I found a great ramen noodle place in the middle of Kichijoji today as I was hunting for dinner in my neighborhood. It is called Tenbunkan (天文館) and both their Kyûshû-style tonkotsu miso ramen and gyôza dumplings were fantastic. I love Japanese ramen. I’m not talking about the kind we survived on as poor college [...]
Very bizarre but interesting search engine which gives you a sort of a concept map for your search with hits spacially distributed. I didn’t include it in my last article on resistance but here are some documents related to General Stroop’s reports on his clearing out of the Warsaw ghetto, and here is a good [...]
I rented some movies to watch while staying warm under a blanket and recovering from a nasty cold. None were any good so I cut them all off soon after they started but by chance I saw that Japanese TV was showing a US movie without dubbing it (for once). It was “The Way of [...]
I am very interested in the retelling of stories of armed resistance against oppressors. This is partly because they inevitably also include a portrayal of collaboration, which is something I expect to be spending a lot of time studying. I recently watched the TV dramatization of the 1943 Jewish ghetto uprising in Warsaw called Uprising. [...]
Chia-ying says I have too many friends. My taiwanese friend from graduate school in New York complained that she never felt like she could get to know me because my social circle was too wide. She said this to me some weeks ago in Taiwan but her words have stuck with me. Chia-ying might be [...]
It is about four in the morning and I am reading through a book on the history of Chinese law for my research on Chinese treason trials. The book, however, is a mainland Chinese work, a bit heavy on the Communist propaganda, entitled A Legal History of the Chinese Revolution (中国革命法制史). I saw plenty of [...]