26 Nov 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Nov 26, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Nov 26, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Yamaguchi Jiro, Political Fragility in Japan and the Resignation of Abe Shinzo
* Fija Bairon and Patrick Heinrich, "Wanne Uchinanchu - I am Okinawan." Japan, the US and Okinawa's Endangered Languages
* Teresa Goudie, Blood-Sacrifice in the Politics of a Nation-State. Japanese-Americans in Hawai'i During and After World War II
* Sato Kazuo, Sun Yat-sen's 1911 Revolution Had Its Seeds in Tokyo
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

19 Nov 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Nov 19, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Nov 19, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Ming Wan, Engaging China: The Political Economy and Geopolitical Approaches of the United States, Japan and the European Union
* Li Narangoa, Nationalism and Globalization on the Inner Mongolia Frontier: the commercialization of a tamed ethnicity
* Zeljko Cipris, Seduced by Nationalism: Yone Noguchi's 'Terrible Mistake'. Debating the China-Japan War With Tagore
* Davis Spratt, The Big Melt. Lesson From the Arctic Summer of 2007
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

12 Nov 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Nov 12, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Nov 12, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Takahashi Tetsuya, H D Lee, Philosophy as Activism in Neo-Liberal, Neo-Nationalist Japan
* Donald M. Seekins, The Geopolitics and Economics of Burma's Military Regime, 1962-2007. Understanding SPDC Tyranny
* Michael Penn, Is There a Japan-Iraq Strategic Partnership?
* CHAN Chee Knoon, Privatizing the World Bank? An Asia Pacific Perspective on Changing Scenarios of Development Financing Oscar Johnson, The Nova Collapse: Foreigners Get Mixed Results From Joining Unions in Japan
* Richard Tanter, The Re-emergence of an Australian Nuclear Weapons Option? Implications for Indonesia and the Asia Pacific
* Asahi Shimbun, Murder of an Anarchist Recalled: Suppression of News in the Wake of the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

02 Nov 2007

Modern East Asia Research Centre (MEARC)
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Self-description: "MEARC represents the institutionalisation of a cluster of disciplinary research trajectories in the various regional fields of Modern East Asian Studies. Its explicit purpose is to support, showcase and stimulate genuinely disciplinary research (initially in the disciplines of Politics, History and Philosophy) on Greater China, Japan, and - in the near future - also Korea, in the period from the nineteenth century until the present day. It will achieve this purpose through support of lectures, workshops, conferences, and by the provision of research grants.."
Site contents: * About Us; * Staff; * News; * Research (Major Project: * Historical Consciousness and the Future of Modern China and Japan: Conservatism, Revisionism, and National Identity. Other Projects: * Miki Kiyoshi and Watsuji Tetsuro's concept of the 'human being' in the interwar and postwar period (1920s-1950s); * Rejecting Radicalism: The Revaluation of Modern Chinese Intellectual History during the 1990s; * Philosophical Escapology: Revisiting the Concept of 'Penitence' in Postwar Japan; * Revisionism in Transwar Japan 1940s ? present; * Dunhuang and Historical Sense in "Modern" Eurasia; * Tokugawa Sectarianism and Modern Ideology: A New History of Japanese anti-Christian discourse; * Conservatism in early 20th century China; * What was the Japanese Philosophy of History? Reconstructing the "World-Historical Standpoint" of the Kyoto School; * Being 'Asian': China in Japanese Discourse on 'the East' and its significance in Japan's collective identity formation, 1910-1949). * Publications; * Events; * Grants; * Contact Us; * Links.
URL http://www.mearc.eu/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mearc.eu/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

01 Nov 2007

SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Association pour la Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud, Paris, France
Supplied note: "SAMAJ is the first online journal devoted to social studies on South Asia, which [since Oct 2007 - ed.] publishes research-based articles in extenso and free of cost, while still applying the basic rules of all scientific journals. Written by professional academics as well as doctoral students, every article has been anonymously reviewed by two referees before publication. Its scope is multidisciplinary, covering studies in history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science and economy.
SAMAJ's first issue includes a special volume on 'Migration and Construction of the Other', with articles on 'Relations between Panjabi Sikhs and Muslims in the Diaspora' and 'Islamophobia in Indian American Lobbies', among others. It also offers articles on 'Studying a Controversy among Pushtuns in Balochistan', 'State, Ethnicity and Social Class in Kabul at War' and on the 'Genesis, Maturation and Distortion of the Bangladeshi Army', along with reviews of recent publications by Stephen Cohen, Magnus Marsden and Yoginder Sikand.
The next issue, due in Fall 2008, will address 'Outraged Communities: Investigating the Politicization of Emotions in South Asia'. We would be delighted if you could contribute an article on this (see call for paper at: http://samaj.revues.org/document217.html). Contributors are also welcome to submit articles on any other subject of their choice and whenever they wish. While SAMAJ's thematic volumes are published on an annual basis, separate articles, as well as book reviews, can be included at any time - a flexibility that only an online journal provides. [...]
SAMAJ's Editorial Board (Nosheen Ali, Luc Bellon, Amelie Blom, Miniya Chatterji, Jeremie Codron, Gilles Dorronsoro, Nicolas Jaoul, Aminah Mohammad-Arif, Christine Moliner and Ingrid Therwath) - ab."
Site contemts: * Index; * Special Issues; * Articles; * Book Reviews; * About Us; * Contact Us; * Lettres d'information;
URL http://samaj.revues.org
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Amelie Blom (amelie.blomkhan--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Nov 2007

Ainupride and Ainu Rebels
Paperboy and Co., Fukuoka, Japan
Self-description: "AINU REBELS is a group of young Ainu in the Tokyo area, formed in Summer of 2006 [and lead by one of their colleagues, Mina - ed.]. While learning traditional dancing and singing, we also work on producing new ways of expressing our identities and culture. We are doing our best to 'have fun' and 'be cool' while spreading Ainu culture throughout the world!! We chose the name 'REBLES' with the hope of creating change - to transform our society into one where Ainu people can be proud to be Ainu."
Site contents:
* Ainupride - Mina's Homepage:
News, Events, Media, Blog, Links (#LINKS FROM HOKKAIDO: Hokkaido Ainu Association, Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture, Hokkaido Prefectural Government's page about the Ainu, Hokkaido Ainu Culture Research Center (Prefectural Government), Hokkaido University Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Sapporo Pirka Kotan (Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center), The Ainu Museum (Shiraoi Poroto Kotan), Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum, Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Akan Lake Ainu Kotan (Akan Ainu Industrial Arts Association), Shiretoko Indigenous People Eco Tourism Research Union (SIPETRU). #LINKS OUTSIDE OF HOKKAIDO: Ainu Culture Center, Tokyo, Kamuymintara, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka Human Rights Musem (Liberty Osaka), Online Resources About the Ainu, Search Engine for Ainu place names, Ainu.info presented by Ruyka, Blog of Ainu-related News Clips, Ainu Language Radio Lessons, International Indigenous People's Network: IIPN, Homepages of Ainu Artists, Rera Cise - the Ainu restaurant in Tokyo, Site of the Ainu musician OKI, Ague: silvercraft using Ainu designs. #OTHER: The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), Indigenous Craft Shop - Middles, Japan Citizen's Coalition for the UN International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen: Sami Photographer) Gallery (The Ainu, Portrait, Art));
* Ainu Rebels Homepage:
What's new, About us, Members, Gallery (Ainu Rebels 2006, Ainu Rebels 2007, Ainu Rebels - Live @ Space Alta 2007.5.3), Blog, Goods [i.e. t-shirts with a mandatory among the middle-class urban teenagers apotropaic image of a certain inconsequential Argentinian medical student, Ernesto, who after a few years of travels and travails eventually became someone to be really reckoned with, namely a prison commander and the President of the National Bank of Cuba - ed.], About Ainu [a page under construction - ed.], Links [same as in Mina's page - ed.]
URL http://www.ainupride.com/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info/Online Guide.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Nov 2007

The Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG)
Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Self-description: "The principal objective of this group is to act as a facilitator and coordinator of research on the nature and impact of the human uses of the Indian Ocean, with the overall objective of realizing peace, co-operation and ecologically sustainable development in the Indian Ocean region. The Group will also: encourage research networking, including distance education, among institutions of higher learning, facilitate dialogue between cultures and civilizations in the region, act as a resource base of data and information on the region, provide consultancy services to interested government agencies and business groups and help facilitate intra-regional investment and trade.
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS
# The Indian Ocean Project: * The Indian Ocean Data Analysis Bank, * Geopolitical Orientations of Indian Ocean States, * Indian Ocean Regionalism, * Sea Lane Security in the Indian Ocean, * Human-Environmental Security, * International Population Movement in the Indian Ocean Region, * The Past, Present and Future Role of Extra-Regional Powers, * Water Security, * Energy Security.
# Regional Education Programmes: * Distance Education - proposed multi-campus Masters Course on Indian Ocean Studies, * Capacity Building - Research and Training in Marine Affairs.
# Science Projects: The IORG will endeavor to enter into collaborative arrangements with various regional groups on aspects of scientific research specifically related to the Indian Ocean."
Site contents: * The IORG Vision; * Preamble; * Objectives; * Research Programmes (The Indian Ocean Data Analysis Bank, Geopolitical Orientations of Indian Ocean States, Indian Ocean Regionalism, Sea Lane Security in the Indian Ocean, Human-Environmental Security, International Population Movement in the Indian Ocean Region, External Powers in the Indian Ocean, Development in the Small Island States and Territories of the Indian Ocean); * Advisory Board; * Infrastructure; * Contact Us; * Books & Journals (BOOKS - # Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region (2005) - ed. D. Rumley and S. Chaturvedi. # Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean (2004) - ed. D. Rumley and S. Chaturvedi. JOURNALS - Indian Ocean Survey (IOS): A Journal of Indian Ocean Research Group (Vol 1 No 2 Jul-Dec 2005, Vol 1 No 1 Jan-Jun 2005)); * IORG Conferences (# Fourth Annual Conference of IORG on Marine Biodiversity and Fisheries in the Indian Ocean Region: Opportunities and Threats in Oman, 18-20 Feb, 2007. # Third Annual Conference of Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) in Collaboration with Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12-14 Jul, 2005. # International Conference on Energy Security in The Indian Ocean 15-16 Feb, 2004. # The Indian Ocean in a Globalizing World: Critical Perspectives on the 21st Century 18 - 22 Nov, 2002).
URL http://www.iorgroup.org/default.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.iorgroup.org/default.php
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30