I created a deep linked table of contents (titles searchable) for the over 50 issues of "Tokyo Gazette" (1937-1942) that can be found on @archive.org - great source for students to critique: froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette/ Done with major LLM help and OCR, main titles checked over manually. #japan
Meanwhile, "Manchoukuo Goes Yo Yo" (from Manchuria Daily News March 22, 1933). "Anything to keep the cyclist occupied is regarded as a good sign."
Nice before and after between this 12 Jan 1933 Trans-Pacific weekly article "Japanese Army Loves Piece" a few weeks before the conquest of Rehe (Jehol), and 9 Mar piece, the month it will be annexed as part of Japanese occupied Manchukuo.
Thanks to @fearandsequins.bsky.social for passing on this interesting post from January 2024. Particularly interested in its findings around Green OA. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Nice that the complete works of Yanagita Kunio are all openly available for download on the National Diet Library: 定本柳田国男集 dl.ndl.go.jp/search/searc...
The list of his works made available by the Japanese equivalent of Project Gutenberg, 青空文庫 is also growing: www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/...
Great to hear!
It seems the repository may be having issues, see if this direct link works for you? research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/ha...
Not sure why, I was able to download the pdf yesterday from here: hdl.handle.net/10023/33500
I think something may have gone wrong with the link, will try again: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
Congratulations to Valerie Cranmer for the acceptance of her PhD dissertation on the infamous 防疫給水部, “Enabling abuse: the Imperial Japanese Army’s epidemic prevention and water purification organisation and its place in global military history” research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...
For anyone who loves maps, two sources of modern East Asia related maps with amazing collections that I only recently explored:
The UN Archives in Geneva archives.ungeneva.org/east-asia-2
国際日本文化研究センタ lapis.nichibun.ac.jp/chizu/index....
Nice historical resource put together by students at Georgetown: Japan in Korea, Korea in Japan storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d063...
I've been to the past few NarraScope narrative games conferences, and they're great. Great size, great talks, great people, great networking!
TIL, if I understand this correctly, in 1937 the Japanese company we now know as Nissan bore the name "Manchurian Heavy Industry Development Corporation" (満洲重工業開発株式会社) and it moved its corporate headquarters to Japanese occupied Xinjing (Changchun).
And lots downloadable from NDL in English too, such as:
1943 Nippon Today & Tomorrow dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1112291/...
or the massive 1943 edition of "Glimpses of East Asia" (東亜大観) dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1028324/... by the N.Y.K. shipping company
No shortage of Japanese wartime (propaganda) periodicals available in English for students to explore as (challenging) primary sources:
Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
archive.org/search?query...
Contemporary Japan 1941-5
froginawell.net/frog/sources...
Enjoyed browsing this wonderful online exhibition:
Unpinning History: Japanese Posters in the Age of Commercialism, Imperialism, and Modernism
scalar.usc.edu/works/unpinn...
Not sure if this is real but certainly a scene to represent our times.
Approximately five years ago, I weighed in on an academic controversy. Chaos ensued. At the height of the insanity, very angry people kept on sending me a US military document from 1944. I wrote an article about the infamous document, its context, and its afterlife. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Just added the newly created @studiesonasia.bsky.social to @jppinfo.bsky.social's starter pack of Japan & Asian Studies Institutions/Organizations! go.bsky.app/H54gyeg
We love publicly accessible collections!
Interesting mixed medium approach to this Asahi feature on opium and Japanese occupied Manchuria: www.asahi.com/special/manc...
Oh, and created a digital browsable version of Gunnar Skadberg's book "Historien om Sunde", an old history of my childhood neighborhood in Stavanger, Norway: gunnarskadberg.net/bok/historie...
Some of the fun digital projects worked on this year:
Chinese Literature Magazine Index
froginawell.net/chinese-lite...
Re-design of Sino-Japanese Studies website:
chinajapan.org
Chinese Periodical Translation Project
baokan.pages.dev
Five Korean Colonial Period Periodicals
yeoksayeou.github.io
My department is hiring an associate professor in contemporary Chinese politics. Come and join me in Oslo! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
NEW! Open access co-authored essay on the Corpus of Early #Medieval Latin #Medicine and some things we have learned. Enjoy!
#medievalsky
brill.com/view/journal...
As UKRI explores using LLMs to review grants, it's a good time to revisit Bryan Wilder's excellent blog post.
There are a lot of naive reasons to oppose AI review ("you'll never automate human intuition!"). But there are also good reasons, including the *load-bearing role of human disagreement.*
