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Thanksgiving Vacation and Homework

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I went over to the Waikoloa Hilton. My son loves the boats and trams, and there’s nothing like watching dolphins ...

Academia/Archaeology/Art/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/English/Gender/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Teaching

History Carnival #38

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 9 Comments

“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...

Art/Cultural/General/Japan/Translation

Eloquent oddities

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There aren’t a lot of good Japanese-themed quizzes out there…. You Are a Sarariiman! Or “salaryman.” Whatever. Treadmill off, treadmill ...

Academia/Art/China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Media/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Web Sites/明治

China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT

Posted on April 30, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...

Archaeology/Art/Colonial/Cultural/English/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism

Monumental Repatriation

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monument was ...

Archaeology/Art/Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Museums

Monumental Repatriation

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monumen...

Archaeology/Art/English/Gender/General/Korea/Korea-Japan

Overreading Erotica

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

There’s a lot of presentist fallacies and overdrawn conclusions — just because a society has a reputation for sexual restraint doesn’t mean th...

Art/Cultural/English/Film/Gender/General/Japan/大正/昭和

Because we must…

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

If it isn’t ninja, it’s geisha. Yes, the weekend following the 64th anniversary of Pearl Harbor is the perfect time for “spectacularly unfortu...

Art/Korea/Web Sites

Finding Korea Related Images Online

Posted on November 9, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

There are lots of great places online to find images related to Korea. While I’m still looking for a good website which compiles links to some of the many...

Art/Web Sites

Searching Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Posted on September 28, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

“The Humane Great Japanese Cross Medical Corps Tending to the Injured in the Russo-Japanese War” (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) The Boston Museum of F...

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...

Art/China-Japan/Education/English/Gender/Japan/Korea-Japan/Law/Memory/Nationalism/Politics/大正/明治/昭和

Updates: Textbook and Constitutional revision

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Tri-national textbook I wrote about here has been published. The South Koreans, at least, are taking it pretty seriously [via Ralph Luker], with national di...

Academia/Art/Cultural/Education/English/General/Japan/Medieval/幕末

Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading over Fukuzawa’s Autobiography for class, I ran across a nice passage: However much we studied, our work and knowldge had practically no connection...

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