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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...

Archives/English/Gender/Japan/Memory/War

The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace

Posted on July 16, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

Following KML’s post about the new museum on sexual slavery that is reported to open on August 1, found some links that I thought might deserve a separate...

English/Japanese/Memory/Politics/War/昭和

New Museum to Focus on Sexual Slavery

Posted on July 15, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 15 Comments

The Japan Times reports that there is to be a new museum, opening next month, which will focus on wartime sexual slavery. The museum is called “The Women&...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/War

Summer Reading Notes: Turnbull

Posted on July 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

After our discussion of the 1590s wars, I did pick up Stephen Turnbull’s Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War, 1592-1598. The book is a great read, ...

Books/China/Chinese/Civil War/English/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

7/7 and a Wartime Dictionary

Posted on July 7, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

While I’m spending the summer studying Korean in Seoul, one of the books I brought with me for some recreational reading is a Chinese wartime dictionary (...

English/Japan/Literature/Pedagogy/Religion

Oe and Millenarian Movements

Posted on July 7, 2005 by tak / 7 Comments

I have spent the last few days working on a syllabus for a course titled “Anthropology of Social Movements,” and I figure I could use some help from...

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...

China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Korea-Japan/Medieval/Memory/War

1590s Military Technology Gaps

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 20 Comments

I recently ran across two separate references to the Hideyoshi invasions of Korea, both of which credited Hideyoshi’s initial success to firearms. That di...

China/China-Russia/Diaspora/Economics/English/General/Labor/Post-Mao/Social History

ASPAC Notes: Demographics and States

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Historian of Empires Niall Ferguson [via Ralph Luker] recently wrote: Since 1989, the Russian mortality rate has risen from below 11 per 1,000 to more than 15 p...

Books/China/Economics/Education/English/General/Historiography/Post-Mao/Social History

One-Child Policy as History

Posted on June 22, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 10 Comments

I just finished teaching 20th century China, and the three biggest issues in the last section of the course were clearly economic growth, political liberalizati...

English/General/Japan

Self-Intro: Tak Watanabe

Posted on June 20, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

Hi, I’m Tak Watanabe, and I’ve just recently joined Frog in a Well. I am a cultural anthropologist who is keenly interested in the history of Japan....

Archaeology/English/General/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political

Information v. Imperium

Posted on June 16, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This week’s Japan Focus brings discussion of the past, present and future of the Japanese imperial institution. I’m particularly intrigued by the st...

China/Civil War/English/General/War

Chinese Civil War Mystery

Posted on June 11, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’ll do a China-relevant self-introduction later (you can read my Frog in a Well: Japan self-introduction, if you’re really curious) , but I just ra...

Academia/English/Web Sites

Frog in a Well – China Launches Today

Posted on June 8, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I’m happy to announce that today, the second of the Frog in a Well blogs, dedicated primarily to Chinese history, is officially launching and the more tha...