Pigs
How many pigs were there in China during the warlord era? I came across the wonderful site Strange Maps, and one of their offerings was a 1922 map of world hog ...
Category: Japan
So long, it’s been good to know ya’
The AHA Annual meeting is over, and I’m packing up to go home. I have some Japan panels left to blog, as well as some Islamic history ones. There’s ...
Imperial Tombs Finally Opened to Archaeologists…Sorta
It was quietly announced this week that researchers would be allowed to examine 11 ancient Japanese tombs, said to be the final resting places of Japan’s ...
Alan Baumler: Best History Blog Writer, 2006
It’s official: Best Writer: Alan Baumler at Frog in a Well Of all the nominations, the judges felt that Alan Baumler’s writing for Frog in a Well is...
The Wall Is Great!
One of these days we’re all going to get tired of Great Wall metaphors for China…. I hope. For now, it’s being over-visited by tourists and st...
Grading Finished; Blogging Resumes
She really has no conviction to her writing. It seemed merely argumentative and she was just trying to prove her points through facts. That’s alright to m...
“D-Mat” and the whole “blood type/temperament” thing…
Wondering if anyone else on FIAW has seen this article by David Picker in the NYT about Matsuzaka Daisuke’s blood type… I don’t think Picker h...
AHC #10 is up
Gracchi at Westminster Wisdom has put together a fantastic 10th AHC. The material ranges from the Russian Near East to Japan, Mongolia to India, and closes out ...
Pearl Harbor and the longue duree
In honor of the 65th anniversary, HNN has a Pearl Harbor extravaganza this week. There’s a little recap, and the obligatory zombie error smackdown, which ...
The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching
A friend who teaches American and sometimes Asian history courses sent me the following enquiry, which she received via email from one of her American history s...
Photos of Japan, 1951
One of my former students and her boyfriend have been scanning in old photos, and they happened upon some gems taken by the young man’s grandfather when h...
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...
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...