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August 5, 2022
Middlemen of Modernity
Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan
Christopher Craig
Hosted by
Ran Zwigenberg
Christopher Craig’s Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2021) is a thoroughly research and engaging study of the role of local elites …
Japanese Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Japan about their new books.
Japanese Studies
August 2, 2022
Sino-Japanese Reflections
Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh
Hosted by
Jingyi Li
Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh's edited volume Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity (de Gruyter, 2022) offers ten richly detailed case studies that …
Japanese Studies
August 1, 2022
Eavesdropping on the Emperor
Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan
Peter Kornicki
Hosted by
Jingyi Li
When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who interrogated them? When Japanese maps and plans …
Nordic Asia Podcast
July 22, 2022
Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
Sara Park
Hosted by
Duncan McCargo
Why does Japanese immigration policy have such a bad name? What are the historical origins of tight immigration policies? Where have these policies left immigrants of Korean descent, many of …
Japanese Studies
July 21, 2022
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
A Transnational History
Ethan Mark
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Shatrunjay Mall
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History (Bloomsbury, 2018) by Ethan Mark draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate …
Asian American Studies
July 15, 2022
Biotic Borders
Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950
Jeannie N. Shinozuka
Hosted by
Deidre Tyler
In the late nineteenth century, increasing traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a "biological yellow peril" when nursery stock and other agricultural products shipped from Japan …
On Religion
July 7, 2022
On 'Just Enough,' Oryoki, and Japanese Cooking
A Discussion with Gesshin Claire Greenwood
Gesshin Claire Greenwood
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Gesshin Claire Greenwood is the author of Bow First, Ask Questions Later and the popular blog That’s So Zen. She trained in Japanese Zen monasteries, including in the kitchen, for …
East Asian Studies
July 7, 2022
Japan Rearmed
The Politics of Military Power
Sheila A. Smith
Hosted by
John Traphagan
Today I talked to Sheila A. Smith about her book Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (Harvard UP, 2019). Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and …
Japanese Studies
July 6, 2022
Animal Care in Japanese Tradition
A Short History
W. Puck Brecher
Hosted by
Jingyi Li
In Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History (Association for Asian Studies, 2022), Brecher offers a brief overview of animals in Japanese culture and society from ancient times to …
East Asian Studies
June 29, 2022
Carbon Technocracy
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Victor Seow
Hosted by
Nathan Hopson
Victor Seow’s Carbon Technocracy: Energy regimes in Modern East Asia (U Chicago Press, 2021) is an account of the modern “world that carbon made” through the case study of the …
Japanese Studies
June 27, 2022
Japanese Role-Playing Games
Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
Hosted by
Jingyi Li
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon's edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant …
Nordic Asia Podcast
June 24, 2022
Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
Kamila Szczepanska and Silja Keva
Hosted by
Ari-Joonas Pitkänen
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has dramatically affected international politics, and the effects are also felt in East Asia. We have heard a lot about China’s position regarding the war, but …
South Asian Studies
June 21, 2022
The 24th Mile
An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma
Tehmton S. Mistry
Hosted by
Shatrunjay Mall
The story of India and Indians in World War II has been overshadowed by other historical events of the 1940s, a busy decade that included such historical watersheds as Indian …
On Religion
June 20, 2022
On Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
A Discussion with Jolyon Thomas
Jolyon Thomas
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dr. Jolyon Thomas is the author of Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan, out now from the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Thomas is assistant professor of religious studies …
Asian American Studies
June 17, 2022
Shadow Traces
Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
Elena Tajima Creef
Hosted by
Deidre Tyler
Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. In Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic …
East Asian Studies
June 15, 2022
The Musha Incident
A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan
Michael Berry
Hosted by
Li-Ping Chen
On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a …
Japanese Studies
June 13, 2022
Designing Modern Japan
Sarah Teasley
Hosted by
Nathan Hopson
Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, focusing on continuities and disruptions within communities and practices …
Nordic Asia Podcast
June 3, 2022
The Forgotten Children of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Kanako Kuramitsu
Hosted by
Satoko Naito
Disparaged as "Japanese devils" and "half-breed," some children with Chinese mothers and Japanese fathers born during the Second Sino-Japanese war long looked to Japan as their true homeland. Learn about …
Japanese Studies
June 2, 2022
Dream Super-Express
A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train
Jessamyn Abel
Hosted by
Nathan Hopson
Jessamyn Abel’s Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train (Stanford UP, 2022) is a history of Japan’s famous super-express (shinkansen) and “the bullet train imaginary.” …
SSEAC Stories
May 26, 2022
Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
A Conversation with Tom Baudinette
Tom Baudinette
Hosted by
Natali Pearson
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers across East and Southeast Asia have found themselves turning to Thai soap operas known as “Boys Love series” as a source of …
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