You grade sixty tests, and what do you get? Three months older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me, cause I can't go! I owe book orders to the campus bookstore…. *** Books that still need to be written about Meiji Japan1 : A good comprehensive history of the Meiji era2 A good social history of the post-abolition [...]...

After creating an OS X dashboard widget to converting Korean 檀紀 years into to western years, it was only a matter of time before another moment of distraction got me to playing with the idea of creating widgets for converting Japanese and Chinese calendars. After a long day of reading about US rice control policies [...]...

Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as "newly discovered" photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. Over the last few days, after the pictures were reported by HNN, the Huffington Post, and Wired, among others, members of the Japanese studies community took a closer look and began to doubt. [...]...

Some great bargains at the Columbia University Press White Sale with lots of offerings in Asian history and literature....

I hear through the grapevine that the organizers of Otakon, the huge anime/manga/pop culture convention held every in August in Baltimore, are looking for academic papers and panels on East Asian art, history, and culture to round out their offerings. Interested parties should contact Omar Jenkins, Head of Programming....