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Author: Jonathan Dresner

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April 15th — Date of Destiny

Posted on April 9, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Three significant events converge on April 15th this year: First, it is US Tax Filing Deadline Day. How is it that you can live almost identical lives from year...

English/General/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Politics

Bamboo v. Lonesome

Posted on March 29, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 21 Comments

Japan Focus has a “three-fer” this week on the Korean-Japanese dispute over a rock. Well, technically “islets” but it’s just rocks...

Cultural/English/Intellectual/Japan/江戸

Renaissance Japan

Posted on March 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Epochal analogies are some of the trickiest traps in our historical discourse. Whether it’s the Medieval v. Feudal snake pit or the quicksand of finely gr...

China-Japan/Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval/Religion

The Gateless Gate Online

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Here is the gateway to The Gateless Gate. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. But it’s a real treasure of a document, and a very nicely done site. Granted, mu...

English/General/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/War/Web Sites/昭和

Resource: Kamikaze Images

Posted on February 12, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Wesleyan’s William Johnston forwarded this to H-Japan: a web archive of Kamikaze images. It looks like a very rich, and responsibly constructed, collectio...

Economic/Education/English/Japan/江戸

Early Modern Numeracy

Posted on February 7, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading Hanley’s Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture with my class (which is quite interestingly divided on the succ...

English/Events/Japan/Political/明治

Stumbling to Glory

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

When an antiquated and undemocratic regime falls quickly, those who follow it often do so with little firm idea what they want or how they will achieve it. Slog...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Education/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics

Historiographical Triangulation

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

This could be good, or it could be awful. Or it might be a good first draft, but the effort certainly seems worth noting (emphasis added): A middle school histo...

English/Events/General/Japan

Hanshin Jishin 10th anniversary

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

White Peril and Far Outliers have notes about the decade-ago disaster. We were in Yamaguchi when it happened: woke me out of a sound sleep from 200 miles away. ...

Academia/Education/Japan/Science and Technology

Japanese Universities in World Context

Posted on January 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Tomorrow’s Professor just forwarded a list of the top 500 universities in the world. As the introduction says Attempting to rank universities world-wide i...

Academia/English/Japan/Political/War/明治/昭和

Japan-heavy day at the AHA

Posted on January 9, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Some interesting Japanese history under discussion on Day Three of the AHA. Daily update here. As Konrad suggested, I’ll have some more general thoughts o...

China-Japan/English/International Affairs/Japan/War/昭和

China’s use of Japanese history

Posted on January 2, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Young Chinese aren’t well educated in history, and there’s little evidence of much interest. They know what the state wants them to know (“pos...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Intellectual/International Affairs/Japan/Religion

Japan’s contribution to nihilistic Islamism

Posted on December 27, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The AHA’s flagship journal American Historical Review doesn’t run Japanese articles all that often and, to be honest, interesting ones even more rar...

General/Japan

Post-war Japan Photo Exhibit

Posted on December 26, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In a review of the New York art world’s year, the NYTimes reminded me of this exhibit of post-war Japanese photographs. Some interesting images, to be sur...

Academia/English/Japan

CFP: ASPAC 2005

Posted on December 25, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’m a big fan of sub-national academic conferences. The nationals are fine, of course: I’ve gone to quite a few, some even when I wasn’t looki...

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