisine] declared an internationally recognized “intangible c...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Education/Historiography/Japan

History Carnival CVI (December 2011-January 2012)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Welcome to the 106th Roundup of History Blogging, a double-sized edition. Fortunately, being a blog, we never really run out of space. First, the two biggest ev...

Academia/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/平成

Old Myths, New Myths: Problems of Informed Punditry

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The Asia/Pacific Journal, aka Japan Focus, has a fascinating interview with Heinrich Reinfried, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University St. Gall...

Academia/Books and Articles/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/昭和

Feeling Like an Empire: Colonial Radicalization

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

What makes Louise Young’s Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism such a fascinating, troubling work is that she deta...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Media/US-Japan

History as it happens

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Though I’m usually not shy about speaking historically when big events happen, I’ve been very reticent on the Tohoku disasters. As others have point...

Books and Articles/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/General/Japan/photography

AAS Love – Self Promotion Edition

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s a good week for me and the Association for Asian Studies. I just got my Journal of Asian Studies in the mail. Not only did I get the journal, but

Academia/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Science and Technology

History Carnival #84: After the Tweeting is Done

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I’m very pleased to be hosting my 6th History Carnival, and I thought it would be fun to extend the carnival into a new medium this time: I’ve spent...

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