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Category: Memory

English/Japanese/Memory/Politics/War/昭和

New Museum to Focus on Sexual Slavery

Posted on July 15, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 15 Comments

The Japan Times reports that there is to be a new museum, opening next month, which will focus on wartime sexual slavery. The museum is called “The Women&...

China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Korea-Japan/Medieval/Memory/War

1590s Military Technology Gaps

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 20 Comments

I recently ran across two separate references to the Hideyoshi invasions of Korea, both of which credited Hideyoshi’s initial success to firearms. That di...

Archaeology/English/General/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political

Information v. Imperium

Posted on June 16, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This week’s Japan Focus brings discussion of the past, present and future of the Japanese imperial institution. I’m particularly intrigued by the st...

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...

English/Memory/War/昭和

More Former Japanese Soldiers

Posted on May 26, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

There has been some news in the last two days about the possibility that two more Japanese soldiers left behind in the Philippines being “discovered”...

China-Japan/Drama/English/General/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political/昭和

It’s final’s week: Discuss

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Via HNN’s Breaking News, a New York Times quickie: JAPAN: HOLIDAY FOR HIROHITO Japanese lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to honor Emperor Hirohito by renami...

English/General/Memory/Translation

More On Event Names

Posted on February 26, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Nick’s posting about Japanese and English names for historical events prompted and interesting exchange in the comments. Thomas Ekholm noted that in Kenne...

English/General/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/War/Web Sites/昭和

Resource: Kamikaze Images

Posted on February 12, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Education/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics

Historiographical Triangulation

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

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...

English/Memory

Temporary Suspension of “The Country is Burning”

Posted on October 14, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

A comic series tracking the life of a bureaucrat in early Showa Japan has been suspended because of its September 16th and 22nd editions that contained descript...

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