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Trump Promotes Chinese Food: Egg roll on White House Lawn

Posted on April 23, 2017 by C. W. Hayford / 1 Comment

      In an unusual move, last Monday the White House lawn was given over to egg rolls. The Italian Ambassador contributed to the moment by bringing “ciao mein....

General/Qing/World/明治

Lagging

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Mohammad Fadel, in Islamic Monthly (h/t Naheed Mustafa) chides critics of Islam who take contemporary Western ideals of egalitarianism and personal freedom as t...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

Atrocities/Contemporary/Diaspora/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Korea

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 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...

Colonial/General/Historiography/Korea

Some Issues on Modern Education in Korea

Posted on November 9, 2011 by sayaka / 1 Comment

Education is always an important issue in history, and I regret that I have read works on the history of Korea’s modern education only sporadically. As I ...

Academia/Blog Carnival/General/Japan/Web Sites

Twitterstorian Anniversary

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

As an historian, I consider anniversaries irrelevant. However, as a social function, naturally, they matter a great deal, and the internet itself moves so quick...

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...

General

The Kempeitai studies Anthropology

Posted on June 7, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Our friends at Savage Minds often post on issues related to anthropologists at war. Today I came across an example of an anthropologist at war in a 1942 diary b...

1970s/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Nuclear Power in Korea / Domestic and International

Posted on March 17, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 2 Comments

Just a quick note, even as the Japan situation continues to unfold, to recall that (1) the current ROK government wants to prioritize nuclear exports in the com...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/General/Japan

Announcements and Encouragements

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

While the discussions on the Asia lists have been a bit wooden for a while, other H-Net communities are lively and thriving, and the book reviews are a fantasti...

General

Shipping Designators for Japanese Cities

Posted on November 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

There are two creative processes that I find particular mysterious. Coming up with the names for musical bands…and shipping designators. Here for example,...

Colonial/General/Korea/Korea-Japan

The Use of Collective Responsibility

Posted on September 19, 2010 by sayaka / 2 Comments

It is a famous fact that the Government-General in Taiwan adopted the baojia (保甲) system in 1898 in reaction to a series of attacks against the Japanese. It is ...

General

Goto Shimpei’s Meta Theory on Modern Empire

Posted on September 7, 2010 by sayaka / 0 Comment

I feel that, from what I have read so far, Goto Shimpei is everyone’s favorite colonial policy-maker. He learned ‘scientific’ colonial governa...

General

Self-Introduction: Kate McDonald

Posted on July 11, 2010 by kate / 3 Comments

Hi everybody. My name is Kate McDonald, and I’m the newest contributor to Frog in a Well. I’m currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese History at the...

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