Historian of modern East Asia he/him
Lecturer at University of St Andrews
From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Konrad M. Lawson
Created a timeline comprised of events found in various english language publications from pre-1945 Japan. It is not a neutral timeline: it captures the perspectives of sources that served or were censored by the Japanese state, but hopefully interesting to […]
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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 @internetarchive - great source for students to critique: https://froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette/ Done with major LLM help and OCR, main titles checked over […]
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 […]
This follows three other similar efforts, all designed to make these sources accessible for student critical analysis:
Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
https://froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette/
Chinese Literature 1950s-80s
https://froginawell.net/chinese-literature/
Contemporary Japan 1941-45 […]
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” […]
I created a deep linked and searchable table of contents index for issues of the prewar "Japan Magazine" found on Internet Archive, with over 200 issues and several thousand articles. Useful for history students working only with English sources:
https://froginawell.net/indexes/japan-magazine/ […]
Added a searchable transcription of the 1917-1929 events diary to the Japan Magazine index: https://froginawell.net/indexes/japan-magazine/timeline.html
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:
https://froginawell.net/azad-hind/ […]
Konrad M. Lawson
Konrad M. Lawson
Meanwhile, "as a means of taking its mind off strife and statehood" "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) "That there are foreigners who seriously think that Japan is on the war-path is extremely annoying to us." and […]
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