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Tag Archives: war
Book Announcement: Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan
Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan W. Puck Brecher About the book: The brutality and racial hatred exhibited by Japan’s military during the Pacific War piqued outrage in the West and fanned resentments throughout Asia. Public understanding of … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, modern, modern Japan, war
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Call for Papers: Verge AAS panel on Operations of Forgetting
Verge: Studies in Global Asias will be proposing a panel about the operations of forgetting in the Asia-Pacific region for AAS (Association for Asian Studies) in Toronto next year (March 16-19, 2017). For this panel, we solicit scholarship about the … Continue reading
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Tagged AAS, call for papers, forgetting, verge: studies in global asias, war, war memory
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Call for Papers: Contested Visions of Justice: Allied War Crimes Trials in a Global Context, 1943-1958
Conference: Contested Visions of Justice: Allied War Crimes Trials in a Global Context, 1943-1958 Venue: Boston College in Ireland, Dublin, 25-27 September 2015 Conveners: Franziska Seraphim, Boston College; Kerstin von Lingen, Heidelberg University; Wolfgang Form, Marburg University; Barak Kushner, Cambridge University … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College, call for papers, conference, Japan, war, war crimes, WWII
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Book Announcement: Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945
Via Stanford University Press. Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 Aaron Stephen Moore 2013, Available Now 328 pp. ISBN: 9780804785396 Cloth $55.00 ISBN: 9780804786690 E-book $55.00 The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945
Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013) For more information: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22812 Table of contents: http://www.sup.org/pages.cgi?isbn=0804785392&item=Contents_pages&page=1 The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, empire, history, ideology, Japan, Japanese history, technology, war, World War II
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Fun Link Friday: War Kimono
Cranes, carp, cherry blossoms…Zero fighters? I guarantee you haven’t seen kimono motifs like these before! Wolfgang Ruf of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, collects rare wartime kimono from roughly 1894-1942 with soliders, weapons, and military vehicles. Today’s fun link, “Kimonos reveal Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged fashion, fun link friday, history, Japan, Japanese art, kimono, Russo-Japanese War, Swissinfo, Switzerland, war, wartime motifs, Wolfgang Ruf, WWII
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Call for Papers: Enola’s Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb, an edited anthology of essays
This is a call for papers, for a new anthology tentatively titled Enola’s Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb. The anthology’s aim is to shed light on all genres of Japanese Cinema commercial, anime, pink, underground and its portrayal of … Continue reading
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Tagged atomic bombing, call for papers, cinema, film, Hiroshima, Japanese cinema, Japanese film, Nagasaki, war
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Funding: [general] Truman-Kauffman Research Fellowship
Truman-Kauffman Research Fellowship Applications are due December 1, 2012. Project Description The Truman Library Institute is pleased to add to its existing Research Grants Program an exciting new project – the Truman-Kauffman Research Program. Thanks to the generosity of the … Continue reading
Intensive Summer Course: HIROSHIMA and PEACE
Hiroshima City University accepting applications • Students from different countries come together for serious academic study and discussion, in English, of issues related to world peace. • The content is timely and important in the current world situation (e.g., nuclear … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-17: From enemies to allies
Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-17: From enemies to allies (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) Peter Berton (Author) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415598996/ Book Description One surprising outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was that, although Russia was humiliatingly defeated, by 1916 Russia and … Continue reading
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Tagged books, international relations, Japan, politics, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, war
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 