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Author: Nick Kapur

Cultural/Education/Japan/大正

Controversy over the origins of the Japanese schoolgirl sailor uniform

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Nick Kapur / 3 Comments

For years private girls academy Fukuoka Jogakuin in Kyushu has been credited with first introducing in 1921 the famous sailor-style uniform worn by so many midd...

Archaeology/Current/Recent Events/Japan/Premodern

Imperial Tombs Finally Opened to Archaeologists…Sorta

Posted on January 6, 2007 by Nick Kapur / 2 Comments

It was quietly announced this week that researchers would be allowed to examine 11 ancient Japanese tombs, said to be the final resting places of Japan’s ...

Current/Recent Events/Education/General/Japan/Law/Nationalism/Politics

Shades of Mori Arinori

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

Recently the Japanese Diet has been debating several competing bills to revise the Fundamental Education Law of 1947.  One of the most contested issues is an ef...

Current/Recent Events/International Affairs/Japan/War

The Return of Uwano Ishinosuke

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

 Japanese World War II military stragglers are still showing up on the newswires six decades after the end of the conflict. This past week, Japan has been capti...

China-Japan/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Translation/US-Japan/War

Yasukuni and Japanese Flags

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 5 Comments

Rod Wilson and I visited Yasukuni on August 15 to check out the right-wing festivities, which was a pretty…interesting…experience. It was everything...

English/Events/General/Japan/War/昭和

New Kamikaze Play

Posted on February 21, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

This month a play about kamikaze pilots has been running at the El Portal Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, and has received outstanding reviews. Titled “Ten ...

General/Japan/Medieval/Translation/幕末/明治

Restoration or Renovation?

Posted on February 21, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 8 Comments

I’ve always found it interesting how certain events in Japanese history have become indelibly associated with a canonical English translation that often h...

English/General/Japan

自己紹介: Nick Kapur

Posted on February 20, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 6 Comments

I’m doctoral student at Harvard University in International History, with a focus on US-Japan relations. At least for now that is, as Konrad is doing his ...

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