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Category: Japan

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Heroes and big swords in Shanghai

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The 1932 Shanghai War produced its share of heroes, since any war needs heroes, both for domestic and foreign consumption. I just found two stories of a Chinese...

Japan

Teaching in Japan

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

So, we are getting into the late middle of the Fall semester here in North America. If you are finding the whole teaching thing is getting you down, here is som...

Art/Japan/Social History/Teaching/visual culture

Pictures of Japan

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Do you teach about Japan? If so you might want to check out the Toshidma Gallery. Teaching is always better with pictures, and if you do Japan you are probably ...

Books and Articles/Food/Japan/Nationalism

Science, Social Science, and Pseudoscience of Diet/Culture Thesis

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Eminent food historian Rachel Laudan alerted me recently to the existence of new scholarship, cultural psychology, giving support to the idea that different bas...

Academia/Film/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Pedagogy/US-Japan

ASPAC 2014 Abstract: Japanese Historical Process in Anglophone Cinema

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

It’s that time of year again, when procrastinators do their taxes, spring cleaning, and summer abstract writing in one weekend! My proposed paper for ASPA...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/Premodern/江戸

Yes, I watched it.

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

As Jamie Noguchi said, I see these movies so you don’t have to: my review of 47 Ronin is up at HNN. As expected, it’s a blazing failure, with few de...

China/English/Japan/Pigs/Public History/Wikipedia

Pigs in the News and In Wikipedia: Or, Lipstick on a Frog

Posted on June 30, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Vladimir Putin is on a roll. He has been having a fine time poking the US in the eye over the Edward Snowden kerfuffle,  but at a news conference he declin...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

Current/Recent Events/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War

Leave WWII out of it, OK?

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There are good reasons to bring Japan into the gun control debate in the United States: the relative success of firearms regulation in Japan, the recent rise of...

China-Japan/Japan/Memory/War/昭和

Japanese Counter-Insurgency: Strategy or Tactic?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Robert Farley’s article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and implementation begs the question of whether COIN, as it’s called now, ...

Anecdotes/Books/China/China-Japan/Japan

A memory stirs..

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Reading Emily Whewell’s review of this new book on the Chinese and Japanese treaty port systems and extraterritoriality brought back a long-ago scholarly ...

Academia/Anecdotes/China-Japan/Japan

A memory stirs…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Reading Emily Whewell’s review of this new book on the Chinese and Japanese treaty port systems and extraterritoriality brought back a long-ago scholarly ...

China-Japan/Colonial Taiwan/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/War/明治/昭和

Senkaku Islands: New Sources, New Clarity?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about Japan’s relationship with t...

Books and Articles/English/Japan/Literature/Premodern/US-Japan/幕末/江戸

What do Samurai Have To Do With It?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I saw Margi Preus’s Heart of a Samurai (Amulet, 2010) and the title alone made me cringe: just what the world needs, another kid book touting the putative...

Foreign Views/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

Atomic Bomb Symposium at Federation of American Scientists

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s almost no new historical content here, aside from some biographical ruminations. Stanley Kutler’s, reprinted at HNN, is the most historicall...

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