Monthly Miscellany
The carnivals roll on: Nathanael Robinson hosted the last AHC, and did a very nice job. The next edition will be hosted by our very own Owen Miller in a week or...
Category: Japan
Japanophilia
I am starting to work on my courses for next semester and am getting excited to teach one of my favorites: an upper-level seminar called “Japanophilia: Or...
Remiss in my duties…. yours, too!
Mea maxima culpa. Due to a regrettable lack of focus on bloggerly things, I’ve let my carnival friends down. First, I never congratulated Roy Berman on a ...
Self-Immolation Tactics as Media Spin, Cultural Pretense and Strategic Initiative: Japanese and Jihadist Cases (A “companion reader” for Yuki Tanaka’s upcoming (Oct 10) Reischauer Institute lecture)
Next Monday (Oct 10), Professor Yuki Tanaka of the Hiroshima Peace Institute will be delivering a lecture at Harvard, under the auspices of the Reischauer Insti...
Frog in a Well nominated for best Asian group blog
Cool. Asia Blog Awards has nominated Frog in a Well for Best Asian Group Blog in a new edition run by AsiaPundit. Vote here!
Escaping the Binaries of Meiji Modernity
I gave a talk at the “Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan” symposium this past weekend at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. The sy...
AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
That 9.11 Incident
Of course I remember 9/11/01. You don’t forget the day when you think you’re watching a rerun of a terrible accident — how quickly they got fo...
Self-intro: M.G. Sheftall
Mina san, konnichiwa. My name is M.G. Sheftall. I’m an ex-pat NY’er (attended and Stuyvesant High School and Fordham University there) living in Jap...
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History Carnival #38
“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...
Miscellany
Heard on a Prairie Home Companion Joke Show: A couple goes to the theater, and afterwards the woman turns to the man and says “I don’t get Japanese ...
Sharing Syllabi: Japanese Women
I saw the immortals overlooking the volleyball court on our recent visit to the Kona side of the island, and felt an affinity. The Waikoloa Hilton is like that....
In Memorium: Edward Beauchamp
From the UH News: Professor Emeritus Edward Beauchamp died Aug. 8 at the age of 72. Beauchamp joined the College of Education in 1969 and was a valued faculty m...