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Category: US-Japan

1980s/Current/Recent Events/East vs West/Economic/Economics/Japan/US-Japan

President Trump’s Historical Consciousness: Bowling Ball Edition

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Trump, at a recent event, recycled an old chestnut I haven’t heard in years He accused Japan of using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto companies acces...

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

Asian American/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Public History/US-Japan/昭和

Immigrant Panics, then and now.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s not all that much to add to George Takei’s devastating response to Roanoke Mayor David Bowen’s attempt to rationalize refusing Syrian ...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

English/Foreign Views/Military/Science / Technology/US-Japan/War/昭和

Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...

Academia/Film/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Pedagogy/US-Japan

ASPAC 2014 Abstract: Japanese Historical Process in Anglophone Cinema

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

It’s that time of year again, when procrastinators do their taxes, spring cleaning, and summer abstract writing in one weekend! My proposed paper for ASPA...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

Current/Recent Events/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War

Leave WWII out of it, OK?

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There are good reasons to bring Japan into the gun control debate in the United States: the relative success of firearms regulation in Japan, the recent rise of...

Books and Articles/English/Japan/Literature/Premodern/US-Japan/幕末/江戸

What do Samurai Have To Do With It?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I saw Margi Preus’s Heart of a Samurai (Amulet, 2010) and the title alone made me cringe: just what the world needs, another kid book touting the putative...

Foreign Views/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

Atomic Bomb Symposium at Federation of American Scientists

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s almost no new historical content here, aside from some biographical ruminations. Stanley Kutler’s, reprinted at HNN, is the most historicall...

Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/昭和

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

Historiography/Japan/US-Japan/War/昭和

Real History, alternate possibilities: Nuclear Weapons Edition

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Not much of a post, given the nature of my frenetic academic life these days, but Alex Wellerstein’s post at Nuclear Secrecy raises fascinating question a...

Events/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

SHAFR Roundtable on Pearl Harbor (Plus HNN Bonus Article)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbor, the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations has published a ser...

Academia/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/平成

Old Myths, New Myths: Problems of Informed Punditry

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The Asia/Pacific Journal, aka Japan Focus, has a fascinating interview with Heinrich Reinfried, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University St. Gall...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

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