http://www.froginawell.net/japan The Japan History Group Blog Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:51:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the Prefatory Remarks to Aizawa Yasushi’s 1825 New Theses (新論) we find an interesting little gloss on the relationship of the “Divine Realm” of Japan and the Western world: The earth lies amid the heavenly firmament, is round in shape, and has no edges. All things exist as nature dictates. Thus, our Divine Realm is [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2010/02/aizawa-yasushi-on-america/ I’m very pleased to be hosting my 6th History Carnival, and I thought it would be fun to extend the carnival into a new medium this time: I’ve spent the whole day Tweeting the carnival at my twitter feed. Sharon Howard created a dynamic archive of the carnival, which can also be found by using [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2010/02/history-carnival-84-after-the-tweeting-is-done/ I was going to post about it here, but Another Damned Medievalist raised the question of how to deal with primary sources in a class where students lack important background concepts, and so I’m going to share the comment I made over there and then expand on it a bit: I’m not sure if I’d [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2010/01/dinner-first-then-dessert/ I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dissertation. I have decided, however, to share the occasional short anecdote that pops up in some of the secondary and primary sources I come across. In his book [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2009/12/japanese-soldiers-use-an-accountants-trick/ Paul Krugman wrote a column in which he argued that the last decade in the US has been a waste of time, economically speaking: But from an economic point of view, I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/japan/2009/12/americas-lost-decade/