Jonathan E. Abel

Rethinking the Past of Conflict, Imagining the Future of Peace in East Asia | Liberal Arts Events The year 2025 marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II and the sixtieth anniversary of Korea-Japan diplomatic normalization, making it an opportune time to reflect upon these two his...

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Wit Happens Book Detail -

Coming soon: wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352595/

百年使われた道具は付喪神になる。まさか俺がそんなものになるとは。そもそも同じパソコンを百年も使う人間がいるなんて普通思わないだろ。百年保つパソコンの方もどうかしている。俺だが。そして俺は半ば滅びかけの人類と銀河にはばたく機械たちの橋渡しを受け持つことになったのである。 #140字小説

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This week! In-person and virtual! Registration is still open for JPP's international symposium "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field" (5/29–5/31)! 🗾 japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...

YouTube video by Wildcat Productions The Human Couch - Short Film

Student film version of the classic by Edogawa Ranpo and maybe creepier than the original: youtube.com/watch?v=rbbE...

Coming… not so soon: press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mode...

Because our sense of imagination about the future is stuck with George Jettson.

Digital Age Symposium

This should be fun. Open to online and in person registrations! calendar.ku.edu/event/digita...

Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Nightmare People are using ChatGPT to create Studio Ghibli–style images. And the backlash is huge.

Prolly won’t work if I say it this way, but… Posting this in hopes of baiting engagement: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Saw a copy of Time of Laughter in the wild at #aas2025 at the @uofmpress.bsky.social table. And reserved!

Come by Digital Humanities Japan today at 12:15! Share your latest project and network with colleagues! #AAS2025

“Samurai, Blerds, and Otaku Hot Girls: Mediating Afro-Japanese Encounters from Yasuke to Megan Thee Stallion” | Liberal Arts Events In this talk, I discuss the representations of Afro-Japanese encounters in digital culture using the case studies of Yasuke and Megan Thee Stallion. Yasuke, a historical figure and Black African samur...

Friends and colleagues at/near Penn State! I'll be giving a public talk hosted by the Humanities Institute on Thursday, March 20th from 3:30-5:00 PM. Would love to see some familiar faces in the crowd as I present some new and ongoing research! events.la.psu.edu/event/mediat...

You got to it before me!!!! Thank you so much for noticing.

Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:

upittpress.org/series/power...

At the AAS in Columbus, CEAL/CJM and NCC will co-host an open meeting on the digitization services by the National Diet Library, Japan to gather feedback on the restrictions on international access. March 13 (Thu) at 20:00. Please forward this to your friends. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Oh no… I killed Duo!

Missed our joint DIJ-DWIH international workshop 'Imagined Futures in Japan & Beyond' www.dijtokyo.org/event/imagin... last October? Video recordings from all six panel sessions are now available on the DIJ's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@DIJTokyo, incl. @hiroosa.bsky.social @jonabel.bsky.social

So AI has gone all Bartleby on me.

Kurodahan Press Checkout out this list on Bookshop

Sad to report that Kurodahan appears to be closing up shop. This press has been an incredible resource for the kinds of Japanese stories unlikely to get translated and published elsewhere—especially, but not exclusively, SF and horror.

Take a look at their backlist soon! I've just stocked up.

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a historical and contemporary point of view. Providing an overview of the historical evolution of public amusement spaces from the early rooftop amusement spaces from the early nineteenth century to the modern multi‑floor and interconnected arcade complexes that characterize the urban fabric of contemporary Japan, the book argues that arcade videogames and their associated practices must be examined in the context in which they are played, situated in the interrelation between the game software, the cabinets as material conditions of play, and the space of the venue that frames the experience. Including three case studies of distinct and significant game centres located in Tokyo and Kyoto, the book addresses of play in public, including the notion of performance and observation as play practices, spatial appropriation, as well as the compartmentalization of the play experience. In treating videogames as sets of circumstances, the book identifies the opportunities for ludic practices that videogame arcades provide in Japan. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars of Game Studies and Digital Media Studies, as well as those of Japanese Culture and Society.

378. SPACE AND PLAY IN JAPANESE VIDEOGAME ARCADES

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@jeremiepgagnon.bsky.social #Arcade #GameStudies #Gaming #Booksky #MediaStudies #Ludology #CulturalStudies #アーケード

I don’t know…. It’s a slippery slope. First, they came for my diaeresis. And I said nothing… just sayin’

And I’d be happy if you started your old podcast up. I guess it won’t happen. But I’m following you anyway.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Ports from the other place (org. posted 12/1/23): "This week we're finishing Urashima Tarō for Kyoto's Toy Film Museum. This charming 1930s paper film animates a well known Japanese fairy tell where Urashima Tarō rescues a turtle and meets (under the sea!) Princess Otohime." #anime #Japan #film

Port from 12/7/23: "We’re pleased to announce a major discovery: a previously unknown 1930s Japanese company making paper films. Here’s a clip from the Tsukiboshi Company & their film Japanese People are Here. More info in English & 日本語 here: kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu/tsukiboshi (1/2)

Mark your calendars!

Carol Gluck's 2024 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture, titled "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Modern Japanese History: Time Past, Present, Future," will be Thursday, 12/5 from 7:00-8:30 pm ET (Friday 12/6 9:00-10:30 am JST)!

REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE: mjha.org/event-5944148

How AI is Changing Art and the Humanities, and To What Ends - Center for the Humanities Art Science Connect presents a two-day interdisciplinary symposium “How AI is Changing Art and the Humanities, and To What Ends” at the CUNY Graduate Center to explore recent developments and uses of ...

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