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Tag Archives: history
Book Announcement: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea by David Fedman Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, colonial Japan, environment, environmental history, history, Japan, modern Japan
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Book Announcement: American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan
American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan Elisheva A. Perelman Tuberculosis ran rampant in Japan during the late Meiji and Taisho years (1880s–1920s). Many of the victims of the then incurable disease were young female workers from the rural areas, … Continue reading
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Tagged disease, history, Japan, medicine, modern Japan, science
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Fun Link Friday: Japanese currency redesigns
What’s on your country’s money? After traveling overseas, I always come back to the US thinking about how boring our own bills seem! And it appears that Japan is putting even more thought into new and exciting illustrations for their … Continue reading
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Tagged currency, fun link friday, history, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, money
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Book Announcement: Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
DEFAMILIARIZING JAPAN’S ASIA-PACIFIC WAR Edited by W. Puck Brecher and Michael W. Myers This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Japan, Japanese history, modern history, modern Japan, Pacific War, war, World War II, WWII
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Book Announcement: The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy
The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy By: Yuichiro Shimizu Translator: Amin Ghadimi What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats”, but until … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, bureaucracy, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, modern Japanese history
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OUR Shurijo Shuri Castle Digital Reconstruction
As many know by now, Shuri Castle in Okinawa, an important piece of Ryukyu cultural heritage, suffered a devastating fire on October 31st 2019. As ongoing dialogues continue about how and when the reconstruction will take place, over two dozen … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, digital preservation, history, Okinawa, ryukyu, Shuri castle
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Book Announcement: Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan
AGENTS OF WORLD RENEWAL: THE RISE OF YONAOSHI GODS IN JAPAN Takashi Miura This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867), a … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, gods, history, Japan, Japanese culture, kami, religious studies
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Book Announcement: Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives By Gwyn McClelland On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Catholic, history, Japanese history, memory, modern Japan, modern Japanese history, Nagasaki, war, World War II, WWII
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Book Announcement: Law, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936
Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936 Ricky W. Law Book website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/transnational-nazism/3A72AC2415A209D3ACF3C934A1740DD5 In 1936, Nazi Germany and militarist Japan built a partnership which culminated in the Tokyo-Berlin Axis. This study of interwar German-Japanese relations is the first to … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace
Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing versions of the pre-imperial past and project … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, castles, heritage, heritage politics, history, Japan, Japanese castles, modern Japan
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