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Category: Occupation

Film/Occupation

Princess Iron Fan and the origins of Asian animation

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Like most of you (I assume) I knew that Princess Iron Fan 鐵扇公主 (1941) was China’s first full-length animated film. Also like most of you I assume that you...

Occupation/US-Japan/昭和

The Hicswa Court-martial: a Double Murder in Nara, 1945

Posted on February 9, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

The US occupation of Japan after World War II was not, relatively speaking, a violent one and though the behavior of occupation troops in Japan did lead to many...

Communism/Occupation/Popular Culture/US-Japan

The Red Flag Song

Posted on October 30, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

On May 1, 1946 Oscar Olander, a former commissioner of the Michigan State police, entered Tokyo early on the morning of “Food May Day” as part of hi...

Current/Recent Events/International Affairs/Japan/Occupation/US-Japan/明治/昭和/江戸

The Bow

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 9 Comments

Via my old friend Scott Eric Kaufman I learned that President Obama’s visit to Japan was drawing criticism from the American right (I also learned that Pr...

Academia/General/Japan/Korea-Japan/Occupation/US-Japan

ASPAC Blogging: Colonialism and Imperialism

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

There were quite a few papers at ASPAC this year which addressed Japan’s colonial and imperial relationships: my own discussion of migration as an aspect ...

Academia/China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Memory/Occupation/Politics/US-Japan/War/昭和

Useful, Inconvenient History

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Bush cited John Dower regarding the potential for post-war democratization. Bush was using Dower’s Embracing Defeat to ridicule those who believ...

Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan/War/昭和

What’s New?

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Center for Japanese Studies has a new collection of Occupation-era photographs. I’m struck by two things in parti...

Archaeology/Blog Carnival/China-Japan/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Korea-Japan/Occupation/US-Japan/War/Web Sites/昭和

Asian History News Dump, March 2007

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...

Academia/China-Japan/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Museums/Nationalism/Occupation/War

Grading Finished; Blogging Resumes

Posted on December 24, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

She really has no conviction to her writing. It seemed merely argumentative and she was just trying to prove her points through facts. That’s alright to m...

General/Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan

Photos of Japan, 1951

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 13 Comments

One of my former students and her boyfriend have been scanning in old photos, and they happened upon some gems taken by the young man’s grandfather when h...

China-Japan/English/Film/Korea-Japan/Memory/Occupation/War/昭和

Empire in Sonny Chiba’s Shōrinji Kempō

Posted on November 5, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I just watched an old 1975 movie with Sonny Chiba in it called Shōrinji Kempō 少林寺拳法 (the English title, inexplicably is “The Killing Machine”) which...

English/Media/Occupation/昭和

The Case of Taiwa Shinron

Posted on March 2, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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 ...

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