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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 ...

Academia/Christianity/Conferences/English/Gender/Historiography/Korea/Korea-China/Late Chosŏn/Religion

Korean (Gender) Studies at ASPAC

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

In spite of the lovely Korean Studies Center which headquartered the conference, ASPAC 2007 didn’t have a lot of Korean content. In fact, with the excepti...

Religion/Web Sites

Encyclopedia of Shinto

Posted on June 6, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I was just catching up on my reading of H-Japan postings, when I came across an announcement that I thought might be worth sharing with those who don’t su...

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...

Christianity/Korea/Museums/Religion

Museum: The Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University

Posted on July 28, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

In my constant search for quiet, smoke-free, and affordable coffee shops to study in, I recently came upon the Starbucks near Soongsil University (숭실대학교), which...

General/Korea/Koryŏ/Religion

Bugs, beetles and worldviews

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Remco Breuker / 8 Comments

Having been temporarily expelled from my office because of the presence of beetles that merrily eat through the wooden ceiling beams, I had to think of an entry...

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...

Archaeology/Cultural/English/Japan/Religion/Web Sites

The Lost Tribe

Posted on August 7, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

Ralph Luker sent me a link which I’d seen before, but lost: Arimasa Kubo’s “Israelites Came To Ancient Japan” pages. It’s a great ...

English/Japan/Literature/Pedagogy/Religion

Oe and Millenarian Movements

Posted on July 7, 2005 by tak / 7 Comments

I have spent the last few days working on a syllabus for a course titled “Anthropology of Social Movements,” and I figure I could use some help from...

China-Japan/Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval/Religion

The Gateless Gate Online

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Here is the gateway to The Gateless Gate. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. But it’s a real treasure of a document, and a very nicely done site. Granted, mu...

Academia/Books and Articles/English/Intellectual/International Affairs/Japan/Religion

Japan’s contribution to nihilistic Islamism

Posted on December 27, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The AHA’s flagship journal American Historical Review doesn’t run Japanese articles all that often and, to be honest, interesting ones even more rar...

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