Restoration or Renovation?
I’ve always found it interesting how certain events in Japanese history have become indelibly associated with a canonical English translation that often h...
Category: Japan
自己紹介: Nick Kapur
I’m doctoral student at Harvard University in International History, with a focus on US-Japan relations. At least for now that is, as Konrad is doing his ...
Resource: Kamikaze Images
Wesleyan’s William Johnston forwarded this to H-Japan: a web archive of Kamikaze images. It looks like a very rich, and responsibly constructed, collectio...
Usage of ‘dou’ (道） in Japan.
I have been thinking about the usage of “dou” (道） within japanese arts and sports. Since Meiji-period is not one of my strong points, you might know...
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Historiographical Triangulation
This could be good, or it could be awful. Or it might be a good first draft, but the effort certainly seems worth noting (emphasis added): A middle school histo...
Hanshin Jishin 10th anniversary
White Peril and Far Outliers have notes about the decade-ago disaster. We were in Yamaguchi when it happened: woke me out of a sound sleep from 200 miles away. ...
Japanese Universities in World Context
Tomorrow’s Professor just forwarded a list of the top 500 universities in the world. As the introduction says Attempting to rank universities world-wide i...
China’s use of Japanese history
Young Chinese aren’t well educated in history, and there’s little evidence of much interest. They know what the state wants them to know (“pos...
Japan’s contribution to nihilistic Islamism
The AHA’s flagship journal American Historical Review doesn’t run Japanese articles all that often and, to be honest, interesting ones even more rar...
Post-war Japan Photo Exhibit
In a review of the New York art world’s year, the NYTimes reminded me of this exhibit of post-war Japanese photographs. Some interesting images, to be sur...
CFP: ASPAC 2005
I’m a big fan of sub-national academic conferences. The nationals are fine, of course: I’ve gone to quite a few, some even when I wasn’t looki...
Successful Sakoku?
Talking about the semi-seclusion policies of the Tokugawa polity in class recently, and a student asked “was it a successful policy?” I had already ...