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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 but to try to write high quality papers.)
Libraries, books, articles and primary sources are, of [...]

Diet Ads

( Feminism and Japan )

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).

Left: I am guessing that the right is “before” and the left is [...]

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 Japanese women married Koreans and lost nationality) to North Korea in the late 1950s. The [...]

Some Bits and Pieces from Japanese High Police Records

( History and Japan and Korea and Military and Research )

Sorry for the long interval. I had to submit a proposal on this topic and my blogging could not catch up with my research.
I was going to blog about some interesting stuff I found in the primary sources. I was reading monthly Japanese High Police reports (特高月報, 特高外事月報) between 1936-1938 on domestic affairs to see [...]