{"id":80,"date":"2005-05-28T04:10:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=80"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:49","slug":"on-schedule-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/05\/on-schedule-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates: Textbook and Constitutional revision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tri-national textbook I wrote about here<\/a> has been published<\/a>. The South Koreans, at least, are taking it pretty seriously<\/a> [via Ralph Luker], with national distribution in the works. <\/p>\n

The Constitutional revision question I wrote about here<\/a> has expanded<\/a>, apparently, to include the gender equity clauses, which are being blamed by social conservatives for “promoting egoism… collapse of family and community … a plunging marriage rate, an anemic birthrate and increasing delinquency in schools.” (OK, I followed it pretty well up to the last one: anyone who wants to explain to me the connection between gender equality and educational disorder is welcome to try)<\/p>\n

Non Sequitur<\/b>: A virtual gallery of Japanese Manhole Covers<\/a> [via Ralph Luker] reveals some extraordinary public art. Now, can anyone tell me how this began, or why Japan does this and nobody else, as far as I know, does? Or is the US the only country whose underground access portal covers are boring?<\/p>\n

History Carnival #9<\/a><\/b> is a rich collection (in spite of finals, it’s been a fine fortnight), including Craig’s essay<\/a> (it’s much to substantial to be just “a post”) on Karate, which Sharon Howard graciously (and accurately, I think) calls “one of the outstanding posts of the month.” I will be talking about historians in cyberspace at ASPAC, and I’m grateful that I have so much to work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tri-national textbook I wrote about here has been published. The South Koreans, at least, are taking it pretty seriously [via Ralph Luker], with national distribution in the works. The Constitutional revision question I wrote about here has expanded, apparently, to include the gender equity clauses, which are being blamed by social conservatives for “promoting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[167,102,118,119,125,63,183,184,187,61,194,201,205,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-china-japan","category-education","category-english","category-gender","category-japan","category-korea-japan","category-law","category-memory","category-nationalism","category-politics","category-201","category-205","category-206"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}