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First World War Historian based at Kyoto University Japan. Also dabble in a bit of Popular Culture Studies on the side.

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Going to be talking about punk rock and Kyoto on 16 March as part of the Kyoto lectures series. Come join me in person or online

27.02.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just got a copy this week, one chapter in and am thoroughly enjoying it so far.

10.01.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy birthday to me. A mug for a mug.

26.12.2025 01:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Discussing Orientalism and Nihonjinron via the medium of Street Fighter II knockout tournament with my students this morning

17.12.2025 02:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

JSPS visiting fellowship to Japan?

03.12.2025 10:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ordered a copy and it arrived last week much to my delight

03.12.2025 10:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very good, was great with a guide but enough signage for it all to make sense

29.11.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - Dekoloniale StadtfΓΌhrung Alle Touren Komm mit auf unsere Touren in Berlin und finde heraus, wie der Kolonialismus unsere StΓ€dte und Gesellschaften bis heute prΓ€gt. Buche deine individuelle StadtfΓΌhrung – als Einzelperson, im ...

Did you take the Decolonial city tour? www.dekolonialestadtfuehrung.de
I did it in August, well worth a go

29.11.2025 12:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At the Periphery of a World War?, ein Buch von Maria InΓ©s Tato, Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt - Campus Verlag Maria InΓ©s Tato, Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt: At the Periphery of a World War? - Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Europe

It is with great joy that I share the news of the publication of "At the Periphery of a World War?," a collective book that I coordinate with Ana Paula Pires and Jan Schmidt, under @Campusverlag

More info at www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

20.11.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Bongo, no.

15.11.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lunch time noise at the Les Rallizes Denudes exhibit

13.11.2025 04:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ₯‚Eine freudige Nachricht! Unser Sammelband zum kolonialen Erbe der Stadt Hamburg ist nun auch als Open Access erhΓ€ltlich und kann unter nachfolgender Adresse kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. πŸ₯‚
Wir hoffen, dass dies zur Debatte beitrΓ€gt

www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383535018...

06.11.2025 09:56 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

We’re proud to highlight Jiang Zizheng, an early career researcher in history at Kyoto University, who has a particular interest in Japan's racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference whose work discusses how questions of race, diplomacy, shaped China’s diplomatic position.

01.11.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Former student came to my office to ask advice about studying abroad and to inform me that he and his colleagues enjoyed my popular classes last semester, except for the bits of the class where I was talking…

28.10.2025 09:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night

17.10.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Some fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934

09.10.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social

02.10.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m planning to do a lesson on for my popular class to discuss cross over styles from anime. I very much felt the generation gap when watching it, much like people’s dads must have felt when Elvis first appeared on telly

21.09.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...

20.09.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He did quite a few sketches on Italy’s involvement too.

16.09.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social

16.09.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

28.08.2025 08:04 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 7
Lives of the First World War

livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/7852
Nice! Here’s more pictures of Japanese Canadians for your collection! Sachimaro Morooka wrote a lengthy memoir β€˜On to the Arras Front: A Japanese Canadian Soldier in the FWW’ which was republished a few years ago cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1971712...

02.09.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They are surprisingly thorough which is again a plus and a minus

21.08.2025 09:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s great, but has sadly made it much more difficult for me to justify a trip to Geneva to my university admin!

20.08.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you add me please?

17.08.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit

05.08.2025 01:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You’ve sold at least two copies of the book here, one to me and one to our library, if you can get beyond Kyoto we might consider you nationwide

20.06.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My reading for the weekend arrived

20.06.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War.

You can get it for Β£23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425.

Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h

#History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale

17.06.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2