I love konbini 🥹🥹🥹

Honored to have my writing appeared at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social!! I thank the editors and @kant.bsky.social’s feedback on the earlier drafts.

"Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner,... I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Japanese." Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...

Fieldwork always inspires more writing.

This French textbook assigned a text written by an English native speaker arguing that it is not necessary to learn French that hard bc English has dominated the French society….

海の向こうにいるのは…関税だ。

📌 Ateliers, conférences et projections pour explorer la richesse de ce patrimoine vivant Pour en savoir plus : www.inalco.fr/actualites/l...

A few months ago I replied "はい" to a French person and a few days ago I said "Oui" to a Japanese person...when will this mingling of languages stop 🫣

Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

My experiences with any random Japanese cuisine in Tainan has been great so far.

つ、ついに！https://www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/9784814005673.html?lang=jp

About to submit my dissertation but stuck at like 3 bibliography entries’ page numbers lol.

Watched a five-hour documentary this afternoon plus one hour Q&A with the director and I think I deserve a treat 😴

Very honored to have my first poem published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social!

A new entry alert!! Dr. Ruselle Meade has kindly contributed this translation of a Japanese scientist describing indigenous people and life in Nan'yo. I can think of many ways of using this resource in class already! japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...

“Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise”

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.

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Interesting CfP for a workshop on business history & imperialism held at Leiden University #HistIR www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

How do those who reside in Urban Heat Islands cope with escalating temperatures? Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #histstm #sts #envhist

A very good time to watch the show The Good Fight.

Tremendous thanks to the lady who gave me 30NTD on the bus bc I forgot to bring my card and don’t have any coins 🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏

Finished the first episode of VIVANT -- dunno which is the main purpose of the show: expressing Japanese nationalism or promoting tourism to (a fictional) Mongolia?! Also, dunno if all the Japanese actors spoke in actual Mongolian bc if they did then it's really impressive!

I've seen raving reviews on the Blue Eye Samurai but the opening description on the historical background already made me cringe....

The historiography is hard to write.