Category: Japan
Satire, self-parody and court jesters
I was looking for a good way to announce my new position as a member of the Carnival of Bad History team, when Geoff Wade sent this to H-Asia, and Prof. Goodman...
Graduate programs in Japan to be modernized?
The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that graduate programs in Japan will be modernized (NOTE: link may require subscription) through a “a five-...
Tombs on Tuesday
Apparently, failure to follow sterile work protocols have resulted in damaging molds in the Takamatsuzaka tomb. I don’t understand why, in situations like...
China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...
Introduction
Greetings, and thanks to Konrad for inviting me to join. I’m a historian of Japan. I received my Ph.D. in 2001 and now teach in the Asian Studies departme...
Read the Bones
Forensic anthropologists who got a look at the earliest known human remains found in North America think he looks Ainu rather than Native American. Some Ainu’s ...
The Return of Uwano Ishinosuke
Japanese World War II military stragglers are still showing up on the newswires six decades after the end of the conflict. This past week, Japan has been capti...
The Other Apprentice
Lewis Libby, The Apprentice, Graywolf Press, St. Paul Minnesota, 1996. Libby’s novel has gotten more attention since his indictment, most of it bad. Howev...
Our Future, more or less
The head of the Japan Foundation (to whom I, like so many, owe thanks) has made some comments on the state and future of Japan Studies. It’s his job, afte...
はじめまして
皆さん、はじめまして。斉川貴嗣（Saikawa Takashi）と申します。 ずいぶん前にローソンさんからこのブログへお誘いいただいていたのですが、ここ１、2ヶ月忙しくしておりましたので書き込みが遅れました。これからは積極的に参加していきたいと思いますので、どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。 まずは簡単な自己紹介。現在、...
Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories
Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T’ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History ser...
Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories
Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T’ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History ser...
Monumental Repatriation
A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monumen...