Hanshin Jishin 10th anniversary
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. ...
Category: General
Post-war Japan Photo Exhibit
In a review of the New York art world’s year, the NYTimes reminded me of this exhibit of post-war Japanese photographs. Some interesting images, to be sur...
List of Intellectuals
I just finished making a little list of the various Japanese intellectuals mentioned in Victor Koschmann’s essay on “Intellectuals and Politics̶...
Movie: 2009 Lost Memories
I recently watched the 2001 Korean science fiction movie called 2009 Lost Memories (2009 로스트메모리즈, IMDB entry) w...
Back Online
After some four days of not knowing if anything would be restored, I’m happy to say Froginawell.net, which has been down since the morning of November 1st...
自己紹介: Thomas Ekholm
My name is Thomas Ekholm and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Göteborg (Gothenburg) University, Sweden. I have a masters degree in Japanese and equivalent of a...
Self Intro: Kim Youngsoo
はじめまして、ヨンスと申します。 皆さんは英語で書かれていますが、私は主に日本語でたまに英語で書くと思います。もし韓国に関することでしたら、韓国語でも書くつもりです。 簡単に自己紹介をします。 現在東京大学 総合文化研究科 地域文化研究に所属しています。今年は修士2年目なので、12月までは忙しいと思います。その後本格的...
Self-Introduction: Luck and Curiousity
My name is Jonathan Dresner, and I consider myself a very lucky man. I had no particular interest in Japan or history in High School, until I spent a year in Na...
Self Intro: Rod Wilson
I am a graduate student in East Asian history at Stanford University and since the fall of 2003 a research student with the Architecture Department at Hosei Uni...
The China History Group Blog
This is the new China history group blog at FrogInAWell.net. I’m in the process of putting together a great group of students/scholars of China’s history ...
Self Intro: K. M. Lawson
My name is Konrad Mitchell Lawson and later this month I will be starting a PhD in history in the United States. I am interested in issues related to treason, t...
Welcome to The Korea History Group Blog
Welcome to 우물 안 개구리, the newest addition to Frog in a Well. This new academic group blog is primarily focused on the study of the history of Korea, broadly defi...
The Japan History Group Blog
Welcome to the Japan History Group Blog, one of three history group blogs which will kick off the new “Frog in a Well” project. On this blog a group...