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Academia/Japan/War/明治

Russo-Japanese War Re-visited

Posted on October 8, 2005 by tak / 6 Comments

I fortuitously caught the last twenty minutes or so of a panel discussion titled “The Meaning of the Russo-Japanese War Today” on NHK Kyoiku Televis...

bibliography/Economic/Japan/Literature/昭和

The Price of Historical Accuracy

Posted on August 11, 2005 by tak / 3 Comments

Recently I received an email from a novelist out on the West Coast who is working on a historical novel set in 1946 Japan. She wanted to know how much things co...

Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics/Web Sites

Kotaji on Korea (& Japan)

Posted on August 10, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

I wanted to quickly mention two fascinating posts by Kotaji in the last two weeks that may be of interest to readers here. First, he refers to an article in OhM...

English/Film/Japan/昭和

The Wushe Incident on Film

Posted on August 5, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

Kerim at his blog Keywords alerts us to a film, currently under production, that reconstructs the Wushe Incident (霧社事件), the famous aboriginal Taiwanese rebelli...

Art/Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Japan/昭和

Jazz in Japan

Posted on August 3, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

Michael Molasky, who teaches at University of Minnesota and has published on Okinawa literature (this and this), has recently released a book in Japanese on the...

Books and Articles/English/Japan

A Cyberpunk-ish Tale of a Young Missing Historian

Posted on August 1, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

A Japan historian in a novel! The New York Times has a book review of The Method Actors by Carl Shuker. The review says: Shuker’s basic plot concerns the ...

Academia/Archaeology/English/General/Japan

Jared Diamond on “The Japanese Race”

Posted on July 28, 2005 by tak / 20 Comments

At Savage Minds, an anthropology group blog that I contribute to, a heated debate has erupted over Jared Diamond‘s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Hu...

Books and Articles/English/General/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/War/Web Sites

Recent Links

Posted on July 27, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

These all deserve separate posts, but here are some links I found in the last few days that I wanted to write about but didn’t have time for (perhaps othe...

English/International Affairs/Japan/War

A Poll on U.S.-Japan Relations

Posted on July 24, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

Goyaboy, or “the binary identity fo Gerald Figal,” alerts us to the incredulity of the recent AP-Kyodo News poll meant to take the pulse of the U.S....

Books and Articles/Film/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political/War

Article Nine on Film

Posted on July 19, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

Kei Yamamoto, writing for the citizen newspaper JANJAN, has reviewed the film Japan’s Peace Constitution (邦題 『映画 日本憲法』). The film is directed by John Junk...

Archives/English/Gender/Japan/Memory/War

The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace

Posted on July 16, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

Following KML’s post about the new museum on sexual slavery that is reported to open on August 1, found some links that I thought might deserve a separate...

International Affairs/Japan/Okinawa/Politics

Sex, Lies, and Okinawa

Posted on July 15, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

For anyone interested in Okinawa and the history of journalism in Japan, David Jacobson over at Japan Media Review has recently reported on a new lawsuit by a j...

Japan/Law/Nationalism/Political/Politics

Akihito as the Sovereign of Japan?

Posted on July 9, 2005 by tak / 7 Comments

Asahi Shinbun reports that the LDP has accepted plans to push for changing the name “Self-Defense Force”(「自衛隊」) to “Self-Defense Military̶...

Intellectual/Japan/Politics/昭和

Post-Anpo Apostasy

Posted on July 7, 2005 by tak / 2 Comments

During my search for a short article on Anpo (the anti U.S.-Japan Security Treaty movement in 1960), Konrad mentioned that he would be interested in hearing abo...

English/Japan/Literature/Pedagogy/Religion

Oe and Millenarian Movements

Posted on July 7, 2005 by tak / 7 Comments

I have spent the last few days working on a syllabus for a course titled “Anthropology of Social Movements,” and I figure I could use some help from...

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