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Category Archives: culture
Book Announcement: Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps
Via UH Press. Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps Editor: Richard A. Pegg University of Hawai’i Press 2014 | 140 pages | 130 color illustrations Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-4765-4 | $40.00 BioMaps are the manifestation of an intellectual construct of … Continue reading
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Fun Link Friday: Ikuta Niyoko’s Geometric Sculptures
In this week’s Fun Link, relax by looking at the intricate laminated glass sculptures of Ikuta Niyoko. I am captivated by the complexity of light as it reflects, refracts, and passes through broken cross sections of plate glass. In 1980 … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society
Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society Based upon a survey of five Japanese faith-based volunteer groups, the book offers insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, faith, Japan, religion, society, volunteering, women, womens studies
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Fun Link Friday: Japanese Life in Lego
Last week we featured a Fun Link Friday of Suntory Whisky’s advertising through manufacturing high-tech 3-D ice cubes of fantastic things like the Golden Pavilion or Godzilla, but sometimes you need to appreciate the low-tech options, too. 🙂 At the … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Labour market deregulation in Japan and Italy
Labour market deregulation in Japan and Italy: Worker protection under neoliberal globalisation By Hiroaki Richard Watanabe Description: Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, economy, globalization, government, Italy, Japan, labor, labor market
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Fun Link Friday: Suntory’s 3-D printed ice cubes
As we start printing food, internal organs, and other serious items with great technological promise and implications for the future, let’s not forget that it’s the little things that count, like having a frozen ice cube shaped like Godzilla in your whiskey. TBWA\Hakuhodo … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-D printing, fun link friday, Japan, Suntory, technology, whiskey, whisky
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Book Announcement: From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735
From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, December 2014). “This magisterial work fills an important gap in contemporary scholarship about racial history and European perceptions of the Japanese during the age of maritime explorations, beginning with … Continue reading
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Fun Link Friday: Japan’s Cherry Blossoms in Years Gone By
Have the sakura bloomed where you are yet? Whether you’re still waiting on them or they’ve come and gone, check out this retrospective from The Wall Street Journal of cherry blossom and hanami photos from 1955 on.
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Book Announcement: Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia
Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia by Jiang Wu, Associate Profess, Department of East Asian Studies, The University of Arizona Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press … Continue reading
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Fun Link Friday: the art of kintsugi
While many people might think of a broken bowl or cracked ceramic pieces as beyond repair and having lost their beauty as perfect objects, other see opportunity for a different kind of aesthetic. Colossal featured an article last year on kintsugi 金継ぎ, or “gold joinery,” which … Continue reading
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Tagged art, ceramics, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese art, kintsugi
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 