Why are the stories of Filipino victims during Japan’s WWII occupation nearly invisible in Japanese media? This article uncovers a striking gap in war memory, and why acknowledging it matters for history, representation, and international relations.

apjjf.org/2026/3/arroyo

At our 2023 next gen librarian workshop Fabiano Rocha (Japanese/Luso-Brazilian Studies Librarian @uoftlibraries.bsky.social) doing archival development, particularly with recent history. Refer to his slides for “Managing Japanese Canadian Archival Materials” at: guides.nccjapan.org/nextgenerati...

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

www3.archives.pref.okinawa.jp/VBO/

Transcription and oral history audio from the Battle of Okinawa has been made available on the Okinawa Prefectural Archives website.

I see a lot of people saying this is "like the Nazis" but it's also very much in the US tradition of eugenics, forced sterilization, and medicalized torture of queer people; this tradition was mostly ended by the late 70s but conservatives have been trying to bring it back for decades & here we are

New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.

NEW: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill Wednesday that aims to put a national moratorium on data center construction “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence.”

From @mollytaft.com in @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/new-be...

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The Hawaii State Department of Education is closing 13 schools across Hawaii Island, Oahu, and Molokai due to damage sustained from the second Kona low storm.

🔗: www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/03/23/hidoe-closes-...

Oral argument begins in a few minutes in a case involving the RNC’s attempt to override state laws that allow a grace period for the arrival of mail-in ballots. It’s a bait and switch designed to disqualify masses of mailed ballots.

Last week this is how Republicans talked about mail delivery.

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

Our new open-access article “Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges” is out!
We introduce land & water pedagogy as an additive, place-based approach that centers Indigenous knowledges & accountability to local contexts.
More ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/tesq...

Friends if you were NOT checking every single reference when peer-reviewing, you sure as hell better be doing it now.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Black and white photo of Porter seated at a desk in front of a row of bookshelves and a card catalog. She is a Black woman with shoulder length wavy hair. She is wearing a dark dress with white accents, and is reading a book which is open on her desk.

Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.historians.org/perspectives...

明日、2月17日は旧暦のお正月。
沖縄では旧暦で一年の行事を行う場合も多く、まめ書房でもこの時期に沖縄の方から年賀状をいただく事があります。
こちらは、ユニークな鳥の形のしめ縄。
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Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...

Being back in California has been interesting. Before leaving, I was sad to be going. Now that I'm back, I feel very lost? Not sure which way is the right way or even if I have professional or personal goals.

Taco over the plate of tacos.

One big taco with guacamole

View from Angeles Flight Railway

Some amazing blue corn tacos and small explorations of Grand Central Market and Angels Flight Railway a few days ago.

Alabama advocacy group expands its historical sites After building a museum, memorial and sculpture park, the Equal Justice Initiative opens a new site celebrating Civil Rights Era resistance in Montgomery

Read the Art Newspaper's piece about the growth of the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama.

Noodles and Kimchi

Cafe counter with blue. Heart decorations.

Just a little coffee run and picnic last weekend.

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Shun Medoruma is one of the most important contemporary Ryukyuan writers, especially since his 1997 Akutagawa win. His novel In the Woods of Memory was the first full-length work from Okinawa translated into English. Today, he spends more time as an environmental and peace activist than as a writer.

Language in Japan, Volume 1 Published by The Society for Japanese Linguistics. OPEN ACCESS

From the 2024 inaugural issue of the journal "Language in Japan." Michinori Shimoji (roots from Miyako) writes a guest paper, addressing the issue of whether the "first person" inclusive is really a first person category by examining Ryukyuan languages.

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/lij/1...

Apparently there is another video of ICE murdering someone and so I will remind you, again, that you do not have to watch it in order to confirm the thing everyone already knows: ICE is a lawless group of thugs who are killing people who stand up for basic American rights.

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

It's King Day! Don't Allow Them to Memory Hole What It Means

My new piece is up!

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Today let me draw your attention to another concerning passage in the IMLS NOFO.

They want projects that "explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education [and] explore cutting edge tools and fresh topics in the content and provision of continuing education."

What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics? Books pictured: Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal Spitz (Mā’ohi) The Crocodile by Vincent Eri (Papua New Guinea) Waimea Summer by John Dominis Holt (Kanaka Maoli) The Wreck/L’Épave by Déwé Gorodé (Kanak) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (Māori) Pouliuli by Albert Wendt (Samoan) Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport (Kanaka Maoli) Cousins by Patricia Grace (Māori)

What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics?

これは新たな名著です。
『戦後80年からのメッセージ 2045年のあなたへ 〜私たちは沖縄戦から何を学んだのか〜』(2025年刊)、沖縄戦を軸とする「平和学習」の最新テキスト。
授業での使用を想定した本ですが、世界で戦争が止まず日本も軍拡を進める今、私達大人こそが学ぶ内容が満載です。
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