Monthly Archives: April 2008

April 24, 2008
11:34 am
by: Sayaka

Professorship

I am in the middle of writing seminar papers, and for some obscure reason, I am wholeheartedly trying to meet one of my new-year resolutions, which is to write a paper that is truly publishable. (Not necessarily to publish it … Continue reading →

Posted in My Grad School Life

April 19, 2008
5:39 am
by: Sayaka

Diet Ads

Diet product advertisements are everywhere. As summer approaches, we see them even more often. These are the ones I found on Facebook recently: Now. Let’s compare them with what I found at Mixi (a popular social networking site in Japan). … Continue reading →

Posted in Japan

April 11, 2008
10:58 pm
by: Sayaka

Emotional Commitment to the Subjects of Research

Did anyone read Morris-Suzuki’s “Exodus to North Korea” yet? I read it in a seminar on modern Korean history. She discovers from Red Cross archives in Geneva the well-calculated scheme (mostly by Japanese leaders) behind the repatriation of Koreans (including … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic, History, My Grad School Life