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Tag Archives: Japanese history
Book Announcement: Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647)
Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647) Edited by Alexandra Curvelo & Angelo Cattaneo This volume presents comprehensive research on how southern European Catholics and the Japanese confronted each other, interacted and mutually experienced religious … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha Robert A. Jacobs In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Cold War, dislocation, Fukushima, hibakusha, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern, modern Japan, nuclear
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Book Announcement: Narratives Without Guilt: Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility
Narratives Without Guilt: Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility Frank Jacob During the Second World War Japanese soldiers committed several different war crimes, including the kidnapping and raping of women or the mistreatment of POWs. In relation to the … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan Garrett L. Washington Christians have never even constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happened despite the Tokugawa … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, church, government, history, Japan, Japanese history, Japanese society, meiji, politics, prewar, prewar Japan, religious studies
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Book Announcement: Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Gas Mask Nation Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan Gennifer Weisenfeld A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, empire, history, Japanese culture, Japanese history, visual culture, war, WW2, WWII
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Book Announcement: Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Correspondence of Warlords, Tea Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats Morgan Pitelka, Reiko Tanimura, Takashi Masuda Cultural historians Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura partner with one of Japan’s premier experts in calligraphy and letter … Continue reading
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Tagged aristocrats, book announcement, books, epistolary culture, Japan, Japanese history, letters, premodern Japan, tea, translation, Zen
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Book Announcement: The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory Kevin Blackburn “Comfort women” or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War, and has become the term … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcements, comfort women, empire, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern history, Singapore
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Book Announcement: Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age
Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age Edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual “imprints,” traces holding … Continue reading
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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: Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku
Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku Ian Reader and John Shultz The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan’s fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, pilgrimage, religion, Shikoku
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