Love and Inspiration
My aunt, Alice Schlossberg, passed away on Sunday. She was the first Asianist and history teacher in my family, and I will miss her terribly. Perhaps my first r...
Category: English
Someone’s class project….
Apparently, some English class at a Japanese university is exploring the Anglophone Blogosphere in search of pen pals and practice. (This is the closest thing t...
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...
Asking Stupid Questions… so you don't have to
My father, in his brief teaching career, used to say to his students “If you have a question, you have to ask it. Odds are good that other people have the...
Google Books: PDF Download Feature
The Google Books project is an exciting new chapter in the world’s digitization of printed materials together with the Gutenberg project. I have blogged a...
Google Books: PDF Download Feature
The Google Books project is an exciting new chapter in the world’s digitization of printed materials together with the Gutenberg project. I have blogged a...
Google Books: PDF Download Feature
The Google Books project is an exciting new chapter in the world’s digitization of printed materials together with the Gutenberg project. I have blogged a...
That 9.11 Incident
Of course I remember 9/11/01. You don’t forget the day when you think you’re watching a rerun of a terrible accident — how quickly they got fo...
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History Carnival #38
“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...
Miscellany
Via HNN It’s a 270-year old antique building! It’s a brothel! Monument or Disgrace? Neolithic astronomy: Big Dipper in ancient stone. Paper Producti...
Miscellany
Heard on a Prairie Home Companion Joke Show: A couple goes to the theater, and afterwards the woman turns to the man and says “I don’t get Japanese ...
Sharing Syllabi: Japanese Women
I saw the immortals overlooking the volleyball court on our recent visit to the Kona side of the island, and felt an affinity. The Waikoloa Hilton is like that....
English craze as a modern Korean tradition
Even having seen for around 15 years how one’s ability to follow the CNN anchors’ pronounciation habits functions in South Korea as the modern equiv...