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Tag Archives: history
Book Announcement: The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, book announcement, books, history, meiji, Meiji Japan, modern Japan, modernity, visual culture
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Book Announcement: Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan Sherzod Muminov The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar Japan. In … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, history, Japan, Japanese history, Manchukuo, modern, modern history, modern Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
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Book Announcement: Samurai: A Very Short Introduction
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction Michael Wert The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were … Continue reading
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Tagged early modern Japan, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, premodern Japan, samurai, warrior history, warriors
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Book Announcement: Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture Hanno Jentzsch Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural cooperatives, agriculture, history, Japan, modern Japan, policy, reform
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Book Announcement: Oishii: The History of Sushi
Oishii: The History of Sushi Eric C. Rath Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods—but they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food history, food studies, history, Japanese food, sashimi, sushi
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Book Announcement: Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration Mark R. Mullins Although religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic “religions of the book,” this study examines the emergence of a fundamentalism rooted in the Shinto tradition … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, history, Japan, modern, nationalism, politics, Yasukuni, Yasukuni Shrine
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Book Announcement: Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930
Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 Author: William Puck Brecher Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, early modern Japan, education, history, Japanese history
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Fun Link Friday: Pixel Animation Battle of Sekigahara
Pixel art has been around for decades, and whether you’re playing a video game or enjoying some 8-bit nostalgia of daily life in Japan, it’s always a joy. A couple of weeks ago Spoon & Tamago featured the work of … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D modeling, art, fun link friday, history, Japanese art, Japanese history, medieval, medieval Japan, pixel art, technology
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Book Announcement: More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan
More Than Medals A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan Dennis J. Frost How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been attracting the best … Continue reading
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Tagged disability, disability studies, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, Olympics, paralympics, postwar Japan, sports
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Resource: Bodies and Structures
This week I’m featuring a shorter resource post on the site Bodies and Structures, which is a collaborative research and teaching platform built by David Ambaras (North Carolina State University) and Kate McDonald (UC Santa Barbara) on spatial histories of … Continue reading