{"id":5420,"date":"2008-04-25T19:15:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T00:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=376"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:32","slug":"wonders-of-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/04\/wonders-of-modern-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonders of Modern Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Japanese-Diasporas-Conflicting-Uncertain-Transformations\/dp\/0415770351\">Japanese Diasporas<\/a>, \uff7c\uff9e\uff6c\uff8a\uff9f\uff86\uff70\uff7d\uff9e\uff83\uff9e\uff72\uff71\uff7d\uff8e\uff9f\uff97, \u8db3\u7acb\u4f38\u5b50 \uff08\u7de8\u8457), including my article &#8220;\u4e00\u516b\u516b\u4e94\uff5e\u4e5d\u56db\u5e74\u306e\u79fb\u4f4f\u8005\u3078\u306e\u8a13\u793a.&#8221; <sup id=\"rf1-5420\"><a href=\"#fn1-5420\" title=\" Professional Question: Is the translation listed as a separate publication on the c.v.? If so, do you note that it is a translation of an earlier publication? If not, do you just list it under the original publication: &#8220;published in translation as&#8230;.&#8221;? \" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> I learned, in the process of writing this post, that my article (in the English language edition) is actually cited and used correctly on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_diaspora\">Wikipedia Japanese Diaspora page<\/a>: &#8220;The Japanese Government was keen on keeping Japanese emigrants well-mannered while abroad in order to show the West that Japan was a dignified society, worthy of respect.&#8221; I may have to revise my opinion of wikipedia, after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jondresner\/2441277901\/\" title=\"Japanese Diasporas in Japanese by jondresner, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2084\/2441277901_c16050466e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"Japanese Diasporas in Japanese\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other news, Manan Ahmed sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/04\/25\/video-japans-oldest-robot-reanimated-writes-calligraphy-in\/\">this Japanese Robot video<\/a>, and while watching it I was struck by the realization that the early modern Japanese robots are based on a much older Japanese technology: Bunraku puppets. In <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=C1119A2RZXA\">this video<\/a>, for example, you can see a demonstration of how the facial features are manipulated.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\"><ol class=\"footnotes\" style=\"list-style-type:decimal\"><li id=\"fn1-5420\"><p > Professional Question: Is the translation listed as a separate publication on the c.v.? If so, do you note that it is a translation of an earlier publication? If not, do you just list it under the original publication: &#8220;published in translation as&#8230;.&#8221;? &nbsp;<a href=\"#rf1-5420\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 1.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of Japanese Diasporas, \uff7c\uff9e\uff6c\uff8a\uff9f\uff86\uff70\uff7d\uff9e\uff83\uff9e\uff72\uff71\uff7d\uff8e\uff9f\uff97, \u8db3\u7acb\u4f38\u5b50 \uff08\u7de8\u8457), including my article &#8220;\u4e00\u516b\u516b\u4e94\uff5e\u4e5d\u56db\u5e74\u306e\u79fb\u4f4f\u8005\u3078\u306e\u8a13\u793a.&#8221; 1 I learned, in the process of writing this post, that my article (in the English language edition) is actually cited and used correctly on the Wikipedia Japanese Diaspora page: &#8220;The Japanese Government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[166,10,170,114,119,126,63,157,198,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-bibliography","category-books-and-articles","category-diaspora","category-english","category-general","category-japan","category-science-and-technology","category-us-japan","category-205"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1pq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}