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03
Sep

Current History Now Published by UC Press

We are delighted to welcome Current History to UC Press’s portfolio of journals. Current History‘s September 2020 issue—the first issue to be published by UC Press—has just released, and, in celebration, we …

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24
Mar

A Chat with the Editors of Diva Nation

This guest post is published around the Association for Asian Studies conference in Denver, occurring March 21-24, 2019. #AAS2019 LM:  People seem interested in our claim “We did not go searching for her, this diva …

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13
Apr

Are Children Ruling the World Yet?

This guest post is published around the Association for Asian Studies conference in Washington D.C., occurring March 22-25, 2018. #AAS2018 by Sabine Frühstück, author of Child’s Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan …

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02
Dec

Robots: The Backstories

by Jennifer Robertson, author of Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Washington D.C.. Check back regularly for …

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01
Nov

#tsumamototoyochien and Prewar Ideals

by Sabine Frühstück, author of Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan In September 2016, the Twitter hashtag #tsukamotoyochien attracted a series of comments on Tokyo’s Tsukamoto kindergarten’s practices of …

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02
Aug

Avant-Garde Art in Japan and Brazil

Rio de Janeiro’s Paço Imperial is currently hosting an unusual retrospective of Japanese postwar art, ‘The Emergence of The Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art In Japan 1950-1970‘. Curator Pedro Erber is the author of Breaching the Frame: The …

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