Bamboo v. Lonesome
Japan Focus has a “three-fer” this week on the Korean-Japanese dispute over a rock. Well, technically “islets” but it’s just rocks...
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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...
Movie: 2009 Lost Memories
I recently watched the 2001 Korean science fiction movie called 2009 Lost Memories (2009 로스트메모리즈, IMDB entry) w...
Breaking News: WWII won’t go away
OK, that’s not all that surprising at this point. But I was a bit taken aback when three articles all about separate aspects of WWII in Japan showed up in...
Why did the Mongols Attack Hakata Bay Twice?
I’ve been doing Japanese history for fifteen years, now, and Chinese history for a decade, and I’ve never figured out why the Mongols, after their f...