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International Affairs/Japan/Okinawa/Politics

Sex, Lies, and Okinawa

Posted on July 15, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

For anyone interested in Okinawa and the history of journalism in Japan, David Jacobson over at Japan Media Review has recently reported on a new lawsuit by a j...

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...

Intellectual/Japan/Politics/昭和

Post-Anpo Apostasy

Posted on July 7, 2005 by tak / 2 Comments

During my search for a short article on Anpo (the anti U.S.-Japan Security Treaty movement in 1960), Konrad mentioned that he would be interested in hearing abo...

Japan/Nationalism/Politics/War

Hinomaru Mystery

Posted on June 20, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

Over at H-Japan, there’s a discussion about the Hinomaru, Japan’s national flag. I was intrigued and clicked over to Wikipedia. I knew that the sun ...

Japan/Nationalism/Politics/War/昭和

The May 15 Incident (1932): Inukai & Chaplin

Posted on June 18, 2005 by tak / 5 Comments

Hi I’m Tak Watanabe, and I’m new here. (Thanks Konrad for the invite!) I’ll post a self-introduction soon, but in the mean time I wanted to po...

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...

Books and Articles/General/Japan/Japanese/Politics/明治

細谷千博、『シベリア出兵の史的研究』

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Kim Youngsoo / 0 Comment

We recently covered the book、『シベリア出兵の史的研究』(細谷千博、岩波現代文庫、2005) in my class. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the first class, so I’ll make some commen...

China-Japan/Economic/English/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Politics/War/昭和

Nationalistic Internationalism

Posted on April 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Prehistory: You could almost write Japan’s entire modern history as the drive for respect from the rest of the world. Starting with the unequal treaties o...

English/General/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Politics

Bamboo v. Lonesome

Posted on March 29, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 21 Comments

Japan Focus has a “three-fer” this week on the Korean-Japanese dispute over a rock. Well, technically “islets” but it’s just rocks...

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/Japan/Politics/Science and Technology/昭和

Minamata Justice

Posted on October 18, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government to pay compensation to additional victims of one of the most egregious and troubling cases of environmental i...

English/Politics/大正

A Parliamentarian’s Weapon of Choice

Posted on October 7, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I am afraid that most of my postings for the foreseeable future will be snippets from the basic readings on modern Japanese history that are taking up much of m...

English/International Affairs/Japan/Politics

Joint Press Conference Predictions: Little Asia

Posted on September 29, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s not a debate, in any meaningful sense of the word, unless they break the rules. It’s a joint press conference, and the only thing that makes it...

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