Another resource for students/historians: froginawell.net/reference/ja... Full text extracted (Sonnet 5.5) from over 500 speeches, treaties, laws, and misc. reports from a selection of (the very pro-Japanese empire) issues of the Tokyo Gazette and Contemporary Japan, mostly 1937-45.

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Apparently there is ”Plan D” from the public: “a reclining watermelon with Penguin’s round eyes and little smile pasted on. (‘Suica’ also means watermelon in Japanese.)” From: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I'm thrilled that Michele Monserrati's excellent article on uses of samurai symbolism by the Italian far-right in the early twentieth century has been featured on JSTOR Daily: daily.jstor.org/why-italian-...

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Huge and hearty congratulations on this honor from @urbanhistorya.bsky.social, Hannah!!!

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So thrilled the must-read BANANAPOCALYPSE by Alyssa Paredes will be out in the wild soon, on the shadow ecologies of Japanese conglomerates on Filipino plantations, with environmental effects of chemical drift, fungal pathogens, polluted effluent #envhist #envhum #enviroanthro

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