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Author: K. M. Lawson

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The Kempeitai studies Anthropology

Posted on June 7, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Our friends at Savage Minds often post on issues related to anthropologists at war. Today I came across an example of an anthropologist at war in a 1942 diary b...

US-Japan/War

Nisei and the POWs

Posted on June 1, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I just want to take a moment to share a photo that I think captures an interesting and perhaps a bit of an awkward moment. The photo is taken from a 1946 report...

Occupation/US-Japan/昭和

The Hicswa Court-martial: a Double Murder in Nara, 1945

Posted on February 9, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

The US occupation of Japan after World War II was not, relatively speaking, a violent one and though the behavior of occupation troops in Japan did lead to many...

1980s/English/Korea/Memory/Politics

Police Torture in Egypt and 1987 Korea

Posted on February 7, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

Historical comparisons can open up new exciting ways of understanding events that have become trapped by a dominant narrative, or proposing solutions to pressin...

Academia/Korea/North Korea

The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea

Posted on December 13, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

This is the last of three postings in this series. Read the first posting here for an explanation of the idea of the “North flank guard” and the sec...

Academia/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/US-Korea

The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange

Posted on December 10, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

This is the second of a three part series. Read the first posting here. On November 28, a South Korean artilleryman mistakenly fired a single 155mm shell north ...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/US-Korea/Web Sites

The North Flank Guard

Posted on December 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

In politics, a direct attack is not always the most effective. One way to proceed is to target someone or something that is seen to represent a more extreme, a ...

Propaganda/US-Japan/War/昭和

License to Hunt Japanese

Posted on November 10, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

John Dower’s book War Without Mercy does a great job at talking about, and showing images of the many ways that race played a role in the propaganda and d...

General

Shipping Designators for Japanese Cities

Posted on November 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

There are two creative processes that I find particular mysterious. Coming up with the names for musical bands…and shipping designators. Here for example,...

Communism/Occupation/Popular Culture/US-Japan

The Red Flag Song

Posted on October 30, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

On May 1, 1946 Oscar Olander, a former commissioner of the Michigan State police, entered Tokyo early on the morning of “Food May Day” as part of hi...

China/Libraries/Movies

Bruce Willis and Harvard Yenching

Posted on October 29, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I dropped by Harvard-Yenching library this afternoon to pick up some books requested from the depository and look up a few more from my todo list. I noted down ...

1945-1950/Food/Korea/US-Korea

Candy and School Lunches

Posted on October 27, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

In the New York Times yesterday there was an interesting article entitled, “Is Candy Evil or Just Misunderstood?” In particular it discussed the rel...

China/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

Sweaty Traitors – Character Simplifications That Just Weren't Meant to Be

Posted on July 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 8 Comments

I had an old instructor of Chinese language many years ago who took every opportunity to pick fun at the evil Reds on the mainland. I think he fled China in 194...

Korea/Korea-China/Korean War

An Interpreter’s Tale

Posted on July 6, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

I have been collecting notes for a study of the treason of interpreters. This may not make it into my dissertation, but I find the topic fascinating. In the his...

China/China-Russia/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)

The Most Effective Kind of Education

Posted on July 4, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

While there are many historical problems worthy of exploring in the study of history, I personably believe that one of the most important is an attempt to under...

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