永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara

Every once in a while I catch a Dodgers game on TV and first I’m excited to see Ohtani at bat…and then I see him start pitching and I’m catch myself asking for a split second, “Wait, he can do that TOO??? 🤯🤯🤯”

YouTube video by TBS NEWS DIG Powered by JNN 「麻生さんとは貸し借りあった」高市新総裁 逆転勝利のキーマンは麻生最高顧問　1回目の投票では小林氏・茂木氏に協力｜TBS NEWS DIG

Interesting reporting that Aso Taro supposedly instructed his faction to split their votes between Motegi and Kobayashi in round 1, in exchange for the two candidates bringing in votes for Takaichi in round 2.

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お疲れ様でーす！

Takaichi wins! Who wins and who loses from her shocking upset

I’m nearing the limits of my endurance, but I took a first crack at thinking about the winners and losers from Takaichi’s surprising upset Saturday. Much more to come.

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I went to bed during the second round of LDP voting because it was late but also because I had this feeling that Takaichi was going to win after watching the runoff speeches. Koizumi focused on appealing to his colleagues while Takaichi gestured towards the party supporters beyond the auditorium.

【地上波特番同時配信】自民党総裁選 ポスト石破の行方は？小泉進次郎氏、高市早苗氏、林芳正氏、小林鷹之氏、茂木敏充氏から自民党が選ぶ新しいリーダーは？【LIVE】(2025年10月4日) ANN/テレ朝 YouTube video by ANNnewsCH

This is TV Asahi’s live feed of the LDP presidential election but if you rewind you can watch an endless footage of LDP Diet members walking into the Party HQ which is kinda mesmerizing and fascinating in its own way.

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We're less than two hours from the start of voting for the next LDP leader. I made a little cheat sheet.

まあその、シカたがないかもね。

I’ll show myself out.

ネットに「いっちょかみ」した総裁選　自民の世論配慮は「裏目に」：朝日新聞 自民党総裁選が4日に投開票される。投票権は国会議員と約100万人の党員・党友に限られる党内イベントだが、少数与党の状況もあってか、自民党はメディアを通じて一般世論に耳を傾ける姿勢を演出しているように…

新聞社から取材を受けるときというのは、わりと難しいお題が与えられることが多く、今回もけっこうな難題ではありました。

しかも、取材の依頼が来たときと、実際に取材を受けたときとで、状況がかなり違っていて、いろいろと悩みながら話をしました。

というわけで、10月4日19時ぐらいまで読めるURLです。

digital.asahi.com/articles/AST...

LDP presidential candidate telling his audience, "This is where I should be receiving applause."

"Please clap."
(LDP presidential candidate Motegi Toshimitsu edition)

At 1:50~ mark in this clip:
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

I think we underestimate the extent to which the right wing has eroded civil society simply by pulling stunts like this that make any public participation extremely unpleasant.

Crown Prince Hirohito at the Eiffel Tower, 1921.

It wasn't enough that he left us a wealth of outstanding work of his own to seed future scholarship, y'all. He wanted to fund yours too. Bless his soul. Please apply!

前進への反動「バックラッシュ」が生じる時代　米国で加速、日本では：朝日新聞 ■Re:Ron特集「時代のことば」　バックラッシュ　バックラッシュが起きている――。昨今、記事などでよく目にする表現です。英語の「バックラッシュ」（backlash）とは、直訳すると「反動」や「反発」…

昨今、記事などでよく目にするようになった「バックラッシュ」という言葉。
第２次トランプ政権が打ち出した反ＤＥＩ（多様性・公平性・包摂性）の動きもその一つだと指摘されています。
背景や日本への影響について山口智美・立命館大教授に聞きました。
#リロン
#時代のことば
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Hmm...

As it turns out, there really could be way too much respect!

My kids do love it when I make some 御御御汁 for dinner.

ちなみに「おみおつけ」は、「おみ-おつけ【御御御汁・御御御付】（「おみ」は接頭語）味噌汁をいう丁寧語。」とある。ルビなしで「御御御汁」と書かれると、ギョギョギョじると読んでしまいそうだ。

Hahahahahahahahahaha great job Crystal Palace & Nketiah!!!!

2026 JF-GJS Fellowship Program Application Guidelines and Instructions (JF-GJSフェローシップ・プログラム募集要項) | Networking | GAS: Global Asian Studies 2026 JF-GJS Fellowship Program Application Guidelines and Instructions (JF-GJSフェローシップ・プログラム募集要項) Networking. Global Asian Studies

Japan Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at U of Tokyo. (2 years, due on Dec 1, 2025)
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LDP leadership campaign 2025 mascot

Truly

its bold headlands. Its name, it appeared, was Noto; and the name too pleased me. I liked its vowel color; I liked its consonant form, the liquid n and the decisive t. Whimsically, if you please, it suggested both womanliness and will. The more I looked the more I longed, until the desire carried me not simply off my feet, but on to them.

NOTO: AN UNEXPLORED CORNER OF JAPAN. An Unknown. The fancy took me to go to Noto. It seemed a strange fancy to my friends. Yet I make no apology for it; for it was a case of love at first sight. Scanning, one evening, in Tokyo, the map of Japan, in a vague, itinerary way, with the look one first gives to the crowd of faces in a ballroom, my eye was caught by the pose of a province that stood out in graphic mystery from the western coast. It made a striking figure there, with its deep-bosomed bays and

For the love of god Victorian Boston Brahmin weebs stop being weird about Japanese geography challenge. (Percival Lowell edition)

WE'RE SO BACK

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"Why not?"

question for Pacific War historians: I'm looking for reliable figures on the number of Allied airmen captured in Japan or the Pacific theater more broadly.

I've seen 568 mentioned in passing a few places, but can't find a credible source. Any ideas on where I can find one?

ghibli does its homework

A poster for the symposium "Humanistic Approaches to the Study of Premodern Japanese Law" Sept 26-27, 2025, UCLA. It features horizontal excerpts of a Japanese painting showing three men in kimono of various colors sitting on the left, some pine trees and clouds in the middle, and a man kneeling reading from a piece of paper on the right.

Japan Past & Present is pleased to announce that online registration is now open for Japan Past & Present’s symposium, "Humanistic Approaches to the Study of Premodern Japanese Law," to be held at UCLA with virtual streaming from September 26–27, 2025. ⚖️ japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...