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MIT historian of Modern Japan　 MIT教員・近代日本史 https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/ Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles City-walker and photo-taker

永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara

Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan! Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night www.cambridge.org/core/books/j... #envhum #envhist #histstm #AsianStudies

Hey #Slystorians and #Alaskasky! Now is a great time to order my book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” for 40% off plus free domestic shipping if you order through the UW Press website with the discount code: WARM26 Woohoo! uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... 🗃️📚🐛❄️

No I don't need to buy another book that's not immediately relevant to the book that I'm supposed to be writing NOW, but....sometimes the book cover just draws you in and...

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

久しぶりに日本語で原稿を書いている。普段は大体英語でやってる作業なので、戸惑いつつも…楽しい。言葉を紡ぐことって楽しい。

Tokyo, early summer 2018 #fujisuperia400

There are over 380 issues of the Japanese journal 婦人衞生雜誌, 1888-1926 on Internet Archive to read or download. This is a key source in the study of the rise of modern concept of hygiene in Japan and a turn to a focus on women's bodies in public health. archive.org/search?query...

Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.