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Tag Archives: Japanese history
Book Announcement: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives Sachi Schmidt-Hori In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received … Continue reading
Japan and East Asian Studies Podcasts
Let’s face it, there are a ton of podcasts out there on Japanese language, culture, history, current events, and Japan in general. Few of us have the time to dig through them all and sort out what’s what. The subgenres … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, interviews, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, japanese studies, media, podcasts, publications, research
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Resource: Japan Biographical Database
Today’s resource is the Japan Biographical Database. This bilingual, interactive database is a network studies project run by a research unit of the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo. Focusing on early modern Japan, the participants have spent years … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Exporting Japanese Aesthetics: Evolution from Tradition to Cool Japan
Exporting Japanese Aesthetics:Evolution from Tradition to Cool Japan EDITED BY TETS KIMURA & JENNIFER ANNE HARRIS Exporting Japanese Aesthetics brings together historical and contemporary case studies addressing the evolution of international impacts and influences of Japanese culture and aesthetics. The volume … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, book announcement, books, culture, Japan, Japanese aesthetics, Japanese culture, Japanese history
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Book Announcement: Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident Translated and with an introduction by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, early modern Japan, Edo period, Japan, Japanese history, religion, religious studies, translation
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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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Book Announcement: The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 Sidney Xu Lu This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, colonialism, empire, Japan, Japanese history, modern, modern Japan, modern Japanese history
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Book Announcement: That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao’s China
THAT DISTANT COUNTRY NEXT DOOR: POPULAR JAPANESE PERCEPTIONS OF MAO’S CHINA Erik Esselstrom Japan’s road to war in China in the 1930s–1940s is well known, as are the legacies of that conflict in the diplomatic disputes, territorial rows, and educational … Continue reading
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Tagged China, colonialism, diplomacy, empire, Japanese history, modern, modern Japan, modern Japanese history, politics, World War II, WWII
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