History Carnival #75: Semisesquicentennial! Terquasquigenary! Septuagesiquintennial!
Note: The History Carnival is still looking for a May 1st host, as well as hosts for the summer and beyond. Contact Sharon Howard (sharon$@$earlymodernweb$.$org...
Category: Web Sites
Dutch Futurists
Alan Baumler pointed me to peacay’s recent post of Dutch images of 17th century Japan. Some of them are quite accurate — the images of samurai, in p...
December History Carnival Posted
The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few Korea bits. Also lots of other neat stuff.
Dig into those archives: History Carnival and Cliopatria Awards
Two deadlines are fast approaching: nominations for Cliopatria Awards for best blogging, 2008 (covering from December 2007 through November 2008) close Sunday a...
Japanese City Plans and Topographical Maps from the US Occupation
While I’m sure there are a lot of similar resources that deserve equal mention, I wanted to post a link while it is fresh on my mind. There are a great co...
Online Registration For the Korean National Archives
I reported in my recent posting on the Korean National Archives that online registration for the site is broken for all non-Koreans. This is unfortunate since t...
The Korean National Archives
I just came back from a day at the Korean National Archives headquarters in Taejŏn (Daejeon) and thought I would share some details of the experience in case so...
Colonial Period School Architectural Archive
Thanks to a posting at The Marmot’s Hole I learned about a project being undertaken by the National Archives to display a variety of information, archival...
Images of Late Medieval Disease Critters and Meiji Toys
Japanese historical visual materials are becoming available online in increasing quantities and variety, as seen in two posts from the last week from Pink Tenta...
Asian Studies Toolbar
A recent exchange on H-Asia mentioned the Asian Studies Toolbar, which I first read about in March of last year when the maker, John Noyce (“a librarian t...
Calendar converter
Some of you may know about this tool already, but I just discovered Matthias Schemm’s wonderful NengoCalc, an online or offline converter of Japanese and ...
Ancient Japan Blog
I recently came across the Ancient Japan weblog. Looking through its archives, I see that it has been offering up interesting postings for over a year now and j...
Encyclopedia of Shinto
I was just catching up on my reading of H-Japan postings, when I came across an announcement that I thought might be worth sharing with those who don’t su...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Sino-Japanese Studies Journal Online
I am happy to announce the completion of a project that I have been working on in my spare time for about a month now: the digitization of the Sino-Japanese Stu...