http://www.froginawell.net/japan The Japan History Group Blog Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:43:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival #20 Part II Asian History Carnival #20 Part III We are looking for volunteers to host the September and November installments. Read more on the carnival ... http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2008/07/asian-history-carnival-20/ I'm sitting in the Taiwanese National Library here in Taipei and just finished looking through an unusual publication put out in December, 1946 by 臺灣新生報社, the publisher of an important newspaper going by that name. It is entitled, 『民主とは何ぞや』(What is Democracy?) What is immediately striking about the pamphlet is the ... http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2008/07/taiwan-1946-asking-what-is-democracy-in-japanese/ You grade sixty tests, and what do you get? Three months older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me, cause I can't go! I owe book orders to the campus bookstore.... *** Books that still need to be written about Meiji Japan (( inspired by the difficulties my Meiji class students had ... http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2008/05/end-of-semester-bits-n-pieces/ After creating an OS X dashboard widget to converting Korean 檀紀 years into to western years, it was only a matter of time before another moment of distraction got me to playing with the idea of creating widgets for converting Japanese and Chinese calendars. After a long day of reading ... http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2008/05/japan-calendar-converter-dashboard-widget/ Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as "newly discovered" photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. Over the last few days, after the pictures were reported by HNN, the Huffington Post, and Wired, among others, members of the Japanese studies community took a closer ... http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2008/05/archival-incidents/