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Open Thread: Election Results

Posted on September 12, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Lots of folks are pretty sure that the success of Koizumi’s rejuvenated LDP in yesterday’s elections [here’s a good summary] means something. ...

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New Kamikaze Play

Posted on February 21, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

This month a play about kamikaze pilots has been running at the El Portal Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, and has received outstanding reviews. Titled “Ten ...

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Stumbling to Glory

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

When an antiquated and undemocratic regime falls quickly, those who follow it often do so with little firm idea what they want or how they will achieve it. Slog...

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Hanshin Jishin 10th anniversary

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

White Peril and Far Outliers have notes about the decade-ago disaster. We were in Yamaguchi when it happened: woke me out of a sound sleep from 200 miles away. ...

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Capital and Water: The Role of Rivers in Tokyo City Planning, 1880s-1940s

Posted on October 20, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

One of our weblog’s authors, Roderick Wilson, is giving a talk this Friday in Tokyo at the Modern Japanese History Workshop. Since Rod is one of us, I jus...

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The Japan Memory Project

Posted on October 17, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

Three visiting scholars (Sakakibara Sayoko, Roy Ron, and Wakabayashi Haruko) from the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute gave a talk this w...