慰安婦問題を扱った映画をめぐる法廷闘争 問われる日本の大学の研究倫理
新型コロナウイルスによる緊急事態となるまで、北米や欧州各地で上映されていた慰安婦問題の映画がある。 『主戦場－The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue（慰安婦問題の主戦場）
Author Archives for Earl Kinmonth
Earl H. Kinmonth is professor emeritus at Taisho University. Before moving to Japan in 1997, he was reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield (1989-1997) and professor of history at the University of California-Davis (1977-1989). His research is in the history and sociology of Japanese education from the Meiji period to the present, with an emphasis on 1930s-1940s Japan. He is a Japanese citizen and writes commentary in English and Japanese, and does Japanese English translation. He is currently writing a book on foreign media coverage of Japan under the working title Japan in the Foreign Imagination.
[Mythbusters] Voting in Japan: Pencils-and-Paper System Isn’t Broken, Don’t Fix It
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign commentators have been ridiculing the Japanese people for reliance on retro
Culture
[Mythbusters] Reporting — and Exploiting — the Tragic Death of Hana Kimura
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed […]
[Mythbusters] Paper Jam: Foreign Reporting is Short on Facts About Fax in Japan
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, [&he
【神話を斬る】独善的な外国特派員が人々を不快にさせる自由を要求する
日本外国特派員協会（以下、FCCJ）は5月21日、会報誌『ナンバーワン新聞（NUMBER 1 SHIMBUN)』4月号の表紙に掲載したデザインをウェブサイトから削除すると発表した。このデザインは東京五輪の大会エンブレムと新型コロナウ
Court Battle Over Comfort Women Film Taints Japanese University’s Research Ethics Record
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened [
Coronavirus
[Mythbusters] Self-righteous Foreign Correspondents in Japan Claim Freedom to Be Offensive
On May 21, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) announced that it had removed from its website the [&helli
Coronavirus
[Mythbusters] Why Trash-Talk Japan and Feed the NYT’s Blatantly Racist Editorializing?
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only […]
Sakura 🌸
In Tokyo Neighborhoods, Floral Beauty Amid the Beastly Pandemic
Spring in Japan is usually a season for flower viewing. It’s a seasonal activity that attracts Japanese, foreign resid
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] ‘Comfort Women’: The Chilling Effect of Letting the Courts Settle Historical Issues
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the […]
Coronavirus
[Mythbusters] Cliché Journalism Infects Foreign Reporting on Japan
English language coverage of the coronavirus issue shows once again the poor quality of English language reporting on
Books
BOOK REVIEW | ‘China and Japan Facing History’ by Ezra F. Vogel
When I requested a review copy of this book, I expected something rather similar to Japan As Number […]