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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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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…
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…
Taira no Masakado's vassals are rumored to be buried at Yawata no Yabushirazu in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. That spot is ALSO regarded as cursed, as we discussed in our roundup of locations in Japan you'd best steer clear of: buff.l…
Locals have long held that the resting place of Taira no Masakado's head is cursed. Japan built a temporary Ministry of Finance there after the Kanto Earthquake. A string of mysterious deaths ensued, and Finance Minister Hayami Seiji himse…
(Point of order: Taira no Masakado's grave appears unharmed by Ainosuke's stunt. He could potentially face charges under Article 188 of Japan's penal code for public disrespect toward a grave or place of worship. For now, only his reputati…
Hi, I might try this out for real... I'm a queer feminist studies scholar who works on Japanese women writers & girls' culture (manga! cuteness!); transnational Asian contexts via Jp-, Ch-, Eng-lang flows of theories + activisms; and crip…
ill do my dragon quest research and half of this is "btw this never released outside japan" or "this got a later version! that never released outside japan." & the reasons are roughly "squeenix didnt wanna gamble bc dragon quest didnt sell…
Haven't finished this video yet, but seems like a well researched, refreshing take on not defining jrpgs by nationality, but design ideals(like salmon sushi, getting japan into rpgs was initially enthusiastic foreign lobbyists, but they to…
A Japanese streamer filmed himself mooning and humping the grave of Tokyo's god of wrath. You can learn more about Taira no Masakado and how the streamer is absolutely fucked by reading my article: www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_cult...
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Looking forward to this: ONLINE ROUNDTABLE Modern Japanese Literary Studies Hosted by Il Giappone. Studi e Ricerche REGISTRATION forms.cloud.microsoft/e/5cSq6CFDqs
Thank you to Evan Dawley for bringing Fang Yu Hu’s Good Wife, Wise Mother and Geographies of Gender together in his review for The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/pub/263/arti...
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