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You know you're deep into procrastination mode when you start making these1) U Can't Touch This 2) I Like to Move It 3) Whoomp! There it is
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1/ In wartime Japan, maps were instrumental to planning and prosecuting the war in Asia.They were also rich in symbolism, signaling an expansion in the geographical consciousness of the Japanese
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1/ I hereby petition for a return to the sartorial standards of firefighters in Edo period Japan. A compilation of the coats worn by Edo firefighting brigades, each rich with
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1/ As @CaryKaracas and I have argued, maps were the lifeblood of the planning and prosecution of US Army Air Force raids against urban Japan. What I'm only now beginning
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A hunting map of the Japanese empire (1941), highlighting game locations in Japan, Korea, and Manchuria. A few thoughts: 1) It's hard to ignore the centrality of the Changbai Mountains
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1/ Mass incarceration and gerrymandering are both dire threats to America's democracy, but only today did I realize how intertwined they are. I honestly had no idea that the US
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1/ Herewith a short Fabian Drixler appreciation thread: There's no need to here recycle praise for Mabiki. It's a great book that everyone should read. Instead, I want to showcase the incredible
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A few of the more striking sketches from the North America volume of an early Meiji survey of world geography:1) A mining scene in California 2) The towering trees of
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A on a topic most Japan scholars takes entirely for granted: the preservation of documents, books, and other historical materials in the face of incendiary raids that laid waste to
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As some of you may know, Malcolm @Gladwell 's podcast just completed a four part deep dive on Curtis LeMay, napalm, and the firebombing of Tokyo. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/45-the-bomber-mafiaBook reviews are so twentieth
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For obvious reasons, California looms large in early Japanese accounts of trans-Pacific migration and engagement with the West. What, then, did Japanese migrants from the "green archipelago" (with a rich forestry
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Seeing as archival research is impossible for the foreseeable future, here's a tip for folks interested in the Korean War: thanks to an agreement w/ NARA, the Nat. Archives of
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