@nathanielmsmith.bsky.social
Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
they said it couldn't be helped, but someone kept believing
09.11.2025 05:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call for nominations for the Richard J. Samuels Dissertation Award in Japanese Studies from the United States-Japan Foundation (USJF). us-jf.org/en/news/usjf...
07.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ketchup, catsup
07.11.2025 05:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
though what he ended up with is certainly not bad, I still wish Lee Pennington took my suggestion for his dissertation/book title
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...
obviously (maybe) sui generis
06.11.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0nice to hear re tuition. I have not a small number of intl students who are interested in improving their Japanese post BA. glad you liked the program!
05.11.2025 23:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Especially for people getting paid in yen it’s rather incredibly expensive. Did you end up getting scholarships and such?
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local academic types:
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
nice condensed McLuhan clip for class this evening
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pco...
enjoyed this new-ish (but finally read by me) piece from Chigusa Yamaura
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
stumbled into an 80s ambient industrial goth experimental music kissa in the Kyushu countryside
Nocturnal Emissions? Current 93? Throbbing Gristle? Controlled Bleeding?
✔️, ☑️, ✔️, and ☑️
(jazz too!)
「激論」に激が多過ぎた論
25.10.2025 05:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thought it was going to be their other chap …
24.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0one of the better sunsets I’ve seen of late
22.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0multi-year Blackwater mercenary seems bad enough, honestly
22.10.2025 01:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ishiba's address on the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war is really worth reading:
japan.kantei.go.jp/content/0001...
potential first husband that was formerly already first husband and is now currently second husband
10.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0well now, that's just Horkheimer and Adorno
06.10.2025 05:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'Twas preordained. With Okawa Ryuho gone, someone new was needed to channel Thatcher
05.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
added to the list
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
Leiden! (via Amsterdam) both for the first time
05.10.2025 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0oh woe the pain of booking hotels in Europe as someone paid in yen
04.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
good workplaces host good deathmetal concerts
01.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.
27.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 668 🔁 221 💬 7 📌 17The article @robfahey.net and I wrote on Sanseito is finally out (open access). We describe the party’s conspiracy worldview and how it shapes its policies and organizational features. I may do a thread to include the work I have done since finalizing the draft.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
gotta say I am with Keene! CIA, fine, but more importantly integral in the formation of spaghetti joint Kabe no Ana
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