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    <title>Japan’s Cynical Romantics, Precursors to the Alt-Right - Tablet Magazine</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The framing of the headline is actually less interesting than the more general phenomena being described.]]></description>
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    <title>Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters, Aldrich</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-03T00:18:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tōhoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tōhoku region have built back more quickly than others?
"Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding."]]></description>
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    <title>High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform, Bjork</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to education: Japan has been doing it for decades. Drawing on Japan’s experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, he sheds light on the best path forward for US schools.
"Bjork asks a variety of important questions related to testing and reform: Does testing overburden students? Does it impede innovation and encourage conformity? Can a system anchored by examination be reshaped to nurture creativity and curiosity? How should any reforms be implemented by teachers? Each chapter explores questions like these with careful attention to the actual effects policies have had on schools in Japan and other Asian settings, and each draws direct parallels to issues that US schools currently face. Offering a wake-up call for American education, Bjork ultimately cautions that the accountability-driven practice of standardized testing might very well exacerbate the precise problems it is trying to solve. "]]></description>
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    <title>The Untold History of Ramen - George Solt - Paperback - University of California Press</title>
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"This book is essential reading for scholars, students of Japanese history and food studies, and anyone interested in gaining greater perspective on how international policy can influence everyday foods around the world."]]></description>
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    <title>The political process of the revolutionary samurai: a comparative reconsideration of Japan’s Meiji Restoration - Springer</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the 1860s and 1870s, the feudal monarchy of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had ruled Japan for over two centuries, was overthrown, and the entire political order it had commanded was dismantled. This immense political transformation, comparable in its results to the great social revolutions of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries in the West, was distinctive for lacking a major role for mass political mobilization. Since popular political action was decisive elsewhere for both providing the force for social revolutions to defeat old regimes and for pushing revolutionary leaders to more radical policies, the Meiji Restoration’s combination of revolutionary outcomes with conservative personnel and means is puzzling. This article argues that previous accounts fail to explain why a group of relatively low-status samurai—administrative functionaries with some hereditary political privileges but in fact little secure power within the old regime—was able to overcome far more deeply entrenched political actors. To explain this, it is necessary to distinguish clearly between two political processes: the long-standing political relations of feudal monarchy and magnate lords and the unprecedented emergence of independent samurai political action and organizations cutting across domain boundaries. It was the interaction of these two processes that produced the overthrow of the Tokugawa and enabled the revolutionary outcomes that followed it. This article’s revised explanation of the Meiji Restoration clearly places it within the same theoretical parameters as the major revolutions of the seventeenth century and later."]]></description>
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    <title>After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West - Cambridge University Press</title>
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- Let me add that this is an _interesting_ subject for a book by a professor at Washington _and Lee_ University, _Virginia_.  (i.e., there's an obvious fourth case...)]]></description>
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    <title>The Most Desolate City on Earth: Gunkanjima, aka 'Battleship Island' - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities</title>
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    <title>Haikasoru</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Imprint for English translations of Japanese sf/f.
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden.  ... Herrigel’s book popularized ideas of Zen both in the West and in Japan. Yamada traces the prewar history of Japanese archery, reveals how Herrigel mistakenly came to understand it as a traditional practice, and explains why the Japanese themselves embraced his interpretation ... Turning to Ryoanji ... this epitome of Zen in fact bears little relation to Buddhism and is best understood in relation to Chinese myth. For much of its modern history, Ryoanji was a weedy, neglected plot; only after its allegorical role in a 1949 Ozu film was it popularly linked to Zen."
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    <title>Williams, D.: The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-01T20:54:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7883.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan ... Using newly-discovered manuscripts, Duncan Ryuken Williams argues that the success of Soto Zen was due neither to what is most often associated with the sect, Zen meditation, nor to the teachings of its medieval founder Dogen, but rather to the social benefits it conveyed.  Zen Buddhism promised followers many tangible and attractive rewards, including the bestowal of such perquisites as healing, rain-making, and fire protection, as well as "funerary Zen" rites that assured salvation in the next world. Zen temples also provided for the orderly registration of the entire Japanese populace, as ordered by the Tokugawa government, which led to stable parish membership."
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    <title>The Monsters' Chushingura</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-16T18:46:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/The_Monsters__Chushingura_(koban).htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[19th century Japanese prints of monsters enacting _The 47 Loyal Ronin_.  In a better branch of the wave-function than ours, Kurosawa and Miyazaki turned this into a movie.
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<dc:subject>chushingura art weird via:making_light Japan</dc:subject>
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    <title>Japan in Print</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-14T20:03:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9990.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted early_modern_world_history Japan great_transformation</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/11/japan_some_impressions.html">
    <title>Charlie's Diary: Japan: some impressions</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-05T12:29:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/11/japan_some_impressions.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Charlie Stross on Japan
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<dc:subject>armchair_travel japan stross.charles</dc:subject>
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