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Book Announcement: Media Convergence in Japan

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Paula

Media Convergence in Japan, co-edited with Patrick W. Galbraith  This collection of essays explores the convergences and divergences arising from the digital transition in Japanese media culture. The ebook version has been published for free and open access in PDF, ePub, and Mobi formats for download from the Internet … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Travis

A project many years in the works, University of Hawaiʻi Press is proud to announce (and I am excited to share with you all) the publication of Lina Terell & Bob Huey’s translation of Akamine Mamoru’s important monograph, 琉球王国～東アジアのコーナーストーン (Kôdansha, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Paula

Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education Peter Cave Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Fourteenth-century Voices 1 & 2

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Paula

FOURTEENTH-CENTURY VOICES I FOURTEENTH-CENTURY VOICES II Blue-Tongue Books Charley’s Forest, NSW, Australia All texts except Baishōron translated, introduced, and annotated by Royall Tyler. VOICES I From the Bamboo-View Pavilion: TAKEMUKI-GA-KI By Hino Nako (1310-1358) VOICES II Baishōron(ca. 1350), translated by Shuzo Uyenaka, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan

Posted on June 19, 2016 by LM

Via University of Washington Press. Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan PHILIP HU, RHIANNON PAGET, SEBASTIAN DOBSON, MAKI KANEKO, SONJA HOTWAGNER, AND ANDREAS MARKS paperback not available $49.95 HARDCOVER (9780295999814) TO BE PUBLISHED: November 2016 SUBJECT LISTING: Art … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Travis

Reiko Tomii, Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan, MIT Press, 2016. Description from the publisher: 1960s Japan was one of the world’s major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Science, Technology and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Paula

David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown, eds., Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) has just been released by Routledge Press. Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Cartographic Japan

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Travis

Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas (eds.), Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps, University of Chicago Press, 2016. From the publisher: Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Paula

Japan’s suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a “Suicide Nation”. This tendency causes … Continue reading →

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Free online course: Japanese Culture Through Rare Books

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Paula

A free online course on Japanese rare books will soon be available through Keio University! Click the link below to sign up and read more about it! Some information from the website is reproduced below. === https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/japanese-rare-books-culture This is an … Continue reading →

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