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Category Archives: culture
Book Announcement: Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War Ethan Mark Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, history, Japan, Japanese history, Java, modern history, modern Japan, war, World War II
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Book Announcement: Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art
Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art Halle O’Neal In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O’Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the previous scholarship on these … Continue reading
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Tagged asian religion, bodies, book announcement, books, Buddhism, buddhist art, language, religion, religious studies
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Resource: The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue
Today’s online resource is The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue, a collaborative public history project and exhibition that addresses the fascinating history of Okinawan-American relations in the years following World War II. Based out of the University of California, Santa … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, history, Okinawa, okinawan history, photography, public history, resource, US history
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Book Announcement: The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture
The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture Dumas, Raechel This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book announcement, books, fiction, gender, gender studies, horror, Japanese culture, media, media studies
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Book Announcement: The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950
The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950, by Brian J. McVeigh, Bloomsbury Press, 2017. During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries the individual became the basic, self-contained unit of society whose interior life was increasingly privileged. This “inward turn” resonated with … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, history, Japan, Japanese history, psychology
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Fun Link Friday: Food Waste Tableware
Anyone who has the pleasure of working with me knows I take food waste and garbage sorting Very Seriously. I found this Design Boom article on Japanese designer Kosuke Araki, who creates series of tableware and vessels using daily food waste with the intention to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Design, food, food waste, Japan, Japanese culture, recycling
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Fun Link Friday: Japanese “tips”
Travelers to Japan are often surprised to discover that tipping at restaurants is not expected. So what is left behind after our meals at a restaurant? Starting in 2012, Yuki Tatsumi began to think about this question. Working as a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, everyday life, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese culture, sculpture
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Book Announcement: Penguin Book of Haiku
The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, haiku, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese poetry, japanese studies, literature, poetry, translation
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Resource: Metadatabase of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Nagasaki University Library maintains a collection of Japanese photographs from the Bakumatsu (1853 and 1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods that represent some of the earliest photographs of Japan as it transitioned from the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji state. Holding … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Bakumatsu, Bakumatsu period, culture, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese photography, meiji, Meiji period, photography, travel
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Book Announcement: The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan—Reader’s Edition
The Sarashina Diary A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader’s Edition) Sugawara no Takasue no Musume. Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō Columbia University Press https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sarashina-diary/9780231186773 A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on … Continue reading
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