Since I'm in Tokyo and have major jet lag, let's watch a film about the nation. It's 1956. You are the U.S. military. Your troops are....probably not very well-informed about the world. And they have to spend time in Japan. So you have to teach...
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Back in 2020, I was selected to be a visiting scholar in Japan as part of the Organization of American Historians-Japanese Association of American Studies collaboration. They select two American.
This building is amazing and an object lesson in how not maintaining our modernist masterpieces are going to lead them to all fall apart very soon. Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower,.
ARLINGTON, TX - NOVEMBER 21: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones watches as the Cowboys take on the Detroit Lions at Cowboys Stadium on November 21, 2010 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) Even without climate change, it would be a really bad idea...
Everything's fine! We've got this climate thing under control! Amid an exceptionally warm March in Japan, the cherry blossoms in Kyoto peaked Friday, the earliest in more than 1,200 years.
It was ten years ago that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. There's been any number of stories to remember the anniversary and.
This 17 minute film is a slice of life from Tokyo in 1966. Nothing incredibly profound here, but a good look at home life, manufacturing, markets, etc. And there's plenty of value in that. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qvoZjbp9R1w
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So tonight's film club is what exists on YouTube of the powerful, angry, and wonderful 1952 Hideo Sekigawa film Hiroshima. Paul's.
This is the grave of Matthew Perry. Born in 1794 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Perry grew up in the world of post-Puritan respectability, with many ancestors being leading early.
This entire thread is incredible. The picture above: It's just John Adams fighting a giant snake. A thread of images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861.Here is George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America. 1/ pic.twitter.com/LoF54y54bL— Nick...
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare's 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all,.
I have long been fascinated with World War II movies. Unlike literature, where the war didn't lead to as many great works as one might think, there are an amazing.