Revisionism (History news round up I)
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but hopefully that will improve with the new year. To kick things off this year I thought I’d gather toget...
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History Carnival #38
“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...
“Mass-based dictatorship”? A little info on S. Korea’s welfare policies in the 1960s
In South Korean academia, one of the most long-standing and productive discussions (I have been following it for around 3 years now, but it may have begun even ...
Yasukuni: Why the Emperor Stopped Going
There have been two relatively important Japan history-related news items in the news of late. There have been revelations about US covert funding of Japanese p...
Shades of Mori Arinori
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...
The use “chunghung”
Does anyone have any thought or evidence on whether the use of chunghung (restoration/renovation/rejuvenation) during the Park Chung Hee years was generic or de...
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Colonialogy
I think we need a new word for the study of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial discourses, pro and con. Pro? Who’s in favor of it? Well, this ...
History, or politics by other means
I would like to share my musings and solicit opinions on one issue I always was interested in – namely, to what degree the ways in which states attempt to...
Thoughts on Yusin
Readers here might be interested in giving thoughts about a query and my comment regarding Yusin on the Korean Studies Discussion List by Dr. Alon Levkowitz. Hi...
Semantics and History: Did Japan “Invade” Korea?
Well, the obvious answer to that question is yes, but that’s not the invasion we’re talking about. Over on the Korea side, there’s a lively di...
Hitler Watch: Koizumi
Is Koizuimi Junichiro another Hitler? One former LDP’er thinks so, and Chinese academician Feng Zhaokui agrees [via]: Feng’s Fear History They both ...
Yasukuni and Japanese Flags
Rod Wilson and I visited Yasukuni on August 15 to check out the right-wing festivities, which was a pretty…interesting…experience. It was everything...
Kotaji on Korea (& Japan)
I wanted to quickly mention two fascinating posts by Kotaji in the last two weeks that may be of interest to readers here. First, he refers to an article in OhM...