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Confucianism Today

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Taisu Zhang has an interesting piece on China File analyzing the recent Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu paper on ideology in China. Zhang is trying to figure out why...

Current/Recent Events/General/Japan/Political/Politics/平成

Soft and Fuzzy Historic Events

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Last time I lived in Japan, the LDP lost control of the Diet, and for a year and a half there was a Socialist Prime Minister in charge of an implausible coaliti...

Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Political/Politics/平成/昭和

ASPAC Blogging: Japan’s Political Present and Future

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My copanelists on Saturday were political scientists, and it was a good update for me on what what’s going on with Japan in the last ten years or so. R...

Academia/China-Japan/General/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Political/US-Japan

George O. Totten III (1922-2009)

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

George O. Totten III passed away at the beginning of this month; I just saw the obituary on H-Japan. Though I knew Totten mostly through his scholarship on the ...

Academia/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Marginalizing Discourses at ASPAC

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For the conclusion to my ASPAC blogging, I want to talk about the panel which invited me to serve as moderator. It was a pleasure, and not just because three of...

Cultural/English/General/Japan/Nationalism/Political/US-Japan

My Tradition’s Bigger Than Your Tradition

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 13 Comments

In an argument about Japanese-American draft-resistor internees during WWII, Eric Muller wrote in my book I argue that vocal and visible protest of government o...

English/General/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治

Who’s On Top?

Posted on September 17, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

This came across the H-Japan wires, and I was intrigued by both the project itself and the immense time-wasting potential of listmaking, so I wrote to Ms. Kim a...

Current/Recent Events/Economic/English/Events/General/Japan/Political/明治

Open Thread: Election Results

Posted on September 12, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Lots of folks are pretty sure that the success of Koizumi’s rejuvenated LDP in yesterday’s elections [here’s a good summary] means something. ...

Books and Articles/Film/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political/War

Article Nine on Film

Posted on July 19, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

Kei Yamamoto, writing for the citizen newspaper JANJAN, has reviewed the film Japan’s Peace Constitution (邦題 『映画 日本憲法』). The film is directed by John Junk...

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...

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...

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/Events/Japan/Political/明治

Stumbling to Glory

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

When an antiquated and undemocratic regime falls quickly, those who follow it often do so with little firm idea what they want or how they will achieve it. Slog...

Academia/English/Japan/Political/War/明治/昭和

Japan-heavy day at the AHA

Posted on January 9, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Some interesting Japanese history under discussion on Day Three of the AHA. Daily update here. As Konrad suggested, I’ll have some more general thoughts o...

English/Japan/Law/Nationalism/Political/昭和

A New Constitution for Japan?

Posted on November 18, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I love constitutions. They’re great texts for teaching, they are fantastic touchstones for discussion and, of course, they are crucial to the definition o...

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