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Historiography/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/Politics/Postwar

Revisionism (History news round up I)

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but hopefully that will improve with the new year. To kick things off this year I thought I’d gather toget...

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...

1960s/Economic/Politics

“Mass-based dictatorship”? A little info on S. Korea’s welfare policies in the 1960s

Posted on July 27, 2006 by noja / 0 Comment

In South Korean academia, one of the most long-standing and productive discussions (I have been following it for around 3 years now, but it may have begun even ...

Current/Recent Events/English/Politics/War

Yasukuni: Why the Emperor Stopped Going

Posted on July 21, 2006 by K. M. Lawson

There have been two relatively important Japan history-related news items in the news of late. There have been revelations about US covert funding of Japanese p...

Current/Recent Events/Education/General/Japan/Law/Nationalism/Politics

Shades of Mori Arinori

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

Recently the Japanese Diet has been debating several competing bills to revise the Fundamental Education Law of 1947.  One of the most contested issues is an ef...

Korea/Nationalism/Politics

The use “chunghung”

Posted on March 1, 2006 by jiyulkim / 1 Comment

Does anyone have any thought or evidence on whether the use of chunghung (restoration/renovation/rejuvenation) during the Park Chung Hee years was generic or de...

Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/International Affairs/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics/昭和

Colonialogy

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I think we need a new word for the study of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial discourses, pro and con. Pro? Who’s in favor of it? Well, this ...

General/Intellectual/Politics/Textbooks

History, or politics by other means

Posted on January 22, 2006 by noja / 10 Comments

I would like to share my musings and solicit opinions on one issue I always was interested in – namely, to what degree the ways in which states attempt to...

Cultural/Economic/General/Korea/Military/Nationalism/North Korea/Politics

Thoughts on Yusin

Posted on January 21, 2006 by jiyulkim / 3 Comments

Readers here might be interested in giving thoughts about a query and my comment regarding Yusin on the Korean Studies Discussion List by Dr. Alon Levkowitz. Hi...

Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Politics/大正/明治

Semantics and History: Did Japan “Invade” Korea?

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Well, the obvious answer to that question is yes, but that’s not the invasion we’re talking about. Over on the Korea side, there’s a lively di...

China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/General/International Affairs/Japan/Nationalism/Politics

Hitler Watch: Koizumi

Posted on September 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Is Koizuimi Junichiro another Hitler? One former LDP’er thinks so, and Chinese academician Feng Zhaokui agrees [via]: Feng’s Fear History They both ...

English/General/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治

Who’s On Top?

Posted on September 17, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

This came across the H-Japan wires, and I was intrigued by both the project itself and the immense time-wasting potential of listmaking, so I wrote to Ms. Kim a...

China-Japan/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Translation/US-Japan/War

Yasukuni and Japanese Flags

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 5 Comments

Rod Wilson and I visited Yasukuni on August 15 to check out the right-wing festivities, which was a pretty…interesting…experience. It was everything...

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/Japanese/Memory/Politics/War/昭和

New Museum to Focus on Sexual Slavery

Posted on July 15, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 15 Comments

The Japan Times reports that there is to be a new museum, opening next month, which will focus on wartime sexual slavery. The museum is called “The Women&...

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