I've come to introduce myself and to ask for a little help. I graduated UNC-Wilmington in 2007 with a degree in Psychology, but along the way, developed an interest in Japan and studied abroad at Nagoya Gakuin University in 2006 (only for a semester; still had an unrelated degree to finish!). I've been considering what to go for in graduate school ( Read more... )

You guys!

I recently bought a book about Japanese history: A History of Japan by Conrad Totman - Blackwell Publishing (0-631-21447-X)

It's quite a comprehensive book written by a professor emeritus of Japanese History. Anyway, the maps provided in the book are not very convenient, so I was wondering whether anybody in this community knows a good ( ( Read more... )

School hasn't even started yet but after a super relaxing summer, I'm a little freaked out. I signed up for Preadvanced Japanese and Beginning Mandarin. I think both are going to be really heavy. It seemed like a good idea at the time because I'm thinking of going to grad school for Japanese history and I've heard that languages are really ( Read more... )

Hello, all ( Read more... )

People may know about this already, but I thought I might pass it along:

The Eras on-line postgraduate journal is currently seeking submissions ( Read more... )

Can anyone tell me anything about the Chinese historical term 都統 ( Read more... )

Hi all. I'm reading a pre-war Japanese transcription of an even older (Japanese) text, and while there are a number of symbols that I do understand (old kanji, old kana, and things like 〇 and □ which represent characters the transcriber couldn't read), there are a few I am having trouble with ( Read more... )

Hello all. I'm sure this has been asked before (quite possibly by myself), so I apologize for that. (Though if anyone can link to the previous times the question's been asked, that'd be quite useful ( Read more... )

I have been invited to become an editor for a new academic journal which is trying to get off the ground. The information about it follows:

The Samurai Archives Journal of Japanese History is a new and independently published journal devoted to the critical examination of the events and personalities of pre-20th century Japan ( Read more... )

The Meiji Restoration is probably the most written about event in all of Japanese historical scholarship; tons of books and articles have been written about its causes and effects, and its significance. Yet, I have never learned the exact details of what occurred in 1867-8. What battles were fought? Who exactly was involved? What persuaded the last ( Read more... )