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  • Youth Associations and Thought Guidance

    Youth Associations and Thought Guidance

    Introduction by Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore. Published on Jan 19, 2021. At the beginning of colonial rule of Taiwan, Japanese-built elementary schools were not popular among elite Taiwanese families, who continued to appreciate Chinese classics. Public schools spread in cities and even in remote rural areas relatively quickly, however, once Taiwanese population realized… Read more

  • Yasukuni’s Mass Enshrinement Lists

    Yasukuni’s Mass Enshrinement Lists

    Introduction by Paul D. Barclay, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. Published on Mar 29, 2021. Yasukuni Shrine has been a site of international and domestic controversy since the 1980s, especially around the issue of its enshrinement of high-ranking Japanese officers from World War II. But Yasukuni’s role as a premier record-keeper of Japanese battlefield fatalities… Read more

  • Mishima Yukio’s Manifesto

    Mishima Yukio’s Manifesto

    Introduction by Christopher Smith, University of Floria. Published on May 10, 2021 Mishimia Yukio 三島由紀夫 (1925-1970) was one of Japan’s premier postwar novelists, and led a varied and interesting life. He was, most scholars agree, a closeted gay man who burst onto the literary scene in 1949 with his Confessions of a Mask (kamen no kokuhaku 仮面の告白), a… Read more

  • The End of the Battleship Yamato (1946)

    The End of the Battleship Yamato (1946)

    Introduction by Christopher Smith, University of Florida. Published on May 17, 2021. The IJN Yamato was the largest battleship ever built. Its 46 cm/45 caliber main guns were the largest ever mounted on a ship. It was a feat of engineering, the pride of the Japanese fleet, and—bearing the name of the province where the imperial court originated—a… Read more

  • 寂然上人碑 Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran

    寂然上人碑 Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran

    Introduction by Jonathan Henshaw, Academia Sinica. Published on Oct 19, 2022. Listed among the items in the Immoveable Cultural Relics database in China’s Jiangsu Province is the Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran, a unique artefact located at Qixia Temple in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, pre-war capital of the Republic of China. Built from 483-489… Read more