The history of Japanese confectionery illustrates Japan's interaction with other countries: https://t.co/iiErXcPFLG #ndldigital https://t.co/vdTdda6Lol
Here are 304 photos taken in Japan by Robert V. Mosier, who was assigned to the General Headquarters after WWII, from April 1946 to January 1947. All photos are available in the #ndldigital. Get a glimpse of what postwar Japan looked like in full color. https://t.co/7Un4royrTn https://t.co/tA1Vf0Mn3f
Reviewed Garren Mulloy's Defenders of Japan. Originally wrote before the Ukraine invasion. Dawns on me that a few of the issues raised in the book/review have been (tentatively) addressed in the recent national security document revisions.
PDF here: https://t.co/6HOjV26Ihs
Picture book about steam trains published 1927. You can see a bento seller who sells #ekiben (train lunch) at platforms, which used to be a common scene but is now becoming rare. #ndldigital https://t.co/cLRObdYYyf https://t.co/b5Xg2Ox4G2
#KobayashiKiyochika, one of the last #ukiyoe artists, depicts a quiet evening twilight at the Kandagawa River, which flows through the center of Tokyo, in 1877. #ndldigital https://t.co/vfPqFdwH2h https://t.co/Tu2FtDVkF1
@ClintonGodart @dfedman @RBJapanHistory @jeremyyellen Kuga Katsunan read a French edition of the book (that's how I remember) and Minyūsha translated Bloch's work into Japanese in 1904. https://t.co/2soWHvjRd6
That is, Yamamoto Miono thought that the ideal future everyone had in mind for Korea was that it’ll be allowed to become a dominion like the British did for Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Source: 山本美越乃『植民政策研究』(弘文堂書房、1920年)、223頁 https://t.co/Hk9IIjcRCH
#KobayashiKiyochika created kosen-ga (ray pictures) that effectively used light and shadow under the influence of Western paintings. He produced a series of landscape paintings of Tokyo. #ndldigital #ukiyoe https://t.co/VWzu9FIfyD https://t.co/fD58qWTmsF
Apologies for the rerun, but the original link doesn’t work anymore:
“Desiring to Inaugurate Great Peace”: Yasuoka Masahiro, Kokutai Preservation, and Japan’s Imperial Rescript of Surrender
https://t.co/b0v7tXWmu3
@Andrew_Levidis @ernestleungmt It’s interesting that Kishi published 『日本戦時経済の進む途』(https://t.co/oeHonT4B2c) the same year and it has a preface by Kojima and he says they’re buddies! Perhaps it was a coordinated one-two punch?
I managed to find a photograph of the Industry Bureau (https://t.co/gt4l7p7aBy) and a map of Hsinking (https://t.co/475RHyhhU0) on which I've noted the bureau's location (in red) in relation to the imperial palace (in purple) and other government buildings (in orange). https://t.co/qC4XKIULqq https://t.co/LosXKgV4tU
@chabarera Nice! When I was reading up on voluntary associations in prewar Japan, I came across mentions of these divers. It seems that the Young Women’s Association had a not insignificant role in organising them, at least from the Taisho era onwards: https://t.co/YI7BheFKBM https://t.co/VBGZeiQeze
In this speech from 1914, Goto Shinpei opines that the Japanese rule of Taiwan was initially a failure because his predecessors had emulated the way the French ruled Algeria, whereas he and Kodama had created a policy tailored to their specific situation: https://t.co/dBv5JANduL https://t.co/UJ4S3EKL61
This colorful cover to the magazine Shojo Sekai (Girl’s World) is typical of the girls magazines that were popular during the early 20th century.
https://t.co/8FR4EOICyX https://t.co/KgjY10xTwK
An obscure minority perspective on the question of fascism in prewar Japan:
“Perceptions of Fascism and the New Bureaucrats in Early Shōwa Japan.” Saitama University Review (Faculty of Liberal Arts)・『埼玉大学紀要・教養学部』54(1) (2018): 69-103.
https://t.co/06U9xPJ7RN
The Japanese government widely promoted preventative measures like masks, gargling and vaccinations for the influenza pandemic around 1920.
#ndldigital https://t.co/WcIZB1LtIq https://t.co/ljSeLgcwdP
Seeing Miss Morning Glory, the main character of this novel, in a kimono you will surely want to wear one, too!
https://t.co/jil8Jfs0GX https://t.co/i9vhRtb96o
This letter from Takeda Shingen ends with a somewhat odd phrase: "Since I have eye trouble…" Let's see why he had to make this kind of excuse: https://t.co/R4I6SvAVRY https://t.co/jTpefKreDy