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Looking forward to this today:
events.la.psu.edu/event/rethin...
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Rethinking the Past of Conflict, Imagining the Future of Peace in East Asia | Liberal Arts Events
The year 2025 marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II and the sixtieth anniversary of Korea-Japan diplomatic normalization, making it an opportune time to reflect upon these two his...
https://events.la.psu.edu/event/rethinking-the-past/
about 2 months ago
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Psst... don't share this with AI.
against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
https://against-a-i.com/
3 months ago
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Coming soon:
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352595/
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Wit Happens
Book Detail -
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352595/
3 months ago
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すわぞ
5 months ago
百年使われた道具は付喪神になる。まさか俺がそんなものになるとは。そもそも同じパソコンを百年も使う人間がいるなんて普通思わないだろ。百年保つパソコンの方もどうかしている。俺だが。そして俺は半ば滅びかけの人類と銀河にはばたく機械たちの橋渡しを受け持つことになったのである。
#140字小説
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Cornell University Press
5 months ago
Unlock a world of knowledge. Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print* today through Friday, June 27th. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! See all books:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/
* US orders only. Excludes Leuven UP. Not applicable for pre-order books.
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Japan Past & Present
6 months ago
This week! In-person and virtual! Registration is still open for JPP's international symposium "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field" (5/29–5/31)! 🗾
japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...
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Student film version of the classic by Edogawa Ranpo and maybe creepier than the original:
youtube.com/watch?v=rbbE...
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The Human Couch - Short Film
YouTube video by Wildcat Productions
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbbETKbILCk&si=Mv9v2o4b69xqBN4M
6 months ago
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Coming… not so soon:
press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mode...
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Modern Japanese Literary Studies
Modern Japanese Literary Studies brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary and institutional perspectives on the state of the field and presses for overdue recognition that Japanese literatur...
https://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Modern-Japanese-Literary-Studies2
6 months ago
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This should be fun. Open to online and in person registrations!
calendar.ku.edu/event/digita...
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Digital Age Symposium
https://calendar.ku.edu/event/digital-age-symposium?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=The+University+of+Kansas
7 months ago
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Prolly won’t work if I say it this way, but… Posting this in hopes of baiting engagement:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Nightmare
People are using ChatGPT to create Studio Ghibli–style images. And the backlash is huge.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/studio-ghibli-memes-openai-chatgpt/682235/
8 months ago
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David Humphrey
8 months ago
Saw a copy of Time of Laughter in the wild at
#aas2025
at the
@uofmpress.bsky.social
table. And reserved!
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis
8 months ago
Come by Digital Humanities Japan today at 12:15! Share your latest project and network with colleagues!
#AAS2025
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Kimberly Hassel
8 months ago
Friends and colleagues at/near Penn State! I'll be giving a public talk hosted by the Humanities Institute on Thursday, March 20th from 3:30-5:00 PM. Would love to see some familiar faces in the crowd as I present some new and ongoing research!
events.la.psu.edu/event/mediat...
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“Samurai, Blerds, and Otaku Hot Girls: Mediating Afro-Japanese Encounters from Yasuke to Megan Thee Stallion” | Liberal Arts Events
In this talk, I discuss the representations of Afro-Japanese encounters in digital culture using the case studies of Yasuke and Megan Thee Stallion. Yasuke, a historical figure and Black African samur...
https://events.la.psu.edu/event/mediating-afro-japanese-encounters/
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Marc Steinberg
8 months ago
Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including
@jonabel.bsky.social
@cheryllsoriano.bsky.social
and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:
upittpress.org/series/power...
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Power Currents: Asian Media in the World - University of Pittsburgh Press
https://upittpress.org/series/power-currents-asian-media-in-the-world/
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Shoji YAMADA
9 months ago
At the AAS in Columbus, CEAL/CJM and NCC will co-host an open meeting on the digitization services by the National Diet Library, Japan to gather feedback on the restrictions on international access. March 13 (Thu) at 20:00. Please forward this to your friends.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Access Options for National Diet Library Digital Collections - Open Session with NDL Experts | H-Net
Council on East Asian Libraries Committee on Japanese Materials (CEAL-CJM) & North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) Informal Business MeetingTheme: National Diet Libra...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20059683/access-options-national-diet-library-digital-collections-open-session
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Oh no… I killed Duo!
9 months ago
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DIJ Tokyo
9 months ago
Missed our joint DIJ-DWIH international workshop 'Imagined Futures in Japan & Beyond'
www.dijtokyo.org/event/imagin...
last October? Video recordings from all six panel sessions are now available on the DIJ's YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@DIJTokyo
, incl.
@hiroosa.bsky.social
@jonabel.bsky.social
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So AI has gone all Bartleby on me.
9 months ago
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Read Japanese Literature
10 months ago
Sad to report that Kurodahan appears to be closing up shop. This press has been an incredible resource for the kinds of Japanese stories unlikely to get translated and published elsewhere—especially, but not exclusively, SF and horror. Take a look at their backlist soon! I've just stocked up.
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Kurodahan Press
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
https://bookshop.org/lists/kurodahan-press?page=1
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The Video Game Library 📚
12 months ago
378. SPACE AND PLAY IN JAPANESE VIDEOGAME ARCADES 👉
www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/space-a...
@jeremiepgagnon.bsky.social
#Arcade
#GameStudies
#Gaming
#Booksky
#MediaStudies
#Ludology
#CulturalStudies
#アーケード
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George Takei
12 months ago
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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The Japanese Paper Film Project
12 months ago
Ports from the other place (org. posted 12/1/23): "This week we're finishing Urashima Tarō for Kyoto's Toy Film Museum. This charming 1930s paper film animates a well known Japanese fairy tell where Urashima Tarō rescues a turtle and meets (under the sea!) Princess Otohime."
#anime
#Japan
#film
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The Japanese Paper Film Project
12 months ago
Port from 12/7/23: "We’re pleased to announce a major discovery: a previously unknown 1930s Japanese company making paper films. Here’s a clip from the Tsukiboshi Company & their film Japanese People are Here. More info in English & 日本語 here:
kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu/tsukiboshi
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Modern Japan History Association
12 months ago
Mark your calendars! Carol Gluck's 2024 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture, titled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Modern Japanese History: Time Past, Present, Future," will be Thursday, 12/5 from 7:00-8:30 pm ET (Friday 12/6 9:00-10:30 am JST)! REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE:
mjha.org/event-5944148
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Looking forward to this tomorrow!!!
centerforthehumanities.org/event/how-ai...
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How AI is Changing Art and the Humanities, and To What Ends - Center for the Humanities
Art Science Connect presents a two-day interdisciplinary symposium “How AI is Changing Art and the Humanities, and To What Ends” at the CUNY Graduate Center to explore recent developments and uses of ...
https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/how-ai-is-changing-art-and-the-humanities-and-to-what-ends/
about 1 year ago
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Internet Archive
about 1 year ago
Latest update,
@brewster.kahle.org
: “The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. Sorry, no Save Page Now yet. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle
web.archive.org
More as it happens.”
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Kathryn Hemmann
about 1 year ago
I'm excited to share a preview of my piece for
@13daysadvent.bsky.social
, a free horror zine that will be available to download on 10/31. My story is an update on the legend of the man-eating yamauba, and I hope you'll cheer on this Dark Cottagecore murdergirl as she entraps a YouTube influencer.
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Are we there yet? ….Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,771,964!
about 1 year ago
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis
over 1 year ago
A really cool piece today from NCC on Japanese film history and paper-produced cinema! Calling
@jonabel.bsky.social
and film enthusiasts! 🎥
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永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara
over 1 year ago
Boston-area folks and visitors: a super cool exhibit just opened at the MFA featuring the history of Japanese popular music and sheet music covers! It will soon be accompanied by a beautiful exhibit book that includes an essay by yours truly. Check them out!
www.mfa.org/exhibition/s...
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Songs for Modern Japan
Japan experienced a whirlwind of change between 1900 and 1950. At the turn of the century, Western music notation had become a sign of modernity, helping spread jazz and Broadway to Tokyo cafés and ni...
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/songs-for-modern-japan?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social-post&utm_campaign=collection&promo=50443
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Dael Norwood
over 1 year ago
It’s just “Manual of Style” now.
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Japan Past & Present
over 1 year ago
It gives us enormous pleasure to announce that, after more than 3 years of planning and preparation, Japan Past & Present is now up and running! 🎉🗾 JPP is a global information hub & repository that promotes research & teaching in the Japanese humanities!
japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/anno...
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis
over 1 year ago
It's here! It's here! My eyeballs are falling out of my head and my brain is leaking out of my ears, but it's heeeeeeere! I can't tell you how excited I am for
@jppinfo.bsky.social
to be realized. I am SO grateful to the small army of people who made this possible and contributed their AMAZING work.
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MIT Press
over 1 year ago
The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/
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G+T-4days...Only four more days till "Godzilla Plus: Nostalgia, History, and Culture in the Latest Giant from Japan" with Bill Tsutsui, Aaron Gerow, Jeffrey Angles, Rachel DiNitto, and Katsuyuki Hidaka. See the announcement here:
asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies...
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<em>LATE BREAKING SESSION - </em>Godzilla Plus: Nostalgia, History, and Culture in the Latest Giant from Japan
This roundtable discussion brings together experts on Japanese film, history, media studies, and ecocriticism to consider the contemporary politics and aesthetics surrounding the recent resuscitation ...
https://asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7290
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
I don't have location data but here's a breakdown of language use in posts (based on lingua-go detected languages) over the past 48 hours. Top languages: Japanese: 43% English: 34% German: 6% French: 2%
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Introducing CineMAP: Visualizing Places of Japanese Film - A talk with Professor Jonathan E. Abel f...
シネマップとは何か:日本映画のロケ地と場所を可視化する This talk will introduce the development and uses of the CineMAP project, a database and visualization tool for thinki...
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/eastasia/events/introducing-cinemap-visualizing-places-of-japanese-film-a-talk-with-professor-jonathan-e-abel-from-pennsylvania-state-university
almost 2 years ago
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So looking forward to this:
sites.google.com/view/japan-s...
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Japan Studies at Pitt - Unicode and the Humanities
Description Until the 1990s, world scripts existed in a digital Tower of Babel. With the exception of unaccented Latin characters, texts written on one computer (or sometimes even in one application) ...
https://sites.google.com/view/japan-studies-at-pitt/Unicode-and-the-Humanities?pli=1
almost 2 years ago
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Modern Japan History Association
almost 2 years ago
We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Jessamyn R. Abel's "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford University Press, 2022)!
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Modern Japan History Association
almost 2 years ago
We are thrilled to announce the three finalists for the 2024 MJHA Book Prize (given to a book published in 2022). The winner will be announced next week, so stay tuned!
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Jessamyn Abel
almost 2 years ago
Very excited that my book on the bullet train, *Dream Super-Express*, is a finalist for the MJHA book prize. Thank you,
@modernjapanhist.bsky.social
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@stanfordpress.bsky.social
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Aaron Gerow
almost 2 years ago
Kuroyanagi Tetsuko appears on the front page of today's New York Times. I was quoted in this article by Motoko Rich.
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/w...
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A Woman Who Shows Age Is No Barrier to Talk Show Stardom
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi has been one of Japan’s best-known entertainers for seven decades. At 90, she’s still going strong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/world/asia/tetsuko-kuroyanagi-japan-television.html
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Amidst all the accolades for Mark Ronson’s Barbie Album, can someone explain to me the exclusion of Shonen Knife? I mean “Twist Barbie” is clearly the best of all Barbie songs and no less ironic than “Barbie Girl”… just sayin’.
youtu.be/u25__HY4XwE?...
almost 2 years ago
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