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English/General/Japan/Medieval

自己紹介: Thomas Ekholm

Posted on October 25, 2004 by Thomas Ekholm / 1 Comment

My name is Thomas Ekholm and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Göteborg (Gothenburg) University, Sweden. I have a masters degree in Japanese and equivalent of a...

English/Events

Capital and Water: The Role of Rivers in Tokyo City Planning, 1880s-1940s

Posted on October 20, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

One of our weblog’s authors, Roderick Wilson, is giving a talk this Friday in Tokyo at the Modern Japanese History Workshop. Since Rod is one of us, I jus...

English/Labor/大正/明治

Halting Speeches

Posted on October 20, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I will continue to post the odd passage I find here and there during my reading that I find particularly memorable. In Andrew Gordon‘s Labor and Imperial ...

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...

Archives/English/Web Sites

Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms

Posted on October 17, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The presentation I attended on the Japan Memory Project which I covered in my last posting also discussed another part of their institute’s online efforts...

Archives/English/Events/Web Sites

The Japan Memory Project

Posted on October 17, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

Three visiting scholars (Sakakibara Sayoko, Roy Ron, and Wakabayashi Haruko) from the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute gave a talk this w...

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...

English/Memory

Temporary Suspension of “The Country is Burning”

Posted on October 14, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

A comic series tracking the life of a bureaucrat in early Showa Japan has been suspended because of its September 16th and 22nd editions that contained descript...

English/Politics/大正

A Parliamentarian’s Weapon of Choice

Posted on October 7, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I am afraid that most of my postings for the foreseeable future will be snippets from the basic readings on modern Japanese history that are taking up much of m...

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...

English/General

Self Intro: Rod Wilson

Posted on September 13, 2004 by rod / 1 Comment

I am a graduate student in East Asian history at Stanford University and since the fall of 2003 a research student with the Architecture Department at Hosei Uni...

English/General

Self Intro: K. M. Lawson

Posted on August 30, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

My name is Konrad Mitchell Lawson and later this month I will be starting a PhD in history in the United States. I am interested in issues related to treason, t...

English/General

The Japan History Group Blog

Posted on August 30, 2004 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

Welcome to the Japan History Group Blog, one of three history group blogs which will kick off the new “Frog in a Well” project. On this blog a group...

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