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Category: US-Japan

Cultural/Japan/US-Japan

Japanophilia

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 5 Comments

I am starting to work on my courses for next semester and am getting excited to teach one of my favorites: an upper-level seminar called “Japanophilia: Or...

English/General/Japan/US-Japan/War/昭和

Why Start a War? Why Fight Dirty?

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

An interesting query came across H-Japan a while back, but it never got much discussion, so I thought I’d see if we could pique some interest here. Date: ...

Academia/Cultural/Events/Japan/US-Japan

Japanese diaspora

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

This past weekend I was a discussant at a graduate student conference at UCLA, sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies. The title (a bit wordy for my taste...

Archaeology/English/General/Japan/Nationalism/US-Japan

Read the Bones

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Forensic anthropologists who got a look at the earliest known human remains found in North America think he looks Ainu rather than Native American. Some Ainu’s ...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/General/Japan/Literature/Media/US-Japan/明治

The Other Apprentice

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Lewis Libby, The Apprentice, Graywolf Press, St. Paul Minnesota, 1996. Libby’s novel has gotten more attention since his indictment, most of it bad. Howev...

Academia/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/US-Japan

Our Future, more or less

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The head of the Japan Foundation (to whom I, like so many, owe thanks) has made some comments on the state and future of Japan Studies. It’s his job, afte...

Archives/English/US-Japan

1946 Survey Question about the Character of the Japanese People

Posted on January 7, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

While looking for some old Gallup polls in Lexis-Nexis, I came across the following poll question from May of 1946. Some readers may find either the results or ...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/General/Japan/Literature/US-Japan/明治

“The Apprentice”

Posted on November 3, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I recently learned [29 October 2005 show, round 3] that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, recently indicted for his role in, at the very least, the coverup ...

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...

China-Japan/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Translation/US-Japan/War

Yasukuni and Japanese Flags

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 5 Comments

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...

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