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Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Japan Times article on Japan’s application to UNESCO to have 和食 [washoku, Japanese cuisine] declared an internationally recognized “intangible c...

Academia/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/平成

Old Myths, New Myths: Problems of Informed Punditry

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The Asia/Pacific Journal, aka Japan Focus, has a fascinating interview with Heinrich Reinfried, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University St. Gall...

Academia/Books and Articles/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/昭和

Feeling Like an Empire: Colonial Radicalization

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

What makes Louise Young’s Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism such a fascinating, troubling work is that she deta...

Nationalism/Teaching/大正/昭和

Teachers and National Ideologies

Posted on November 23, 2010 by sayaka / 3 Comments

I have been collecting and reading various materials that could potentially reveal how people lived in rural villages between the 1910s and 1940s. Village teach...

anniversaries/China/Chinese/Current Events/English/Events/Humor/Nationalism

PRC National Anthem

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on October 1st, my friend Carsey Yee has sent another video: The Two Chinese...

English/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/photography/昭和

Hirohito’s last birthday

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I’m almost done, I suppose, with the first phase of my image digitization and pedagogy project, namely scanning a significant chunk of my Japan slides and...

Academia/bibliography/Current/Recent Events/Economic/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Teaching

Adjusting to the new narrative

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My China-side colleague, Alan Baumler, noted that China seems to have supplanted Japan as the go-to model for economic development. This has, he says, required ...

China/China-Japan/Diaspora/Foreign Views/Imperialism/Japan/Nationalism

Imperial Visits and Attitudes

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I just learned of the Japanese Emperor and Empress’ visit to Hawai’i [via]. It’s not the first time that a member of the Japanese Imperial fam...

Cultural/Diaspora/General/International Affairs/Japan/Nationalism/US-Japan

Imperial Visits and Attitudes

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I just learned of the Japanese Emperor and Empress’ visit to Hawai’i [via]. It’s not the first time that a member of the Japanese Imperial fam...

Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Political/Politics/平成/昭和

ASPAC Blogging: Japan’s Political Present and Future

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My copanelists on Saturday were political scientists, and it was a good update for me on what what’s going on with Japan in the last ten years or so. R...

1960s/1970s/Art/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korean Propoganda Posters

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.

Archaeology/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Premodern/Science and Technology

Tomb Near Artifacts that Date to Himiko’s Purported Reign Dates Identified

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Am I the only person who had a bad reaction to the Tomb of legendary Japanese Queen Himiko found headlines I’ve been seeing? The article says Archaeologis...

1960s/1970s/General/Historiography/Korea/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Postwar

“Prosthetic Memories”

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Seungsook Moon at Japan Focus has an interesting historiographical essay about the contested life and legacy of Park Chung Hee, who led Korea through the 60s an...

Current/Recent Events/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Nationalism/Religion

Sumo and tradition

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

The NYTimes Lede blog [thanks, Mom!] linked Michael Phelps’ marijuana scandal to a scandal in Japanese sumo1 which has resulted in four retirements. They ...

1960s/1970s/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korea’s engagement with the world

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I remember the shocked look on my students’ faces fifteen years ago when I told them that we actually had no idea how decisions were made or leaders picke...

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