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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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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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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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Oh no… I killed Duo!

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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.

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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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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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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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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 (1/2)

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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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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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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!

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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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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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It’s just “Manual of Style” now.

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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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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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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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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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Looking forward to this:

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So looking forward to this: sites.google.com/view/japan-s...

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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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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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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! @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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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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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?...

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