Category: Japan
Another Nail in the Ninja Coffin
In response to a query on the H-Japan list, samurai historian par excellance Karl Friday wrote: There are basically no publications in English on ninja worth re...
Revision and Revisionism
Deep in the middle of a roundtable about constitutional revision and neo-nationalism in Japan, comes a bit of discussion of historical revision and popular beli...
Murakami Rocks!
I didn’t even know it was out, but Murakami Haruki’s latest novel, in English translation, is on the New York Times’ Top Ten Books of 2005 Lis...
Semantics and History: Did Japan “Invade” Korea?
Well, the obvious answer to that question is yes, but that’s not the invasion we’re talking about. Over on the Korea side, there’s a lively di...
“The Apprentice”
I recently learned [29 October 2005 show, round 3] that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, recently indicted for his role in, at the very least, the coverup ...
My Tradition’s Bigger Than Your Tradition
In an argument about Japanese-American draft-resistor internees during WWII, Eric Muller wrote in my book I argue that vocal and visible protest of government o...
Boundaries within Asia
Interesting article on the problem understanding Central Asia: the first problem is that nobody agrees on what or where it is. Apparently, East Asianists —...
Asian History Carnival #1
Welcome to the first Asian History Carnival! The deadline for submissions was 10/10, which just happened, this year, to fall on the holiday of Columbus Day (obs...
Enryo shinaide….
Last call: The inaugural Carnival of Asian History Blogging will go up tomorrow! Send me [dresner at hawaii dot edu] your best, your friends’ best, your b...
Russo-Japanese War Re-visited
I fortuitously caught the last twenty minutes or so of a panel discussion titled “The Meaning of the Russo-Japanese War Today” on NHK Kyoiku Televis...