December 2011
hanabi asked: I LIKE IT. Tiny notes: "explosion in" reads a bit awkwardly/it's a little unclear what "tense situation"--tense political situation bw the two countries?/"produced products" is a teeny bit redundant/the sentence that begins "This study aims" starts out quite strong but the "and in relation to" bit at the end makes your meaning a little...
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Representations of Korean and Zainichi Korean...
In the early 2000s, Japan’s relationship with North and South Korea came under intense domestic scrutiny after Japan was engaged in a series of international exchanges with the two countries in relation to Japan’s WWII-era atrocities and unresolved border disputes with South Korea. These exchanges coincided with a massive explosion in South Korean cultural imports into Japan, exacerbating an...
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dudes
writing abstracts is a fucking bitch
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You can't resist a cop, even if the arrest is... →
Police say Crossland then elbowed one officer in the head, at which point he was punched, taken to the ground, kicked several times, and pepper sprayed. Both the trial court, the appeals court, and even the prosecution acknowledge that because Crossland was doing nothing wrong before the incident, it was illegal for the police to stop, detain, and search him. Nevertheless …
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“Here’s what I learned: If you want to do photography at a level that really...”
– The Visual Science Lab / Kirk Tuck: Lonely hunter. Better hunt. (via bandh)
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My mother is here
Will she survive Tokyo
Will I survive my mother
Tune in to find out!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
BAGDAD CAFE THE trench town (54)
Beirut (45)
salyu × salyu (29)
キノコホテル (21)
Soul Scream (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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社会人になって失ったものは多いけれど、社会人になって得たものは何だろう。
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hanabi:
Thompson still there? I was thinking about him the other day and I was like “lolololol oh yeah that guy”
yeah but I don’t have much to do with him since he only teaches undergrad. see him around every now and again, though. he tried to start a classical japanese club but I don’t know how it went…
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things that 上智大学 is really good at
paying their teachers less than every other school in the country
pretending their graduate students don’t exist
maintaining a 1980s technological environment
for historical purposes, obviously
(I nearly minored in history, I know this shit)
sucking up to the pope
acting like every graduate student is an asshole
(in their defense, we are assholes)
layers
upon layers
of...
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Pug Davis →
A pug-man and his sidekick wander the galaxy protecting earth from monsters and aliens and such. do I pay $30 USD to have it shipped to Japan?
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every episode of the Critic →
why are you not watching them? important pieces of information, related to being a silly neurotic New Yorker in the 90s. blueprint for young people everywhere, what Woody Allen was to my parents
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Possible graduation project/thesis
Formation of Identity in Japanese Immigrant Communities as Seen in the Cinema
Possible topics of discussion: zainichi-directed, nationalist propaganda, “daarin ha gaijin,” Iwai Shunji, what else am I missing?
the tag system here
I can’t make pages with my tags anymore! when I try to enable these pages I get an error msg saying “this overrides a built-in Tumblr url” - and then clicking the tag page shows no posts
please help, I desperately need to have a page with stupid gifs explaining the entirety of my personality
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Tomorrow's interview
requires trekking across Miyagi prefecture to Ishinomaki in what will likely be a 2+ hour ride each way… At least today’s just meant sitting around Sendai station waiting and trolling tumblr. And I’ve never been to Ishinomaki - definitely gonna bring the camera.
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Bleh
Why does the only outlet for me to charge my phone (and voice recorder) in the station have to be in the smoking section?
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Just my luck
Kim Jong-il dies while I’m on a bus to Sendai, where I’ll be conducting interviews, so I cant have fun mocking him and pontificating on the future of north Korea.
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