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Category: Law

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Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Law/Medieval/Popular Culture/平成

Only in Japan: Yakuza Sued

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times is reporting on tensions between the Dojinkai and the civilians living in the neighborhood of their headquarters. Two features of this are wo...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/Historiography/Japan/Law/Nationalism/US-Japan/大正/明治/昭和

Migration, Nationalism, Empire

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s recent Japan Focus article, “Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empi...

English/General/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Law/Nationalism

Korean War Criminals in the Movement to “Set History Straight”

Posted on March 30, 2008 by sayaka / 2 Comments

Frog in a Well welcomes a guest posting from Sayaka Chatani on the issue of Korean War Criminals and the difficulty Korean historians have found in addressing t...

Diaspora/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Korea-Japan/Law/Literature/昭和

Diasporic Remnants

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’m always interested in interesting tales and connections regarding the Japanese diaspora. Here’s a couple that I’ve run across: New research...

1945-1950/Korea/Law/North Korea

National Archives: Captured North Korean Documents

Posted on April 5, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 12 Comments

I returned last week from the second of what will be four trips to the National Archives before I leave for Korea in June. On my first trip I had only two days ...

1945-1950/Korea/Law/Politics

Getting Out the Vote

Posted on March 2, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

In the weeks leading up to May 10th, 1948, the United States run interim Military Government in southern Korea was busy preparing the national assembly election...

Books and Articles/English/Law

2007: Japanese Works Now in the Public Domain

Posted on January 4, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Matt over at No-Sword has listed and linked to a few Japanese authors who, due to the life+50 years copyright rule, now have all of their works released into th...

Archaeology/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Law/Libraries/Museums

History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...

Current/Recent Events/Education/General/Japan/Law/Nationalism/Politics

Shades of Mori Arinori

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

Recently the Japanese Diet has been debating several competing bills to revise the Fundamental Education Law of 1947.  One of the most contested issues is an ef...

1970s/Cultural/Korea/Law

The Marijuana Crisis of ’75

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

I’ve been dipping into an excellent book on the history of Korean popular music now and then (이혜숙 & 손우석 – 한국대중음악사) and came across a fascinatin...

Academia/Archives/Current/Recent Events/English/General/Japan/Law/Libraries

Data: Personal v. Historical

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

A recent initiative in the US to limit access to birth and death records [via] along with other personal data would severely limit the ability of historical and...

Current/Recent Events/English/Historiography/Japan/Law/Nationalism/War/昭和

Revision and Revisionism

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Japan/Law/Nationalism/Political/Politics

Akihito as the Sovereign of Japan?

Posted on July 9, 2005 by tak / 7 Comments

Asahi Shinbun reports that the LDP has accepted plans to push for changing the name “Self-Defense Force”(「自衛隊」) to “Self-Defense Military̶...

Art/China-Japan/Education/English/Gender/Japan/Korea-Japan/Law/Memory/Nationalism/Politics/大正/明治/昭和

Updates: Textbook and Constitutional revision

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Tri-national textbook I wrote about here has been published. The South Koreans, at least, are taking it pretty seriously [via Ralph Luker], with national di...

Books and Articles/English/Law/江戸

Stealing 9.99 ryō

Posted on March 28, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

In his new book on Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan, Daniel Botsman mentions that it became customary in the Edo period to report the theft of...

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