Favorite part of the Claude Mythos system card has to be the “hi-topia” behavior in response to the repeated-“hi” test www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a...

In our new essay, Tomasz Sleziak explores how Poland and South Korea use digital repositories to preserve national consciousness following their transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.

Read more on our website!
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CA2098 – 閉学に伴う大学・短期大学図書館での大規模な蔵書処分にあたって留意すべき事項 / 今野創祐 PDFファイルカレントアウェアネスNo.367　2026年3月20日CA2098閉学に伴う大学・短期大学図書館での大規模な蔵書処分にあたって留意すべき事項東京学芸大学：今野創祐（いまのそうすけ）1. はじめに　本稿は、日本の大学・短期大学（...

A colleague pointed me to this helpful reminder on the problem of lost library collections in Japan, amid the closure or amalgamation of smaller universities struggling to fill enrollments. Some "last copies" of published works are at risk of being tossed out.

current.ndl.go.jp/ca2098

Rare opportunity for European postdocs to define your own research project in #envhist #envirohist

Potential topics include extractivism in the electronics industry! @andrewcampana.bsky.social @mmuscolino.bsky.social @eastasiascitech.bsky.social

My article is now open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“A Reed’s Width of Water”: Urbanization and Migration between Japan and Korea Author Hannah Shepherd on urban growth between Japan and Korea and how this project came to be.

Read all about my book and hear about it at #AAS2026 www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...

Let us hope that it will eventually get out there into the open. In the meantime, I whipped up an index for some issues this afternoon: froginawell.net/indexes/cont... - I'll hold off advertising for now.

I would love to add one if there is an open access version of the journal!

The postcard is from “Oleg Benesch Postcards of Militarism, Heritage, and Pageantry in Imperial Japan” collection.

A Historian's Adventures with Generative AI Episode 1: Dr. Paul Barclay, Gemini3, and a Postcard. YouTube video by Paul Barclay

Paul Barclay has a wonderful 15m cautionary tale video walking through the use of Gemini to help analyze a Japanese historical post card from the @olegb.bsky.social collection, if I heard him right. youtu.be/utzk0e5cUtI?...

Thanks! I sometimes worry people think I might be sympathetic (I’m not!) but they are useful for students to critique.

Territorial Natures A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia.   Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded int...

2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.

You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This follows three other similar efforts, all designed to make these sources accessible for student critical analysis:

Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette/
Chinese Literature 1950s-80s
froginawell.net/chinese-lite...
Contemporary Japan 1941-45
froginawell.net/frog/sources...

I've posted a linked up list of tables of contents for the 1944-5 issues of Azad Hind, the Japanese-supported Indian National Army and Provisional Government of India's newspaper, issues of which can be found on Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons:

froginawell.net/azad-hind/

I created a deep linked table of contents (titles searchable) for the over 50 issues of "Tokyo Gazette" (1937-1942) that can be found on @archive.org - great source for students to critique: froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette/ Done with major LLM help and OCR, main titles checked over manually. #japan

Meanwhile, "Manchoukuo Goes Yo Yo" (from Manchuria Daily News March 22, 1933). "Anything to keep the cyclist occupied is regarded as a good sign."

Nice before and after between this 12 Jan 1933 Trans-Pacific weekly article "Japanese Army Loves Piece" a few weeks before the conquest of Rehe (Jehol), and 9 Mar piece, the month it will be annexed as part of Japanese occupied Manchukuo.

Thanks to @fearandsequins.bsky.social for passing on this interesting post from January 2024. Particularly interested in its findings around Green OA. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Nice that the complete works of Yanagita Kunio are all openly available for download on the National Diet Library: 定本柳田国男集 dl.ndl.go.jp/search/searc...

The list of his works made available by the Japanese equivalent of Project Gutenberg, 青空文庫 is also growing: www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/...

Great to hear!

It seems the repository may be having issues, see if this direct link works for you? research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/ha...

Not sure why, I was able to download the pdf yesterday from here: hdl.handle.net/10023/33500

Enabling abuse

I think something may have gone wrong with the link, will try again: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

Congratulations to Valerie Cranmer for the acceptance of her PhD dissertation on the infamous 防疫給水部, “Enabling abuse: the Imperial Japanese Army’s epidemic prevention and water purification organisation and its place in global military history” research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...

For anyone who loves maps, two sources of modern East Asia related maps with amazing collections that I only recently explored:

The UN Archives in Geneva archives.ungeneva.org/east-asia-2
国際日本文化研究センタ lapis.nichibun.ac.jp/chizu/index....

Japan in Korea, Korea in Japan A historical guidebook to Japan-Korea relations

Nice historical resource put together by students at Georgetown: Japan in Korea, Korea in Japan storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d063...

I've been to the past few NarraScope narrative games conferences, and they're great. Great size, great talks, great people, great networking!

TIL, if I understand this correctly, in 1937 the Japanese company we now know as Nissan bore the name "Manchurian Heavy Industry Development Corporation" (満洲重工業開発株式会社) and it moved its corporate headquarters to Japanese occupied Xinjing (Changchun).

And lots downloadable from NDL in English too, such as:

1943 Nippon Today & Tomorrow dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1112291/...
or the massive 1943 edition of "Glimpses of East Asia" (東亜大観) dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1028324/... by the N.Y.K. shipping company