@shatrunjaymall
History PhD Candidate, UW-Madison. Former visiting research fellow, Waseda University. Writing a PhD dissertation on Pan-Asianism and Indo-Japanese connections from 1900 to the late 1950s. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
www.bbc.com/news/videos/... This story from last week of Thai police going undercover as a lion dance troupe to catch a burglar was hilarious! It sounded to me like a story straight out of an โAdventures of Tintinโ comic book!
After a 2.5 year hiatus, I have published a new interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! I interviewed Bo Tao about his new biography of Kagawa Toyohiko, the "Gandhi of Japan" and a major early 20th century Christian activist & intellectual. newbooksnetwork.com/cooperative-...
I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social
the best way to encourage students to resist the temptation of ChatGPT is to help them feel like real writers & take pride in their voice. I tell my students to start writing โmorning pagesโโthree handwritten pages on anything they want to write about.
I am so sad! One of my favourite actors, Patricia Routledge, who played Hyacinth Bucket in the 1990s British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances has passed away! ๐ญ ๐ข
Rescuers actively looking for the man
Friend describes where man entered the woods
Friends turn around as man calls
"I just got back"
Friends & authorities in Makkari, Hokkaido were looking for an 87yo man who went missing while foraging for mushrooms. While Fuji News was interviewing his friends, the man emerged from the woods: "Hey guys, sorry."
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Hahaha. That is indeed a unique torii, to say the least!
New York Times article with the headline โwhen Iโm mistakenly put on an email chain, should I hit reply all asking to be removed?โ The article simply says no.
Nine years later, still one of the best NYT articles.
The Shaker population has risen by 50%: www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
Intriguing Japanese article about non-American Allied forces in Japan during the post-war occupation of the country. South Asian troops, with origins in India, Pakistan & Nepal, were posted in Okayama prefecture from 1946 to 1948, among British Commonwealth forces. newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2...
After much speculation, Fleetwood Macโs Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announced the reissue of โBuckingham Nicks,โ more than 50 years after the release of their only full-length album as a duo.
I am distressed at the rise of Sanseitล and wonder what itโll mean for the possibility of marriage equality in the short-term to medium-term
A photograph of Rash Behari Bose and his Japanese family, on his return to Japan in 1944 after passing on the baton of leadership of the Indian National Army to Subhas Chandra Bose. I believe Rash Behari Boseโs daughter, Tetsuko, and parents-in-law Sลma Aizล and Sลma Kokko are both in the picture.
Their sub-channel appears to have gotten a lot of attention though! Hundreds of thousands of views, and interviews and exchanges with popular influencers and politicians from allied or rival parties. youtube.com/@sub_komei?s...
The success of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should have been celebrated in India, but the fact that it was largely ignored tells you how small the country has become under a bigoted "India First" government.
m.thewire.in/article/comm...
Statement by the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) requesting that the National Diet Library of Japan expand its Digital Document Delivery Service to users overseas.
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When it comes to employment prospects, majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperform some STEM-based counterparts, according to a recent analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Pope Francis waves to a large crowd of people, some of whom are waving Cuban flags or holding up their phones to take photos. Photo credit: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the churchโs future was rooted.
See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ
Pope Francis waving and smiling. Text reads: "1936-2025. Pope Francis." Photo credit: Zach Gibson/The New York Times
Pope Francis died at 88, the Vatican announced Monday, ending a pontificate that sought to reshape the Roman Catholic Church into a more inclusive institution. Cardinals will now decide whether to continue his approach or restore more doctrinaire leadership.
Follow live updates: nyti.ms/42RZB9n
It was wonderful to meet Professor Prasenjit Duara and fascinating to listen to and learn from his most recent research on global environmental movements in the Mekong river valleys in China and mainland Southeast Asia.
What a disappointed professor would say to the sibling of a recalcitrant and unproductive PhD student. They havenโt written their thesis! They donโt have an argument (thesis)!
DNA evidence of Tang dynasty cats www.livescience.com/animals/dome...
@liewzh.bsky.social
I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to attend the AAS Conference in Columbus! Iโm very glad with how my panel on transnational anticolonialism in Asia came together. I am grateful to my panel chair Dr. Cindy Ewing & panel organizer Zhen Hao Liew as well as co-panelists Muhammad Suhail & Mahia Bashir.
"Danylo Yavhusishyn arrived in Japan in April 2022 as a teenage refugee from the war in Ukraine, unable to speak a word of the language and uncertain how long he would be separated from his family.
This weekend, the 20-year-old will make his debut in the top division (...) of sumo wrestling"
Email sent to FFSP.
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.
