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Author: Jonathan Dresner

English/Japan/江戸

Successful Sakoku?

Posted on December 11, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Talking about the semi-seclusion policies of the Tokugawa polity in class recently, and a student asked “was it a successful policy?” I had already ...

Cultural/English/General/Japan/幕末

Sondheim’s Perry?

Posted on December 2, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I had no idea: Stephen Sondheim (yes, I’m one of his many fans) wrote a musical about the arrival of Commodore Perry called Pacific Overtures. There’...

English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/War/昭和

Breaking News: WWII won’t go away

Posted on November 29, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

OK, that’s not all that surprising at this point. But I was a bit taken aback when three articles all about separate aspects of WWII in Japan showed up in...

English/Japan/Law/Nationalism/Political/昭和

A New Constitution for Japan?

Posted on November 18, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I love constitutions. They’re great texts for teaching, they are fantastic touchstones for discussion and, of course, they are crucial to the definition o...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/English/Japan/Nationalism/War/昭和

Iris Chang’s Death

Posted on November 11, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Iris Chang is dead, apparently by her own hand as a result of depression. Her work on the Nanjing Massacre brought her fame and attention, of all kinds. She was...

Cultural/Economic/English/Japan/Nationalism/Science and Technology/明治

Farewell, Soseki

Posted on November 10, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m going to miss Natsume Soseki. I know, he’s been dead for a long time (are there any plans in the works for centennial editions or celebrations, ...

Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval

Why I love classical literature

Posted on October 27, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

From Yoshida Kenkō’s Tsurezuregusa, aka Essays in Idleness (Stephen Carter translation in McCullough’s Classical Japanese Prose, p. 416) 189 Today y...

English/Japan/Politics/Science and Technology/昭和

Minamata Justice

Posted on October 18, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government to pay compensation to additional victims of one of the most egregious and troubling cases of environmental i...

English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Medieval/War

Why did the Mongols Attack Hakata Bay Twice?

Posted on October 15, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I’ve been doing Japanese history for fifteen years, now, and Chinese history for a decade, and I’ve never figured out why the Mongols, after their f...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Japan/Translation

Translation Prize and Gatekeeper Issues

Posted on October 14, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

A colleague of mine, Prof. Larry Rogers, just won the 2004 Keene Center translation award for his book of translations of modern stories about Tokyo neighborhoo...

Cultural/Japan/Nationalism/Science and Technology

Japanese Pride and Influence

Posted on October 5, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

If you’ve studied Japan for even a few years, it becomes clear that Japanese are very sensitive about Nobel prizes. They haven’t won a lot of them, ...

English/International Affairs/Japan/Politics

Joint Press Conference Predictions: Little Asia

Posted on September 29, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s not a debate, in any meaningful sense of the word, unless they break the rules. It’s a joint press conference, and the only thing that makes it...

Academia/General/Japan

Self-Introduction: Luck and Curiousity

Posted on September 28, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

My name is Jonathan Dresner, and I consider myself a very lucky man. I had no particular interest in Japan or history in High School, until I spent a year in Na...

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