Searching Google Print for Old Books on Japan
Google print, which is scanning thousands of books in major research libraries, is useful when you want to scan across many English language books for terms. It...
Category: Web Sites
Searching Boston Museum of Fine Arts
“The Humane Great Japanese Cross Medical Corps Tending to the Injured in the Russo-Japanese War” (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) The Boston Museum of F...
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...
The Lost Tribe
Ralph Luker sent me a link which I’d seen before, but lost: Arimasa Kubo’s “Israelites Came To Ancient Japan” pages. It’s a great ...
Recent Links
These all deserve separate posts, but here are some links I found in the last few days that I wanted to write about but didn’t have time for (perhaps othe...
Frog in a Well – China Launches Today
I’m happy to announce that today, the second of the Frog in a Well blogs, dedicated primarily to Chinese history, is officially launching and the more tha...
Savage Minds
Just wanted to mention that there is a new academic group blog in town dedicated to Anthropology. Like Frog in a Well, Savage Minds is maintained by a number of...
National Diet Library Web site
The National Diet Library (NDL) site 国立国会図書館 offers essential resources for research on Japan including the NDL-OPAC (National bibliography) and Journal index 雑...
H-Japan: Some Recent Postings
Just passing on some links from the H-Japan discussion list. Yone Sugita has reviewed Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolon...
History Mini-Sites
I’m sure I’m not the only one who, as I read some interesting history in one of those paper-inscribed book-things, wonder if information about the h...
Resource: Kamikaze Images
Wesleyan’s William Johnston forwarded this to H-Japan: a web archive of Kamikaze images. It looks like a very rich, and responsibly constructed, collectio...
Social Management
Sheldon Garon’s delightful book Molding Japanese Minds outlines how the Japanese state has entered the everyday life of its citizens. He focuses on what h...
Japanese Historical Maps
I have been going through the H-Japan messages from the last few months, trying to get caught up with my mailing list subscriptions. One wonderful website menti...
Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms
The presentation I attended on the Japan Memory Project which I covered in my last posting also discussed another part of their institute’s online efforts...