Japan… Thinking About Megumi 23 Sep 2009 Watching clips of the irrepressible Kanye West grabbing a microphone to hijack some narrative or another, I thought about Megumi Yokota [横田めぐみ]. Like Kanye, Megumi's story has grown beyond anyone's…
North Korea-Japan relations Missing Person of the Cold War: Liberation Report on Megumi Yokota 15 Sep 200916 Sep 2009 The following article is a stub; translation of the complete article should be posted in a few hours' time. --A.C. More to follow.... Arnaud Vaulerin, “Japan. Disparu de la Guerre…
Japan… On Megumi Yokota: Doggerel One 15 Sep 200915 Sep 2009 Japan is hatin' on DPRK Koizumi's plume done led the way When Kim abducted you say? The DPRK gotta send Megumi home.// //But they said she killed herself in a…
Cultural Politics… North Korea’s New Spin on the Abduction Issue: Cue 1592 9 Nov 20099 Nov 2009 In sifting through some earlier KCNA reports from Pyongyang, I came across this somewhat fascinating defense of Korean womanhood by the North Korean press, a story which also functions as…
French… Translation Queue and Forthcoming Blog Features 14 Sep 2009 What's coming up this month on Sinologistical Violoncellist, among other things: Translations: 1) Arnaud Vaulerin, "Japan. Disparu de la Guerre Froide [Japan: Disappeared in the Cold War]," Liberation, 11 March…
North Korea… North Korea as Barrier to China’s Great Power Aspirations 10 Aug 2009 Chuck Kraus at the Foreign Devil blog, excavating a provocative and accurate piece by Bonnie S. Glaser, parses the shifts in Chinese policy attitudes toward North Korea. After all the scrum over the (admittedly quite important)…
North Korea Book Blitz 6 May 2009 New finds in UW Tacoma's lofty stacks (amid the scent of coffee in the nostrils thick, thinking of oneself or the other as the dedicatee of various works, the heft…
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