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Opportunities for Scholars, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Paula

Location:  New Jersey, United States The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Scholars from around the world come to the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: An Introduction to Japanese Pro Wrestling

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dave K.

Hello, everyone! Before I begin this guest post about professional wrestling (aka puroresu, or puro for short) in Japan, let me address two things right off the bat. 1) Yes, pro wrestling is fake. It’s a big sweaty oily series … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Sex in Japan’s Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Paula

Bill Mihalopoulos London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011 ISBN-10: 1848932014 ISBN-13: 978-1848932012 http://www.pickeringchatto.com/nationbuilding Based on archival research undertaken in Japan and Britain, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers: Japanese Cities in Global Networks

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Paula

2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) NY, Feb 24-28 Organizers: Carola Hein (Bryn Mawr College), Paul Waley (University of Leeds) and Cary Karacas (City University New York) In recent years there has been a revival of … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the People”

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Paula

Now available from Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, as the second title in their New Studies of Modern Japan series. http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739146009 Hard cover ISBN: 978-0-7391-4600-2, $75. Soft cover ISBN: 978-0-7391-4601-9, $29.95. The first complete narrative of the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Digital Gallery of World Picture Books

Posted on June 3, 2011 by tnguyen3729

Are you suffering from Peter Pan syndrome and have a love of picture books? Are you a parent burdened by the fact that your local library doesn’t have many children’s books in other languages? Do you just have a penchant … Continue reading →

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Call for Applications: Translating Asia: Studying China in Imperial Japan, 1895-1936

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Paula

The Department of History at the Free University of Berlin (Prof. Sebastian Conrad) is inviting applications for a graduate student with the aim of pursuing a Ph.D. in the project Translating Asia: Studying China in Imperial Japan, 1895-1936. Positions will … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Andreas Marks. Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Paula

This announcement is actually from some time back, but it got lost in my files! Still, this book looks to be a unique resource so it’s definitely worth posting up here. — http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=42855 Japanese woodblock prints exemplified by such iconographic … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: World Digital Library

Posted on May 20, 2011 by tnguyen3729

Are you constantly berated by professors to use primary resources for your paper instead of general documents found from a Google search the night before it’s due? (We can tell. Trust us.) Are you a cultural history junkie? Do you have a … Continue reading →

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Conference Announcement: “The Early Modern ‘Medieval’: Reconstructing Japanese Pasts”

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Paula

General announcement aside, this looks like an *amazing* conference (although as a medievalist and a future PhD student at Michigan, I’m a little biased…). Be sure to save the date! — Location: Michigan League, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, … Continue reading →

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