Japanese history

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  2/25/2021
  

  The Tokyo Moment: What Developing Cities Can Learn From The Postwar Japanese Capital

  by Ben Bensal

  "Studying postwar Tokyo helps historicize the discourse on megacities, which is still in its infancy. While there are important similarities between today’s megacities in terms of their size, organizational complexity, and socio-economic challenges, there are important contextual differences that are best assessed using a historical approach."

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal
  2/23/2021
  

  Supplement to Special Issue: Academic Integrity at Stake: The Ramseyer Article

  by Alexis Dudden

  The Asia-Pacific Journal is publishing a collection of letters in opposition to the controversial article by Harvard Law professor J. Mark Rameseyer which characterized the sexual abuse of Korean women during World War II as freely contracted sex work. 

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• SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
  2/15/2021
  

  Journal Delays Print Publication of Harvard Law Professor’s Controversial ‘Comfort Women’ Article Amid Outcry

  "Against the historical consensus, Ramseyer claims in his paper, entitled “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War," that comfort women were not coerced and instead voluntarily entered into contracts with Japanese brothels."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/10/2020
  

  A Famed Horror Director Mines Japan’s Real-Life Atrocities

  In a recent interview, Mr. Kurosawa, 65, said he found it hard to understand why Japan’s war crimes remained almost taboo among the country’s filmmakers 75 years after the conflict’s end.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/26/2020
  

  The Lone Woman of Kokura

  by Nyri A. Bakkalian

  Who was the Lone Woman in the Kokura Castle town ruins that day in 1866? We don’t know her name, though we know where she died in Kokura.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/28/19
  

  Centuries ago, women ruled Japan. What changed?

  Conservative and patriarchal Japan excludes women -- who make up 13 of the 18 members of the royal family -- from taking the throne. But this wasn't always the case.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  1/15/19
  

  New Teacher's Guide on "Comfort Women" To Be Distributed Across California Schools

  The debate around teaching this history has been controversial.