Uncategorized Germ Warfare and Panda Diplomacy in Tokyo: Unit 731 Excavations 23 Feb 2011 This is a cross-post from my Japanese War Crimes blog. -- AC Unit 731, the bacteriological warfare research wing of the Kanto Army in Manchuria, has been discussed in Japan…
Art… Transmediale Infusion 4 Feb 20114 Feb 2011 One of the beauties of living in an existence torn between the 19th century (hemmed by Prussian systems, Schumannian aufschwungen, the epistolary desire) and the 21st century (all the while…
East Asian modernity… Postwar Meditation: Berlin/Tokyo 18 Sep 200919 Sep 2009 Postwar is post-nothing: it is the beginning of something. "Ach!", trained instinct cries, "but what of 'tragen', to carry heavy burdens, of its simple past trug? Do not ponderous and…
North Korea… North Korea News / Dispatches on Korean & Japanese Culture 20 Aug 200921 Aug 2009 The Choson Ilbo reports, via an epic poem written by a defector, on a sensationalist story of how one of Kim Jong-Il's alleged lovers, an actress whom he was supposedly…
