{"id":218,"date":"2006-08-27T01:16:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T06:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2006\/08\/miscellany\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:41","slug":"miscellany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/08\/miscellany-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard on a Prairie Home Companion Joke Show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple goes to the theater, and afterwards the woman turns to the man and says &#8220;I don&#8217;t get Japanese theater!&#8221;<br \/>The man looks at her and says &#8220;What part of &#8220;Noh&#8221; don&#8217;t you understand?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Attempts to <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.cnet.com\/reviews\/blog\/mobileojisan\/0,39050793,39390184,00.htm\">upgrade <i>hanko<\/i> security<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1516\">via<\/a>].\n<\/p>\n<p>Nanjing massacre deniers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/china\/story\/0,,1856506,00.html\">hit with defamation lawsuit in China<\/a>. Being a Chinese lawsuit, it has no legal force in Japan as such, but it does raise interesting issues about liability when working with oral history and living testimony. [<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/29491.html\">via<\/a>] In other Nanjing massacre news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/15\/arts\/15arts.html\">plans to make a movie<\/a> about the atrocity. [<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/29230.html\">via<\/a>] They&#8217;re calling it a Chinese equivalent to &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s list&#8221;: They could make a thoroughly parallel film by focusing on John Rabe&#8230;. The plan is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2006-08\/14\/content_664447.htm\">debut next year on the 70th anniversary<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>New book I want to read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deaflibrary.org\/nakamura\/\">Karen Nakamura<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/080147356X\/ref=ase_deafresourcel-20\/103-7744582-9065415?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155&#038;tagActionCode=deafresourcel-20\"><i>Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity<\/i><\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/h-net.msu.edu\/cgi-bin\/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&#038;list=h-japan&#038;month=0608&#038;week=c&#038;msg=zT56nCnDdeKFLiUSdW5uSQ&#038;user=&#038;pw=\">via<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/disstud.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/new-books-on-dixmont-asylum-deaf-in.html\">and<\/a>] Disability must be one of the last aspects of diversity which remains understudied in Japanese studies.\n<\/p>\n<p>Weak: <a href=\"http:\/\/100wordminimum.org\/archives\/000744.html\">Japanese anti-Global Warming propoganda<\/a>. Seems to me that a simple coastline revision would be dramatic enough&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantfrog.com\/2006\/07\/21\/is-japan-getting-bored-with-english-lets-hope-so\/\">English Teacher Imports Decline<\/a> in Japan, for several years. About time?<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Ralph Luker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/29513.html\">catalog of women history bloggers<\/a> includes a few of our own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard on a Prairie Home Companion Joke Show: A couple goes to the theater, and afterwards the woman turns to the man and says &#8220;I don&#8217;t get Japanese theater!&#8221;The man looks at her and says &#8220;What part of &#8220;Noh&#8221; don&#8217;t you understand?&#8221; Attempts to upgrade hanko security [via]. 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