Socialism is good
Finally. Just in time for the end of the semester. I managed to find an on-line version of Socialism Is Good. Well, not just a version. There are lots of fairly...
Category: Media
History as it happens
Though I’m usually not shy about speaking historically when big events happen, I’ve been very reticent on the Tohoku disasters. As others have point...
April Fool's Day, Self Puffery and Töfood
Hooray for me! China Beat, my second favorite China blog, has started a series of quizzes — why didn’t we think of that? The most recent asked reade...
Conference in Japan on Media in the Foreign Concessions
If you understand Japanese, are in Tokyo, and interested in the history of the foreign concessions of China, you may find a conference being held at Waseda of i...
Conference: 日中ジャーナリズム研究サミット
The 20世紀メディア研究所, which produces the wonderful journal Intelligence and helps manage the amazing online database index of the Prange archive of early postwar Jap...
New Media and Japanese Studies
WARNING: those of you interested in Japanese studies but not in internet technologies, new media, and the whole question of how digital learning does or doesn&#...
Three thoughts on Visibility
My favorite new blog Photoshop Disasters has a Korean Basic Instinct 2 poster in which Sharon Stone’s head has been altered from the US version: Cosmo7 ci...
2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
OK, fellow bloggers and Japan-watchers, I’d like to propose that we participate in the mass hysteria that is the year-end-review list. What media stories ...
Koguryŏ on the box
I know I’m way behind the times on this subject as it was already brought up at the Marmot’s Hole weeks ago, but I’d like to put out a call fo...
China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...
The Other Apprentice
Lewis Libby, The Apprentice, Graywolf Press, St. Paul Minnesota, 1996. Libby’s novel has gotten more attention since his indictment, most of it bad. Howev...
Symposium Commemorating the Completion of the Occupation Period Magazine Article Database
The Prange Archive online magazine article database for the occupation period was an absolutely essential tool for me in my most recent research project. If you...
The Case of Taiwa Shinron
In addition to preparing for my oral exams, the most significant project I have been working on recently involves research on the early US occupation period in ...