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A curated feed for those conducting research in or on Japan & for all who have an (academic) interest in Japan. To make sure your posts get in, you may use 🗾📚 or the hashtag #aozora (meaning bluesky)
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The most-liked posts we have captured from Researching Japan. Links go to the original on Bluesky.
No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form…
Yeah, gonna go ahead here and pull my "I have a history PhD" rank and say that you need to get fairly into the weeds before the Russo-Japanese War is likely to be covered in any depth. It's going to get name-checked in a 20th century worl…
A Japanese improvement (a really good one) on Paxlovid. I am so grateful for non-US research right now.
Gallipoli dissertation chapter is final complete. Now I can finally move on to serious work on Imperial Japanese amphibious warfare.
It is worth noting 1) there are very few full-time Asian staff remaining at the art trade publications and 2) @dexdigi.bsky.social is the best person to write about Yayoi Kusama's legacy, having interviewed her in Japanese, he has a PhD in…
Japanese streamer Ainosuke was banned from Kick for 999 years for climbing a grave in Tokyo. JP social media is aghast - not at the disrespect, but due to the grave he picked: Masakado-zuka, resting place of rebel warrior Taira no Masakado…
WHAT DO YOU MEAN KENNY OMEGA CAME OUT TO "YOU SAY RUN" FROM MY HERO ACADEMIA WITH THE JAPANESE VA OF ALL MIGHT DOING THE MONOLOGUE????? #AEWALLIN
imagining being Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the most handsome actors in Japanese Cinema, and seeing my face on the top left of the poster and being like ahhhh. huh. so that's what we're going with. ok. no I don't want a copy but thank you.
One rampant piece of disinformation in Japan holds that foreigners (the bogeyman is usually Chinese buyers) are buying up property at an alarming rate. Meiji University prof Nozawa Chie examined 709 luxury condo units in Tokyo and Osaka. H…
Like her contemporary, Mary Cassatt, Lilla Cabot Perry was instrumental in introducing Impressionism to America as well as to Japan; her husband Thomas Sargeant Perry, a renowned professor of 18thC English literature (here in Lilla's portr…
I've finally learned enough Japanese to where I feel kind of comfortable watching anime in Japanese without subtitles. My current goal is to rewatch all of My Hero Academia by the time I go to Japan in January.
I refer a lot to Japan as a reference point because Japan of the 1990s is a very good case study of what this world looks like www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/...
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